How To Install Vst Plugins In Adobe Audition 1.5
Adobe Audition 1.5 has got multitrack processing features alongwith a wide array of effects as well as the VST/AU plugin support. This application has got a visually appealing and intuitive user interface which will provide you workspace panels that can be grouped for comfortable view. Since the VST plug-in is now installed in your operating system, you can configure your DAW to use the plug-in. Let’s start with Adobe Audition 1.5: 1.) Launch Adobe Audition 1.5. 2.) Go to Edit View and then in the “Effects”, click “Refresh Effects List” and click OK.
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This is an important tutorial regarding the management of DirectX plug-in in Adobe audition or Cool Edit Pro. This tutorial is tested to work on earlier versions of Adobe audition such as version 1.5. As an overview, a DirectX plug-in is an add-in for the software that will let you add new sound, mixing and mastering effects to Adobe audition which are not included as built-in tools bundled with the recording software.
I believe the solution presented in this tutorial can be used to any DAW using DirectX. It is because DirectX plugins is binded directly to your OS registry (Windows for example) than to your DAW system.
Take note that this tutorial for DirectX plug-in users’ only and not applicable to VST plug-in. Managing the Directx plug-in can take the following steps:
1.) Adding the plug-in.
2.) Activating the plug-in.
3.) Removing the plug-in.
Before you can use any plug-in using Adobe audition, whether it is free or commercial plug-in; you need to add and activate the plug-in.
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How to Install and Activate the Direct X Plugin
There are different types of DirectX plug-in that will be commonly used by your mixing and recording projects:
a.) Reverb
b.) Bass effect
c.) Compressor
d.) Delay
e.) Guitar effects
f.) Drum effects
Just to name a few. DirectX plug-in are third party plug-in in Adobe Audition because if you are NOT going to add and install them, it will not be available in Adobe Audition.
If you are still new to DirectX plug-in, you can see if there are available DirectX plug-in by following the steps below:
1.) Launch Adobe Audition
2.) Load any sample wav track in editor view.
3.) Go to Effects – Direct X.
4.) You can then see the list of your available DirectX plug-in.
Sample screenshot:
DirectX plugin in Adobe Audition
OK, so how you are going to add a DirectX plug-in to your existing set of tools available in Adobe audition?
The following are the easy steps:
1.) Download the plug-in. You can obtain your favorite DirectX plug-in from reputable software publisher. For example, you will download L2 wave’s compressor plug-in. You can also use free DirectX plugins although I recommend that you should double check the source to make sure it is legitimate.
You can do that by searching in Bing for “free directx plug-in” although you should be careful you are NOT installing a virus or a malware. Double check if the software publisher can be trusted as well as scanning all files before installing in your Windows.
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You can also double check with the software publisher to make sure you are downloading a Microsoft compatible directx plug-in as well as a plug-in that will be compatible with Adobe Audition.
2.) After downloading, you need to install the plug-in your Windows operating system.
3.) You then need to launch your Adobe audition.
4.) Go to Effects – refresh effects lists.
5.) After refreshing, you should be able to see your effects listed under DirectX.
Other easy ways of installing the plug-in is for you to install separate DAW, for example I got my Sony sets of DirectX plug-ins (wave hammer and Express FX) from an installation of Sony Sound forge in my Windows operating system.
After complete installation of Sound forge, I then refresh the effects lists in Adobe Audition and there; the Sony sets of plug-in are also added “automatically” in Adobe Audition.
You can do the same with your other DAW; I do not know if other DAW offers it own sets of plug-in like the Sony wave hammer and Express FX plug-ins.
This tutorial will teach you how to install a VST plugin for different audio recording and music notation software. VST is a very useful feature that extends the audio processing functionality of existing software. For example Notion 3 does not include an EQ in its mixer by default; but Notion 3 allows VST plugins. So you can simply install and add EQ to Notion 3 mixer using a VST plugin. Another example is that Audacity does not include a parametric equalizer by default.
But since Audacity allows VST plugins, you can add a parametric equalizer using third party plugins. This tutorial is illustrated using Windows 7 and Windows XP although concepts and principles can be applied to other OS versions. VST plug-in offers additional sets of effects which are not otherwise included in the default Adobe Audition list of effects as well as other DAW like REAPER.
Installation Procedure of VST in Adobe Audition
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Step1: Searching for free VST plug-in. – in this case, you may want to visit KVR Audio and search for available VST plug-ins. Follow the rest of the procedure until you will be able to download the VST exe file which will act as the installer.
This is the sample download page of the VST plug-in: Aodix v4 plug-ins
Step2: Double check the integrity of your file. Some VST plug-in developers includes an MD5 hash to their software. So after downloading, you need to double check the MD5 hash to make sure it matches with the provided by the developer. You can read this tutorial on checking the file integrity using MD5 checksum. The MD5 checksum method can be applied to any downloadable assets such as WAV or MP3 files.
