1.3.8 and later GUI mode VST plug-in support

[Gale Andrews]

Audacity 1.3.8 and later now loads VST plug-ins by default if they are in given locations where Audacity searches. Previously, Audacity only loaded VST plug-ins if the user added the optional VST Enabler to the Audacity plug-ins folder. By default, VST effects now load in GUI mode with a fully-featured interface, but if preferred, the former generic, tabular interface can be selected on the Effects tab of Preferences. VST instrument (VSTi) plug-ins are not supported.

For best support of VST plug-ins, please make sure you are running the latest Beta version of Audacity, obtainable from our download page. For full details of VST support, visit our Wiki page.

The only VST instrument plug-in now known to cause an error in current Beta versions is:

* BFD (an error message at launch occurs, after which Audacity works normally. No further fixes beyond that seem possible).

If you do not want to use VST effects in Audacity, go to the Effects tab of Preferences, uncheck "VST effects" under "Enable", click OK and restart Audacity.



Gale

[minerl]

Thank You Gale, your comments were very helpful. 1.3.9 seems to run just fine. It still tells me the BFD folder is invalid when I start the program but I just cancel through the messages and Audacity loads and works fine. At this point I'm happy because now I can at least make it work.posting.php?mode=reply&f=37&t=11534&sid=130cb81e5f18e686324f14e0d384421f#

[Gale Andrews]

1.3.9 seems to run just fine. It still tells me the BFD folder is invalid when I start the program but I just cancel through the messages and Audacity loads and works fine. At this point I'm happy because now I can at least make it work.posting.php?mode=reply&f=37&t=11534&sid=130cb81e5f18e686324f14e0d384421f#

Thanks. The Nightly Build (1.3.9) has been updated again so if you get a chance you're welcome to try it and see if you're still getting these messages. It would be better if we could kill them off if we could. http://www.audacity.homerow.net/index.php?dir=mac%2F (bottom file on the list).


Gale

[AEN007]

2October2009

Greetings.
I recently discovered (& very much welcome) the enhanced Audacity VST support.
I am experiencing a small Audacity VST admin problem.
Audacity lists VST effects that are not on my c:\ drive (anymore).
I have tried re-scanning to no avail.
Maybe it would be nice if users could tell Audacity from where to load VST dlls?
I hope someone can/will reply and tell me how to remove from Audacity
the VST effects which Audacity shows that are not on my c:\ drive.
Audacity lists one of the VST effects twice.
Right now I only have one VST.dll on my c:\ drive.

I've also contacted the Audacity team about Audacity
not being able to run multi-step VST plug-ins properly.

Any helpful replies/insights appreciated.
Thank you.
Regards,
AEN
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[Gale Andrews]

I recently discovered (& very much welcome) the enhanced Audacity VST support.
I am experiencing a small Audacity VST admin problem.
Audacity lists VST effects that are not on my c:\ drive (anymore).
I have tried re-scanning to no avail.

If you look in the README.txt accompanying 1.3.9, you'll see that it was a known issue that "VST effects always remain in Effect menu even when rescanned and no longer available". If you look at the online version of the release notes you will see that this issue has been fixed in our latest development code, so will be fixed in the next 1.3.10 Release. I have sent you a link to download an Alpha version of 1.3.10.

Maybe it would be nice if users could tell Audacity from where to load VST dlls?

We'll note your request, but ability to choose which of the supported locations to load from, or to choose a custom location is not likely until after the next Stable 2.0 Release.

Audacity lists one of the VST effects twice. Right now I only have one VST.dll on my c:\ drive.

If you are using 1.3.9 that should only be because you have a second copy of the .dll in one of the locations Audacity searches for it (see my main post in this topic). If you are using 1.3.8 it may be because you still have the VST Enabler in the Audacity Plug-Ins folder. I suggest you try 1.3.10 Alpha.

I've also contacted the Audacity team about Audacity
not being able to run multi-step VST plug-ins properly.

AEN007 is referrring to REAfir (used in "Subtract" Noise Removal mode) from:
http://reaper.fm/files/reaplugs.zip

We may at some future time be able to allow modeless effects so that you can change the selection area in the waveform and preview a different area without closing the efffect. That would solve part of the problem with REAfir (and allow our own Noise Removal to be run without closing and re-opening it, too). The plug-ins in this REA bundle are of course also designed to be used with real-time input so you can change the effect parameters as you play the audio. Audacity does not support real-time plug-ins yet.


Gale