Taking out effects from the Effects menu.

[Michel]

How should one proceed in order to delete unwanted effects from the Effect menu ?


Many thanks

[steve]

Effects that are above the line in the list can not be deleted as they are built into the program.
Effects that are listed below the line may be removed by deleting (or moving) the corresponding file from the Plug-ins folder which is in the Audacity program folder.

[Michel]

Steve ,

i tried deleting all entries in the PlugIns directory but to no avail ; the entries that i don't need are still appearing !
In the administrator profile however , i don't have this problem .

Thanks for helping !

[steve]

Can you give some details.

Exactly which version of Audacity?
What is the installation location?
Do you have more than one copy of Audacity installed?
Which effects do you want to remove?
Any other details that may be relevant?

[Michel]

Hello again ,


-Audacity v. 1.3.9 / Windows Vista Ultimate
-Audacity is installed for the 2 users of my pc ; 1 install for both profiles ( Administrator/Standard account )
- i have 3 fxs from Cakewalk i would like to get rid of i.e

1) Cakewalk: bitmeter
2) Cakewalk: Boost11
3) Cakkewalk: channels tools

These 3 won't work when i click on them ; in my administrator profile, they don't appear, but they do in my standard profile .
Notice that i have the same number of entries in my plugin directory ; why is it that these 3 undesirable fxs appear in my standard profiles but not when starting Audacity in the Administrator profile ?

Again , thanks for your help !

[steve]

-Audacity v. 1.3.9 / Windows Vista Ultimate

Well that confused me - this is the Audacity 1.2.x part of the forum.

You can disable all VST effects from the "Effects" tab in Audacities Preferences.

[Michel]

Hello,

de-activating the VSTs worked ; the undesirable ones are not appearing anymore.

Questions ;

- As i understand it , there is no specific directory for Vst effects correct ?
- If all the added Vst fxs always appear in the " Plugins " directory , how is one supposed to recognize them if one need to delete some of them while keeping others ?
- why is it that in the " Administrator " profile the VST option is not de-activated and still the un-desirable fxs don't appear ?

- Steve, do you think i should use the 1.3.9 forum for further questionning regarding this topic ?

In any case , many thanks to you !

[steve]

VST's can be in any of several directories.
It is normal to install Audacity effects in the Audacity Plug-ins folder, but VSTs often use other folders.

VSTs are a bit of a special case and individual selection of VST effects is difficult to implement (VST support in Audacity is still very new, so is likely to improve in later versions). For other types of effect (Ladspa and Nyquist effects) it is usually easy to recognise what each one is from its name (for example the "Vocoder" effect is called "vocoder.ny"). These types of effects will always be in the plug-ins folder, so managing them is easy.