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WORKING WITH VST PLUGINS381
Installing VST plugins under Mac
On a Mac OS computer Reason automatically scans for installed VST plugins in the following folders at each launch:
Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST
~/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST
D If you don’t have any VST plugins installed on your Mac you might have to manually create a folder named
“VST” in Library/Audio/Plug-ins/ and in ~/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/.
When you then install VST plugins later on, instruct the VST Installation program to install the files in the “Library/
Audio/Plug-ins/VST” folder. If there is no installation program for the VST, manually place the VST files in this
folder.
• It’s also possible to define your own custom VST folders on the Advanced tab in Preferences, see “Defining
custom VST folders”.
Enabling VST plugins in Reason
D To make newly installed VST plugins s available in Reason, simply (re)launch Reason.
The available VST plugins are displayed on the corresponding palettes in the Reason Browser; VST instruments
on the “Instruments” palette and VST effects on the “Effects” palette. VSTs that are internally tagged with “Analy-
sis” are placed on the “Utilities” palette.
• The VST plugins appear in the corresponding manufacturer sections, the same way as Rack Extensions are
presented:
VST instruments and Rack Extensions on the Instruments palette in the Browser.
• VST plugins also have a small blue VST label at the bottom left of the device panel, to separate them from
Rack Extension devices.
• Some VST plugins might be represented by a generic device “panel” in the Browser. If this is the case, you can
have Reason take a screenshot of the VST plugin panel and automatically replace the generic panel, see
“Screenshot”.