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As shown some time ago for the Mac, today’s tip shows you how to organize your plug-ins on windows, in order to find and load them quickly into Blue Cat’s PatchWork or MB-7 Mixer.
- IIRC, this is the first Waves install thread that mentioned me. My knowledge of Waves is very limited. Years ago they had problems with X-Ray. Mixing Waves VST2 and VST3 plug-ins was a problem (still may be IDK) and CbB needs Waves VST3 plug-in to access their external sidechain inputs. That's about it.
- The way to make WAVES plugins works is as follows. Download Shell2VST from a google search and save it to your Desktop. Install your Waves plugin or plugins per the way the installer wants to. Copy the WavesShell-VST from the 'VSTPlugin' folder on your C: Drive.
As you will see, It’s no rocket science, and this will greatly improve your experience and reduce the time to load your plug-ins.
Spending Too Much Time Looking For Plug-Ins?
Some people have been asking for the capability to load the plug-ins directly from the menu instead of having to open an Explorer Window. While this may be added in the future to our software, be aware that it may never beat what you can already do today with the Windows Explorer or Finder, as you will see below…
How To
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On Windows, whatever you do, your VST plug-ins folder will probably quickly look like a huge mess, unfortunately…
There is however a very simple way to overcome this issue and organize your plug-ins properly: it will just take you a few minutes!
To quickly access your plug-ins, without modifying the original install locations (for optimal compatibility), just do the following:
1. Create a new folder somewhere convenient on your system. For example in the ” My Documents” directory.
2. Label the new folder as “Plug-ins”.
3. Drag it into your Sidebar Favorites section to make it available as a shortcut there.
4. Go to your VST plug-ins folder.
5. Right click on each plugin you want and choose “Create shortcut” (multi-selection works too).
6. Move these shortcuts to your new folder, and create sub-folders to organize them.
Here you go! You can now access plug-ins quickly using the shortcuts, inside the appropriate folders:
VST Plug-Ins organized into subfolders, directly accessible from the Favorites Sidebar
Additional Tip: You can also choose to add several folders to the favorite bar instead of a single one, to access directly the mostly used plug-ins that you use most of the time.
One More Tip: It is possible to add a shortcut to the same plug-in in different folders, as it may be valid for several categories.
Waves Vst Plugins
Not Fancy Enough? Add Some Icons!
Once you have properly organized the plug-ins thanks to shortcuts and linked to them from the favorites bar, you may want to add some colors to it and change the icons. You can set a different icon for each folder, and even for each plug-in:
Plug-Ins Folders with Custom Icons
With custom icons, it is even easier to find the plug-ins: a glance will suffice to pickup the right one!
Free Search Included!
And one more thing… Did you know that you can then use the standard windows search feature to find the plug-ins? Just type in a name and you’ll get it instantly!
VST Plug-In Search Included !
Conclusion
Simply using the Windows Explorer properly and taking the time to organize things will greatly improve the plug-in loading experience. There are even features that are not available in most host applications (how many do provide custom icons and search?).
Do you still need an included plug-in menu? Please discuss below!
Previous article made installation of Waves plugins via Waves Central successful in Linux environment, however, getting the plugins working was not possible. After a while from the article, a way to make it has been finally discovered with LinVst. This article covers the whole steps.
Japanese article here
- Ubuntu Studio 18.10
- Wine 4.0-rc7 (Staging)
- LinVst 2.4.1
- Ardour 5.12
The Wine architecture should be 64 bit.
The following packages should be installed in advance.
Install DLLs
The following DLLs should be installed via winetricks.
Set DLL overrides
The following DLL overrides should be designated in Libraries tab of winecfg.
native, builtin should be specified in all overrides.
In addition, Windows Versions in Applications tab should be set to 7 or later.
Install robocopy
robocopy is not installed on Wine by default, needing to be installed manually. Download the installer from the following URL.https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17657
Add environment variables
Some environment variables that are set in Windows by default are not set in Wine environments. They should be added manually.
Add the following environment variables under HKEY_CURRENT_USEREnvironment
| Name | Data |
|---|---|
| COMMONPROGRAMFILES(X86) | C:Program Files (x86)Common Files |
| PROGRAMFILES(X86) | C:Program Files (x86) |
| PUBLIC | C:usersPublic |
Download Waves Central from Waves website and install it as usual. Desired plugins should be also installed via Waves Central.
Download Debian-Stretch version from Release page of LinVst and extract it.
Copy all files named as lin-vst-server in embedded-version directory to /usr/bin/.
Copy linvst.so file in the same directory to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/VSTPlugIns/ directory and rename it to the same name as dll files in the directory.
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Add ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/VSTPlugIns/ to Edit > Preferences > VST > Linux VST Path. Since invisible folders (initiating with dot) cannot be selected in the dialog, the directory path should be directly specified in the address bar.
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A dialog will pop up while scanning plugins. C: should be double-clicked first, then double-click Program Files (x86), Waves and then select Plug-Ins V10 and press Open.
Vst Plugin Directory For Waves Installer
Finally Waves plugins are working in the DAW.