you've probably downloaded a plugin and found out that it's available in
many different formats like vst vst2 vst3
au, aax 64-bit 32-bit and if you're new to music production
you're probably pretty confused as to which one you should install on your
computer in this video i'm going to go over some
of the differences between the formats and hopefully help you decide which one
you need to install on your computer i'm zane welcome to simple green tech
where i do weekly audio tech tips tutorials
and reviews to help you conquer the tech and unleash your creativity now if
you've watched my channel for a while you've probably seen me talk about
plugins quite a bit and one of the questions that comes up
quite often is which version of the plugin do i need to
install well what it can come down to can be
based on the digital audio workstation or daw that you're using
the operating system that you're using and maybe even your computer
if you're a pc user on windows 7 and up and maybe even some older versions of
windows and your daw is 64 bit like fl studio
ableton live 10 or higher cubase cakewalk waveform reaper something along
those lines you're going to want to use a 64-bit
vst3 and or vst2 plugin
basically if your daw is 64-bit you should be going with a 64-bit plugin
and at this time on pc vst 3 is the best option as steinberg have stopped support
for vst2 and they're trying to get everyone moved over to the vst3 format
and i would say new vst3 format but it's been around for over 10 years now so
it's not exactly new most manufacturers are offering their plugins in both vst2
and vst3 formats in 64-bit so at this time you can install whichever
one you prefer but vst3 may help your computer's
performance a little bit if you're enjoying this video so far and
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helps my channel out and i appreciate it so much now if you're using a 32-bit
operating system or just using a 32-bit daw
you're going to want to install the 32-bit version of the vst plugin
now if you're unsure if your daw is 32 or 64-bit
head over to the manufacturer's website and you should be able to find out from
there now if you're on a 64-bit pc you should
really be using a 64-bit daw as it's going to allow you to use
more of your system's ram and it will give you better performance
so i just talked about vst2 and vst3s now let's look at the aax format
basically if you're using pro tools as your digital audio
workstation and you're on a mac or a pc use the aax
version of your plugin you might also want to install the vst version in case
you have a second daw on your computer i've noticed that pro tools users
often have a second or third daw installed on their computer so
be sure to install the aax and the vst version of the plugin so you can use it
in whatever daw you're using now if you're a mac user and you're
using any other digital audio workstation that's not pro tools
you can use the au format and this is basically like the vst format
but it's exclusive to mac i think most daws
on mac allow you to use au and vst so you can choose whichever one you prefer
and i'm not a mac user so i don't know if there's a big benefit to using au
over vst but one thing to keep in mind if you plan on collabing with anyone who
uses a windows computer you may want to use vsts as that will
allow them to use the same plugins that you do when you're sharing projects
now there is an older plugin format that may pop up
every now and then and it is rtas or r-t-a-s and rtas
used to be the exclusive pro tools format before
they went with aax so unless you're using a very
old version of pro tools i think version 9 and
under you don't need to worry about rtas if you want to check out some of the
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