Ultimate Guide To Installing VST/AU/AAX Plugins

hello and welcome to a high production with me Rory in this episode I'll be showing you how to properly install a VST and au plugins are getting a lot of questions regarding how to fix an errors so I'm going to show you a step-by-step guide how to install them to stay tuned [Music] okay so this is a tutorial how to install plugins I get numerous questions basically asking me about how to store what various different audio units and different VST so I'm just going to be new this guide to then solve all your problems and overcome any issues that you might be having so I thought what might be good to start off with is actually download a couple of free plugins and we'll go through the installation process together so the best place to get a bunch of free plugins is in my opinion plug-in boutique comm they have hundreds of free available downloads of various different processing plugins and since and other effects like that if you want to find out where this section is you go to plug-in boutique calm calm free and if you click that you get a drop down menu and it's already sorted into categories for you so then I've logged into my account it's free to set up an account and then I've just added all these to my downloads section here under free products so as you can see we've got OTT we've got the towel chorus I've also got an auto filter as well so what I'm going to do I'm just going to double check there's no other versions available and then I'm simply just going to click download on each one of these and then for this instance it's going to take you to the actual manufacturers website and then just hear Mac VST audio unit an AIX download so to click that and our download begins we can now close that window and then again last but not least Auto filter in a click and download there as well so now that we're fully downloaded we can shut down Chrome and then if we head over to our downloads section we can then see all our downloads there so we're gonna start off with the free ones at first we will start off with this tel chorus installer here so the difference between pkg of files and dot zip files dot zip is basically it's compressed the files within that so all it's gonna do when you double click that is an open up the file and then it's gonna reveal what's inside a dot pkg file will actually install the files for you so I II the audio units and the VST s so this is probably the most simple way to do it so we'll double click on that and then you're welcomed with an installation guide something if we click continue and then continue again just agree the terms and conditions and then here you can see what you're installing so the top one is an audio unit the second one down as a VST and third one down is and ax so audio unit is basically Mac only if you like this is a coding architecture that's developed specifically for the Mac VSC is cross compatible so you can use it for Mac and for Windows again with ax but this is only more or less read by digital design software so IE Pro Tools so you don't necessarily need ax if you don't have Pro Tools but it's well worth having VST audio unit say if you only got Cubase you're gonna be wanting using vsts but if you've got logic and Ableton I highly recommend installing both a you and VST so then we're gonna click continue here and then you're just gonna choose where you want to install it so we want to basically install it on our startup drive and what I mean by startup drive is the drive that we've got our operating system installed on so ie mine is called the Mac HD so we're gonna install on that I'm just gonna type in our passwords and then it's gonna store it all for us so then click close and we could probably move that to trust because we no longer need it we are going to check though that it's installed properly but I'll install these other two free plugins first and then we'll get to making sure that everything is in its right place so next up is the audio filter the lock you mention it's a dot zip file so it's only going to reveal what's inside the folder it's not an actual script to install it for you so if you get a bit confused when you double clicking on the dot zip files and nothing's really happening it's not welcoming you with an installer window that is perfectly normal so you can see in the dock zip it's actually revealed a dot pkg file so a package file so it is going to run the installer for us so like we did with the chorus we can then just run the Installer click and continue and then install and like we did previously just type in your passwords and it will install it all for you again we can move that one to the trash so just so that you're aware of what you're actually downloading on the website of plug-in boutique calm when you download it just ensure you have this Apple icon clicked here before I edited the video we did accidentally downloaded Exe file which is the execution file for Windows so what you're going to be welcomed with when you download the correct one so the ones specifically for Mac you're gonna get dmg file now this is a mountable disc file for your system so if we click up there we're going to notice it's going to open up on the left hand side here so I went to check the volume so you see it's now installed there which then reveals the dot pkg file so again we're gonna run that and store this one click agree and then install top in your passwords and you are good to go so I can move that one to the trash as well okay so we've run through all the different package files and the installers I mean they're pretty easy to use you'll be encounter with the situation like I'm going to show you next where you've downloaded a plugin and you've got all these different file types so component DPM VST dollfie SC 3 and dot aax plug-in now the dot this first one here the DX is more for pro tools and avid tend to use that alongside DPM as well doc component is your audio unit so that's Mac is specific dot VST and dot V SC 3 are a cross compatibility between Mac and Windows more often not VST and