Using VST Plugins

By Inge on 2005-08-10

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1. Setting up your VST plugins folder

MadTracker uses by default the folder <installation folder>\MadTracker\VST\ as the VST plugins folder. If you already have another folder with VST plugins, then you need to define this other location in the configuration screen. You can add up to three VST folder locations.

• go to Edit -> Configuration, or press [Ctrl]+[F] from the pattern view
• go to the Plugins tab
• click on Browse right of one of the three VST folders locations
• locate the head folder that contains your VST plugins, and click on OK

MadTracker will now automatically scan this folder for all VST plugins, and organize them. You can view all scanned VST plugins in the Plugins tab inside the Configuration screen. Here you can also re-analyze the available VST plugins, so that MadTracker is made aware of changes in the VST plugins that you have installed.

You are advised to use one location to install all your VST plugins in, and define this location inside MadTracker. This way, MadTracker will always have an up-to-date list of installed VST plugins.

For an organized way of working with VST plugins, divide your VST folder into an 'effect' folder (containing VST effects) and an 'instrument' folder (containing VST instruments). Since VST plugins can be freely moved around your hard disk (the .dll file and its accompanying presets), you can easily set your VST folder up like this.

You can define your own VST categories, so that you can retreive plugins more easily. To create categories, go to the Plugins tab, click on a plugin in that you want to assign a new category to, then click on the current name right of 'Category' (bottom of the screen), and type in the new category name. From now one, the new category will be available in the VST organizer.

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