I’m new to Audacity, although not entirely new to audio editing.
I searched the web for any help, but only found tutorials stating the obvious without any solution.
For some reason, no VST plug-in I tried to install shows up under the Effects tab.
I added them to the Plug-Ins folder inside of the Audacity installation and to the VSTPlugins folder inside Programfiles.
Restartet Audacity after checking the “search for new plugins” box, Audacity opens a new window showing the plug-ins, I press okay and done.
But when I click on the Effects tab, only the original effects show up.
Audacity 2.0.6 supplied by us does not have the text “Search for new plugins” in Effects Preferences. The checkbox to enable is “Rescan VST effects next time Audacity is started”. Please make sure you obtained 2.0.6 here http://audacityteam.org/download/windows.
Audacity does not support VST3 or VST instruments. Also, Audacity on Windows is a 32-bit application. So even though you have 64-bit Windows 7, you must use 32-bit VST plugins with Audacity.
Sorry, yeah the box says “Rescan VST effects next time Audacity is started”.
I tried 32 bit plugins, still doesn’t show 'em. They’re not VSTi by the way.
Okay, for some reason all the plug-ins I downloaded must’ve been faulty.
I tried it again with a different one and that works.
I’m sorry for the inconvinience and wanna thank you for the nice help!
Must’ve been really bad luck or something.
I did everything right, including the mentioned checkboxes.