Cubase 14: Enabling VST2 Plugins

In this video, I look at how you can enable VST2 plugins in Cubase 14, where they are disabled by default.

Section Timings:
00:00 - Intro
01:21 - Enabling VST2 Plugins
04:22 - Summary

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[j-genesiz]

Thank you for this. I finally installed Cubase 14 today and panicked when many plugins were disabled.

[GreenWaveStudiosRusEkb]

Oh my god, this video just saved me! 🙏 I've been struggling with plugins for a few days now, and I couldn't figure it out. And this is such a miracle! 🤯

The title of the video is a godsend! All the steps are shown in such detail that even I managed without problems! 🎉

Now I have all the plugins working like clockwork and I can safely continue creating! 🤩 Thank you so much to the author for this masterpiece! 🙏

[StevoLloyds]

Thank you, I got my Camel Audio plugins back.

[mvo]

You're a Godsend Darren, thanks for that. Hope you are well on the mend.🍷🍷

[ollieknight]

From the UK and that got a big LOL out of me. Shocking that people didn't realise, you can't always believe the side of a bus. haha

[buckycore]

I'm actually beyond excited about this update, lemme tells ya

[theotiemponuevo]

Muchisimas gracias por este gran aporte!!! Bendiciones!

[chaparrostudioflow]

gracias aparecieron mis plugin en VST2, me suscribí a tu canal saludos.

[vincentsoye]

Thanks. Didn't even see that option at the bottom of the plugin manager.

[htmn]

What do you do if the "VST2" button doesn't appear in the plugin manager window?

[tez]

What’s the latest version of Cubase that will run VST2’s?

[Azfurita]

I dont have that option, How can make it available? thanks for your time

[jeweldirks]

thanks much. Going to Cubase 14, some of my nonCubase VST3 instruments and FX weren't recognized (eg Phase Plant & Cableguys). After the Studiosetup scanning, they popped up in the list of VST2 stuff. I also went in and rescanned my folders from MediaBay. Now they appear in the project. But it's disturbing that those particular VST3 weren't showing until I did all this. Since I did both those steps THEN checked to see if they were available, I'm not sure whether it was the StudioSetup step or the MediaBay rescan step that fixed it. ? And thanks for that tip about keeping "on" to show the three strips for VST3 reference--I did panic when I didn't see those. Thanks so much!

[chaddonal]

So, hardware based UAD plugins may not be used natively on silicon Mac but may be re-enabled in Windows 11?

[djdrwatson]

6:20 Sunny uplands with rainbows and unicorns, where we hold all the cards! 😂

[SwetStet]

Easy solution is to use vst system link, i still use 32 bit plug-in instruments and vst 2, even running tc electronic powercores this way. Perfect.

[geroldwaefler]

I will never give up my old Absynth 5. There are so many very good sounds who you can never find in other Plugins.
Now i have find out my iCon QConProX Controllsuface is in Cubase 14 at the moment no more working. If Cubase 14 renders
my QConProX useless, then i will stay with Cubase 13 for Ever !!!

[ErixSamson]

VST3 is available since 2011. Plugins vendros had time to upgrade them.

[CirTap]

I believe they wrote in a post that vst2 support in "steinberg hosts" will be available for another 24 months (~ fall 2026) after the release of cubase 14. I hope by then I can migrate my older projects that rely on vst2 with no vst3 alternative available in some shape or form.presumably I have to render the results into audio tracks.
this feels as wrong as working destructively in davinci resolve, photoshop or affinity photo.
there is a difference between tweaking the midi data feeding a VSTi and turn some knows to change the sound or working with baked audio data that has basically lost it's origin and history.

[jaylevzi]

Metaplugin will allow VST2 in a VST3 wrapper. Steinberg can't force them out completely.