Audacity 1.3 beta is not displaying bluecat stereo chorus

[Mark H]

Hi -
Love audacity, think it's great, as well as the people involved (my 16-year old son found it for me). Tried to find the answer before bugging you with this problem:
I have Windows 7, 32-bit, Audacity 1.3 beta, went to bluecat and downloaded bluecat stereo chorus (Win VST version), and installed. In my adacity 1.3 beta (unicode) folder, in the plug-ins folder, is a folder titled blue cat stereo chorus VST data, which shows 2.54 mgb size.
In edit - preferences - effects tab of audacity, I have clicked "rescan VST effects next time audacity is started". Then I have closed and restarted audacity. I have clicked that tab and restarted a few times.
And yet.......
Bluecat stereo chorus is not showing up on the list of effects.
Any ideas?

Thanks again for this fantastic software, and your help.

[kozikowski]

Just a note that because it's a VST effect is no guarantee that it's going to work under Audacity. Most of them will probably work. I don't have a sample of one that does. I probably should.
Koz

[steve]

Bluecat Stereo Chorus is reported to work with Audacity http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/VST_Plug-ins

in the plug-ins folder, is a folder titled blue cat stereo chorus VST data, which shows 2.54 mgb size.

There should be a file called Blue Cat Stereo Chorus VST.dll in the Audacity plug-ins folder. That's the actual VST plug-in.
The "Blue Cat Stereo Chorus VST.data" just contains the manual and bit map images for the plug-in "skin".

[Mark H]

Eureka!
Thank you Steve, finding the dll file was the key...... I have an "audacity" folder as well as an "audacity 1.3 (unicode)" folder (for some reason) - it wound up in the audacity folder..... should've looked there, had that problem with the bluecat download to begin with - sometimes you get deeper and deeper (and deeper) into a situation and forget.
Now if I can just get the stereo chorus to be stereo...... I apply it to a track, it's mono. I try converting the mono track to stereo, still mone. I've set the stereo to 100%, wet/dry, still mono. I'm afraid I've got mono.
Is there a trick to making stereo plug-ins truly stereo?

[kozikowski]

Duplicate your mono track so two of them appear on the timeline. Black Arrow Pulldown > Make Stereo Track.

Black Arrow Pulldown > Split Stereo Track. If you play that, it will appear flat and "mono." Apply the Bluecat Mono effect to only one of the two tracks. Play that and it will have pronounced Stereo effect.

Rejoin to stereo for exporting.

Koz

[steve]

I have an "audacity" folder

That's your old Audacity 1.2.x folder.
If you no longer use Audacity 1.2.x you can delete that folder You may want to see if Audacity 1.2.x is listed in "Add Remove Programs" and if it is, un-install it before you delete the folder. If it's not listed you can just delete the folder.