this tracktion waveform 11 tutorial looks at how to install VST plugins in
tracktion waveform free and waveform Pro on Windows 10 I'm Zane and on this
channel I do weekly audio tech tips tutorials and reviews to help you
conquer the tech and unleash your creativity now if you haven't checked
out my tracktion waveform free tutorial for beginners I'll be sure to link to
that in the description below so you can check that out after and maybe get a few
other tips and tricks but right now let's jump into this waveform 11
tutorial so first you'll need some VST plugins to install I'm going to use a
great free plug-in from plugin boutique called voltage nucleus and I'll also be
using MT powered drum kit - which is a free drum plugin I'll include links to
both of them in the description now one thing to keep in mind is that waveform
11 is a 64-bit program so when you're getting new plugins make sure you get
the 64-bit version now let's first look at installing MT powered drum kit - so
when you get it it's going to be in a zip file like this double-click on it
and then go into the folder and you'll see you have some folders and some files
in here I always recommend to read the installation when you see one of these
read means they're usually pretty quick to read and they tell you what to do
this one doesn't have an installer so we have to take this dll file and also in
the installation it said we also have to move this PDK file into our plugins
folder so just highlight both of them right-click copy and then go to your
plugins folder typically it's C program files VST
plugins if you have a different plugins folder use that if you don't even have a
plugins folder yet you can create this one here VST plugins in your C program
files that's the typical spot that plugins want to install to
and when you have your folder you can choose to keep yours a little more
organized if you want you can have them organized by effects instruments brand
name whatever you want and it might make things a little easier to find in
waveform as waveform does see these subfolders so I have one called free and
that's where I'm going to put this plugin so then you would just right
click paste and you see I have my plugin in there so
if you download a plug-in and it doesn't have an installer but you see a dll file
in there typically you have to move that dll file into your VST plugins folder
and always read the installation readme if there is one in there and some
plugins include both the 32-bit and 64-bit version and they will say 32 and
64 on the DLL file so make sure you grab the 64 bit one now let's look at
installing this other plugin so you just double click on it to install it just
like any other program then click Next here agree to their terms you might want
to read that click Next and here you have the option
to install the standalone application so you don't need to install it in your DAW
you could actually just run it on its own you can choose to install that you
can also choose to install the VST to plug-in and the VST 3 plugin now I
usually choose to install both of those and it also gives you the option to
install the Pro Tools plug-in I'm not going to install that I'll just install
these two click Next and now it's going to ask you where your VST plug-in folder
is and as you can see it already knows where mine is so if yours isn't there
you would just click Change and then scroll to wherever your folder is in
here click OK and then click Next make sure everything looks good here and
when you're ready you would click Next to install so that's the installation
now we need to get waveform 11 to see your plugins so you'll want to go up to
settings and then go down to plugins right here then click on the scanning
and sorting button go to scan for new or updated VST plugins click on that and it
brings this select folders to scan window up and you can see I already have
my folders in here and you might have some folders in there as well
if you already have yours in there you're good to go if you don't you want
to click on this plus sign here and then you would navigate to see Program Files
VST plugins or whatever your plug-in folder might be and once you're there
click ok and then you want to click on scan
and if you see something like this pop up at the end this usually means you
have 32-bit plugins in your plug-in folder or you have it aim to look at the
32-bit plug-in folder if you have separate ones for that so if you want
waveform to automatically search for plugins every time you install a new one
go to file locations and then in the plugins section make sure you have
automatically checked for newly added plugins checked like this
and now every time you install a new plugin you're going to get a pop-up
saying waveform has detected a new plugin
would you like to scan it now you click scan and your new plugins added now
let's look at using our plugin so open up a project or create a new project
then on whatever track you want to use the plugin go over to this section over
here right click click on add new plugin find your plug-in folder
and there's my mt power drum kit too and if you want to use your midi keyboard to
control this you would just click over here make sure your MIDI keyboard
selected as the input and now you can control it with your MIDI keyboard and
you can even add effects plugins after your instrument plugin so you just right
click there again go to add new plugin
and if your plugin installs before the instrument you can just click and drag
and let go so it comes after the instrument and now you have a plug-in on
the same track and you can keep adding as many plugins as you like to the list
here let's also look at the other plugin we installed so right click on another
track add new plug-in
and here's that free voltage nucleus plug-in that we installed and this one
is huge and it's really cool I'm going to make another tutorial going into more
detail about making music using just virtual instruments so be sure to watch
for that one if you want even more free VST plugins click here for 30 of them or
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simple green tech I'm Zane keep creating and we'll talk soon