What Is a VST?

In this video, Sweetwater‘s Mitch Gallagher dissects the term VST as it applies in music while detailing the different types of VST plug-ins used today. Check it out!

0:00 – Intro
0:28 – A Closer Look at VST
1:10 – The Ongoing VST Story
2:32 – VST Plug-ins
2:55 – VST Instruments
3:14 – VST MIDI Effects
3:28 – The Wrap-up

#Sweetwater

[sweetwater]

Learn all about VST with Mitch Gallagher! 🤘

[artoix]

Wow! That's a hugely compressed chunk of knowledge, thanks for this awesome video that closed so many gaps for me in just 4 minutes! 👏

[patrickarend]

Excellent video.
About three years ago, i decided to ditch hardware recording and get into DAW recording.
Once i got passed the steep learning curve, my life changed forever.
I still have a few pieces of hardware, but now i work in the box (CUBASE 12).
My musical life has never been better.
As much as i love a good hardware synth for replicating real world instruments (bread n butter), a VST can go much farther than a hardware synth patch.

[thaexception]

One of the reasons I chose Steinberg’s Cubase when first learning music production around 2010.

[BetweenTheBuriedAndD]

Great video Mr. Gallagher. You should start giving them all funny endings, like the you did in the bass trap video.

[RowanAlexanderMusic]

Thanks for the info Sweetwater, love these educational videos😃😃✌🏼✌🏼💯💯

[Nowandthen-zen]

Gallagher , pro tips, Happy St Patricks day ✌🏻🍀

[martynfidler]

Really interesting and well explained, thanks

[silvershooter]

Great! I learned some new things. Thanks.
🙂

[ComputerCurry]

Great voice, and research. Congrats. U r the man. Thanks Sweetwater. My dad loves your firm's approach to marketing and customer service.

[EnochGitongaKimathi]

We need a VST standard equivalent for audio interfaces and digital mixers.

[dannyvalentino]

Now for the $64, 000 question. What is the difference between a VST and an AU (Audio Unit)?

[armanx]

So basically everyone calls everything VST, effects are vst, instuments are vst, midi processors are vst 🙄

[squidskunk]

iv spent more money on vst & vsti than i have on my daw.

[apostolicbible]

What is a VST? Why not answer the question rather than give a history lesson? Where do you get a VST plugin? How do I add a VST plugin to my computer which is a Mac in my case. How do app add the plugin for a DAW to use it? More detail would ge nice such as, Here is where you can download or acquire a VST plugin, and this is how you add it to your Mac, and this is how you can add them in GarageBand, or in my case Screenflow. Thanks.

[lescobrandon]

Just think that synth snobs think their Jupiter 8 and Moog is more advanced than the PC or MAC. I call that delusional. Also anyone other than Capitol Records that spend $20, 000 on studio monitors is a freaking re re too. Love ya Sweetwater you treat me like a king.