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Why do you need to bother checking the MD5 checksum?
a.) If the original authors/developers provide a checksum; you will always ensure that the file you have downloaded is not corrupted or altered intentionally by other parties (if your checksum results matches with the one provided).
b.) Downloading files from the Internet can easily become corrupted or injected with other codes not included with the original installer.
Another big issue that you need to deal with is to ensure that it does contain any viruses or malware. You can upload the exe file here to be checked by the scanners.
Step3: Once it is clean, double click the installer to start the installation process. It is suggested to close all open programs to avoid conflict during installation.
You might see a warning before continuing the installation such as this:
VST plugin in Adobe Audition
It says that your system (audio interface and digital audio workstation/multi-editor/recorder) should support ASIO. These are low latency audio drivers that is very different from the one used and installed by Windows in default. Windows is using WDM; however if you are using professional audio interface; they have ASIO drivers on it. For more details about ASIO and WDM audio drivers, you can read this article on ASIO vs. WDM. If you are using older versions of Adobe Audition such as the 1.5 version, it does not support ASIO. Read for more information here: Will Adobe Audition 1.5 or 3.0 record a Firewire audio interface.
You should pay attention to some warnings to make sure the VST plug-in will work without problems. Example of these warnings are common when the VST plug-in is not freeware. In this case, it requires license key or authorization code during the installation.
If you encounter this problem, read the tutorial section on the installation of proprietary VST plug-ins.
Step4: Launch Adobe Audition – go to Effects – Add/Remove VST Directory. Navigate to the folder where the VST plug-in has been installed. If you find many folders under the plug-in, make sure to select the general path, example: C:Program FilesAodix.
Based on the screenshot above, Adobe Audition will automatically scan the sub-directories under the main folder for VST plug-in related files.
Step5: Once added, go to Effects – and click “Refresh Effects Lists”. The VST plug-in should then be added to Adobe Audition.
This is just one example, there are countless of VST plug-ins available in the internet for downloading. I also recommend the plug-in reviews before proceeding with the installation to determine if it is great or not.
The good thing is that Adobe Audition support both VST and DirectX plug-in. So it is your choice what type of plug-ins you need to install. Although most of my Adobe Audition plug-in is DirectX based, I am still using Steinberg VST plug-ins.
If you are using DirectX plug-ins, you can refer to the following tutorial below for the installation steps:
General Procedure of installing VST plugin in Windows operating system
Step1.) Make sure you have an installer (.exe file) of the VST plugin you need to install. There are lots of VST plugins available, some a free and some requires you to have a license. For illustration purposes, supposing you need a free and complete VST plugin that already includes the following important effects: parametric EQ, compressor, etc. In addition to the one provided in the previous section; another great free VST plugin that will run in Windows is the Reaper VST audio plugins. Download the installer here.
Step2.) After downloading the installer, double click the exe file to install it to your Windows 7 OS. Make sure to select all effect plugins during installation.
Step3.) Confirm that you have properly installed the Reaper VST plugin. Go to your C:Program Files, you should see a directory named as “VSTPlugins”. If you visit that folder, you should see the “ReaPlugs” folder with the following contents:
Installed Reaper VST plugins
As you can see after installation, the actual VST plugin that is very important are those with .dll extension. For example this dll file: reaeq-standalone.dll is the actual ReaEQ plugin. And also reacomp-standalone.dll is the application extension of ReaComp Compressor. Take note that these programs are standalone so it can be move to other directories and would still work.
Add/Enable VST Plugin to Notion 3
Now you have successfully installed the VST dll plugin files, it is time to integrate it with your recording or music notation software. Let’s start with Notion 3:
Step1.) Launch Notion 3 music notation software.
Step2.) Open any existing Notion 3 project that you are working which you would like to apply VST effects
Step3.) Click “Mixer” in the Notion 3 menu.
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Step4.) You should see different tracks in the mixer representing different instruments in your project. Take note that this mixer works exactly like a real mixing console. To connect an EQ to a mixer, you should be using Inserts.
In Notion 3, each track or channel allows you up to 4 effects to be added as “Insert”. Click “Insert” on any tracks or channel. Start with the top most insert of the channel.
Step5.) After clicking on it, it will show two options in the dropdown: “None” and “VST Manager”. Currently “None” is checked since Notion 3 is not yet configured to use any VST plugins, so you need to check “VST Manager”. You will then see all the VST effect plugins automatically discovered by Notion 3 based on installed VST plugins in Windows 7.
Step6.) You will then need to click “Enable” for example the ReaEQ parametric equalizer (ReaEQ-standalone) to use it and then click “close”.
Step7.) Now go back to the mixer in Notion 3, click again “Insert” and select “ReaPlugs”. You can then click “reaeq-standalone”. Finally you can see the EQ options where you can apply desired settings.
VST plugin in Notion 3 mixer
The effects will then be highlighted on the Insert section of the Mixer as shown below (for example- Oboe, Violin I, Violin II and Viola are applied with the EQ effect):