obviously three are supporting element to a doc component in the Mac world but in Windows you can run them on their own so the easiest way to install these and I'm going to show you where to install them more importantly is if you just open up another Finder window next to it then you're gonna go to your Mac HD so you start up disk or whatever you've called it and then you go to library and then we're gonna do this ax plug-in first of all because we do have Pro Tools installed on this machine then we gonna go to application support avid then we're gonna go over to audio plugins and then you'll see all the other aax plugins there so simply just drag that drop it inside that window and that's is that done next up we're gonna do the dot DPM because it's a similar format ie the avid use it so we are then gonna go down to Digidesign this is where the dot DPM file extensions go so did you design plugins and you see here you got all you other DPMS here as well and drop that in there so you can see the breadcrumb down the bottom here Macintosh HD over to the library application support did you design plugins and then or in there for the dock component VST la vie est three this is a bit more straightforward we're gonna go to Macintosh HD library gonna go to audio and then we're gonna go to plugins so you can see here all the different file extensions you might see a little bit extra than what you might have where you might have something slightly different but you will always have the component folder the VST folder and the VST three folder as well if you don't then you need to probably reinstall your DOW so it does produce those files and folders so we've got the doc component here so put two and two together we're gonna put it in the components folder there so you can see the rest of the stuff that we have in here already so we're just gonna drop that in there and then we're gonna click back we've got our VST next so then we're gonna drop it in VST find a blank space and drop it in there but we go to vs2 three and then there we go we are going to drop it in there so that is the manual way to install plugins now you might have a few problems so if you start at video W in locking logic or Ableton chances are it might not be able to find the plug-in and the top reason which I tell all my viewers and subscribers when they come through the problem is you're probably installing a 32-bit plug-in on a 64-bit operating system so it's just not going to show it's just not going to work so one of the great bits of software that I use personally is 32-bit lives by sound radix now this is a great plugin it wraps all of your previous 32-bit plugins in a 64-bit architecture so that means your DOW will then be able to read it there are a lot of plugins around at the moment that are already in 64-bit so nine times out of ten you probably won't have to worry about this so then what's gonna happen is you're gonna start this up this automatically going to scan all your plugins and then what's going to happen is I'll show you sort of a reverse scenario as to what's gonna happen it's all unwrapped that one top in our password and then it will unwrap that so you see on status there it says 32-bit only so when you open up this bit of software you simply click on resurrect and then it's resurrecting the plug-in it will almost install a 64-bit version of that newly created plug-in in your proper our bank and then it will start to work then what we're gonna do is then go in to logic and then it'll have a little hunt around for some extra plugins that's just scanning a few of the audio units there then when we started up logic we're gonna go to new just create a completely blank session so yet nothing on that audio track then we're gonna go to Logic Pro 10 down to preferences and then down to plug-in manager your one might be word its lot a different might be audio unit manager but for this for me is plug-in manager then you want to double check the plugins that you've installed so they'll typically be by manufacturer down the bottom here so we know we introduced and installed a towel at plug in there so there's our chorus plug-in and it's successfully validated so that means it's going to work then another one that we installed was the sound effects so one of us the son EQ that's it so that's the EQ that we've just didn't basically installed manually so we know that that one's working as well so let's go down find these and we'll fire them up just to double-check that they are all working the Sonique you have a look in mono and there we have it our plug-in is working perfectly so if you're finding a plug-in that isn't available chances are another little tip is that you've got your channel in mono and it might just be a stereo only plug-in so what you might notice there is that the tell chorus plug-in is not showing because we currently have a mono channel and also your chorus is a stereo enhancing effect so then if we click that into a stereo field and then click on audio fix go on audio units then we will notice that our chorus plug-in is now available so there we have our tower chorus effect that is a little bit of a tricky one and a bit of a difficult one to figure out you're probably trying to think about a problem with a plug-in a bit too in-depth but sometimes all it is is that you've got your channel in mono instead of stereo so of hope I've answered a few questions there on how to install plug-ins there are a whole host of problems that can occur when installed plugins if you've got any problems then please drop them in the comment section below and I will be more than happy to try and help you if you want to go the fast route then send us a screenshot of your error to info at hyper production comm and I will be more than happy to try and help you further that way as well if you've learned anything from this video please give us 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Channel: Hyper Production

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Length: 11min 42sec (702 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 07 2017