Cubase 5 Vst Plugin Problem
A plug-in is a piece of software that adds a specific 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 files before installing new plug-ins.
I have a problem with cubase 5. I downloaded 64bit vst plugins. Untill now i used 32bit. I paste them into the c:program files/vst plugins. After I upgraded to Cubase 9 and went “totally 64bit” I had a problem with my DAW not finding the 54 Waves plugins. I also had the same problem with Maschine and Waves. A quick search on the forums showed that this is a common issue but there is lots of disagreement about how to actually fix it. Get the 200 best free VST plugins ever made. From synth VSTs and drum VSTs to VST effects, this huge list has only the best of the best plugins. I have a really painful problem on my hands, by accident i changed the plugin folder/scan folder to 'C: Program Files (x86)' and now on startup cubase scans the whole directory and all the programs which causes it to crash on start and can't get past it, already tried reinstalling the program, deleting app data and program data, but it seems this setting is stored somewhere else, any idea. I'm looking to set up another computer alongside my main computer to slave all my CPU-draining VST instruments and effects. I'm currently using Cubase 5, but looking to upgrade to 6 soon, and would like to utilise the VST System Link option. After doing some Internet research, I know System Link will only work with certain audio interfaces.
You can manage your effects and VST instruments in the Plug-in Manager window.
To open the Plug-in Manager window, select Devices > Plug-in Manager.
The Plug-in Manager window shows the following:
This tab lists all VST effects that are loaded in Cubase. You can sort the list by name, vendor, category, etc. by clicking the corresponding column heading.
This tab lists all VST instruments that are loaded in Cubase. You can sort the list by name, vendor, category, etc. by clicking the corresponding column heading.
This tab lists all VST effects and VST instruments that are installed on your system but not loaded in Cubase. These plug-ins might lead to stability problems or even cause the program to crash. As Cubase does not support 32-bit, all 32-bit plug-ins are shown in this list.
NoteYou can reactivate a blacklisted 64-bit plug-in by selecting it and clicking Reactivate. This causes Cubase to rescan the plug-in and remove it from the blacklist. To move the plug-in back to the blacklist, you must rescan all plug-ins and restart Cubase.
By default, the window section to the right shows the Default collection, which contains all effects or VST instruments loaded by the program. The Default collection cannot be changed.
You can compile your own collections of effects or VST instruments by clicking New Collection and dragging and dropping items from the list of all effects or VST instruments to the collection list.
Collections are shown in the selectors for effects/VST instruments, and all changes made to collections in the Plug-in Manager are immediately reflected in the selectors.
Enter the name of a plug-in in the search field. The list of all effects or VST instruments is filtered to show only those plug-ins whose names contain the text that you entered.
Allows you to filter the lists of all effects or VST instruments to show either all loaded plug-ins, or only those that are not part of the current collection.
Allows you to create a new folder in the current collection.
Allows you to delete the selected item in the current collection.
Allows you to create a new collection.
To create a new, empty list, select Empty. To create a new collection based on the list of all effect, select Add All Plug-ins. To create a new collection based on the current collection, select Add Current Collection.
Allows you to select a different collection, and to rename or delete the current collection.
To remove unavailable plug-ins from all collections, select Remove Unavailable Plug-ins from All Collections.
Cubase 5 Vst Plugin Problems
Opens a section at the bottom of the window in which more information about the selected item is shown. If you select several plug-ins, the information for the plug-in that you have selected first is shown. In this section, you can also deactivate selected plug-ins. Deactivated plug-ins are no longer available in collections. This is useful if you have plug-ins installed that you do not want to use in Cubase.
Opens a section at the bottom of the window in which all current paths to VST 2 plug-ins are listed. You can add or remove folder locations by using the corresponding buttons. Click Rescan All to rescan your computer for plug-ins.
I'm looking to set up another computer alongside my main computer to slave all my CPU-draining VST instruments and effects. I'm currently using Cubase 5, but looking to upgrade to 6 soon, and would like to utilise the VST System Link option. After doing some Internet research, I know System Link will only work with certain audio interfaces. I have a budget of around £350$500 to buy the two interfaces, and I'm wondering what you could advise me to get for that? It would be great if you could give me some information on setting up and using System Link, as there is very little on the Internet to help!
George Morton via email
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SOS Reviews Editor Matt Houghton replies: Personally, I wouldn't recommend using System Link, as there are alternatives around that allow you to link two machines without requiring a second audio interface.
The one I have most experience with is FX Teleport, by FX-Max (www.fx-max.com/fxt). There's a free demo that you can try using any type of network connection, including USB and Firewire, but if you decide to use it you'll get better results from a faster network connection, such as Gigabit Ethernet. The one additional piece of hardware I'd recommend investing in is a KVM box, which allows you to use a screen, mouse and keyboard with multiple computers. That's pretty much essential when working in this way. I'd thoroughly recommend FX Teleport if another computer is the answer to your problems. Vst harpsichord fre.
Before you invest, though, do make sure that it is more CPU power that you need. Availability of memory, or hard-drive loading, could also be a cause of problems. It could be that, for example, results are limited by your hard-disk performance, particularly if you are running an operating system, audio files and streaming sample instruments all from the same disk, in which case running those three things from separate drives might help.
Memory is often not a huge problem area, although it can be an issue on some 32-bit systems, particularly where you have a lot of hardware installed. First, there's a maximum of 4GB available in Windows XP 32-bit, of which only 2 or 3 GB is available to each application — and all of the plug-ins running within Cubase count as one programme! On my old XP system, I had 4GB of memory installed, but had only 2.3GB available to applications, due to the way in which Windows allocated memory address space to my various DSP cards.
In 64-bit versions of Windows, this limitation is removed. You might run into problems with older 32-bit plug-ins if you try to run the 64-bit version of Cubase, but in my current system I'm running 32-bit Cubase on Windows 7 64-bit, with the JBridge utility allowing me to run 64-bit plug-ins (such as Kontakt) in their own address space.
If you haven't tried it yet, I'd also suggest experimenting with Cubase's Freeze facility, which allows you to 'freeze' audio and instrument tracks. This essentially performs a temporary render of those tracks and unloads any plug-ins to free up precious computer resources. You can unfreeze at any time if you need to go back and tweak, and even when frozen you still have access to features such as level and pan automation.
Finally, another option is to consider upgrading to a modern multi-core PC. That might not be quite within your budget, but if you've not upgraded for a few years, you'll be amazed at how much more you can do in a single system. One advantage is that you'll only have the noise of one machine to put up with, because remember that the more computers you have running, the greater the sound of whirring fans will be in your studio!