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Installing and Managing VST

Plug-ins

Cubase supports the VST 2 and VST 3 plug-in standards. You can install effects and instruments

that comply with these formats.

NOTE

Cubase only supports 64-bit plug-ins.

A plug-in is a piece of software that adds a specic functionality to Cubase. The audio effects and

instruments that are used in

Cubase are VST plug-ins.

VST effect or VST instrument plug-ins normally have their own installation application. Read the

documentation or readme

les before installing new plug-ins.

When you scan for newly installed plug-ins or relaunch Cubase, the new plug-ins are shown on

the VST effect or VST instrument selectors, respectively.

Cubase comes with a number of effect plug-ins included. These effects and their parameters are

described in the separate document

Plug-in Reference.

Plug-ins and Collections

The VST Plug-in Manager shows the VST effects and VST instruments that are installed on your

computer.

In Cubase, plug-ins are arranged in collections. Only one collection can be active at the same

time. The plug-ins contained in the active collection are shown in the selectors all over the

program.

When you launch Cubase, all plug-ins that are found are automatically placed in the Default

collection. This is the collection of plug-ins that is active by default.

The Default collection is created each time you start Cubase or you initiate a rescan.

You can, however, add your own VST effect or VST instrument collections. This is useful if you

only want to see the

specic plug-ins that are used in a specic project, for example. When you

activate this collection, all VST effects and VST instruments of this collection are shown in the

selectors for VST effects or VST instruments.

NOTE

If an installed VST effect or a VST instrument could not be loaded by Cubase, it is not shown on

the

VST Effects tab or the VST Instruments tab, and grayed out in any collection. In this case,

verify if that plug-in is copy-protected.