How To: Installing Plugins on Windows

In this video, I look at how to install plugins (Instruments and Effects) on Windows systems, allowing you to vastly increase your sonic palette - often for free!

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Section Timings:
0:00 Intro
2:22 Using an Installer
4:03 Checking The Plugin
4:58 VST2 Plugins
5:53 .DLL Installation
6:46 VST2 Plugin Location
9:45 Cubase Plugin Settings
12:15 VST3 Plugins
14:08 Summary

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[dewlay]

Very helpful video re VST plugins, Thank You :)

[charliesalter]

Really, really helpful video! Music-making virgin here, so everything is like Chinese to me, so I really didn't understand the types of VST and how to install and access them, so this video covered everything needed! Cheers

[wojciechjastrzebski]

When I had Windows 7 I could have the desktop plug-ins and choose which one I wanted to use for music. I had as many as 12 plugins and each worked on the desktop. When I wanted to try to add a new plugin to Audacity, then I lost all the plugins from the desktop. For me it is a big loss because now I can not set to the desktop and besides, as it turns out, my computer does not support the dll format. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I have no one around to help me. I do not use a DAW program.