User Manual

258
Customizing
An example of this would be DirectX plug-ins. Many of
these do not apply to audio at all and are of no relevance
to WaveLab Studio whatsoever. By disabling these, you
will make it easier to find the plug-ins that you really want
to use in WaveLab Studio.
Working with groups
The Master Section plug-ins can be organized into
groups. This is done by adding subfolders to the Master
Section folder and then dragging Plug-in icons into these
folders.
When you then select from plug-in menus or display lists
of plug-ins, the organization you have created will be re-
flected in the menu/list.
• To create a group, click the New Group button, enter a
name and press [Return].
The group will initially appear at the end of the list, but when you start us-
ing it, the list will be resorted so that the groups are displayed in alpha-
betical order.
• To delete a group, select it and click Delete Group.
If the group contains any plug-ins, they will not be deleted. Instead, they
will appear in the Master Section section, outside all other groups.
• Moving plug-ins between groups is done by dragging
and dropping, just as when dragging files in the Windows
Explorer.
• If you lose track of your changes and wish to return to
the state that the list was in when you first opened the di-
alog, click Undo Changes.
• If you want to restore everything to the default “factory
settings”, click “Set default”.
Handling VST plug-ins
If you have VST plug-ins installed on your computer that
you don’t need in WaveLab Studio, you can tell the pro-
gram to ignore these on launch. This is done in the Prefer-
ences–VST dialog. It is possible to exclude single VST
plug-ins, entire folders and subfolders containing VST
plug-ins, and the “Shared VST Plug-ins” folder (if present
on your system). The methods for doing this are all de-
scribed below.
Proceed as follows to set up which VST plug-ins to use in
WaveLab Studio:
• Open the Preferences dialog from the Options menu,
and select the VST tab.
This contains the following items:
!
VST plug-ins can also be excluded, see “Handling
VST plug-ins” on page 258.
Here, a “Dynamics”
group has been
created, which
then appears in
the Master Sec-
tion.
!
These settings are stored in the files “WaveLab Stu-
dio/Presets/Plug-ins/PlugInPrefAE.set” and “Wave-
Lab Studio/System/plugIns.set”. If you ever
encounter problems with “lost” plug-ins, delete
these files and the program will re-scan and build a
new list of plug-ins the next time you launch it. This
can also be achieved by clicking the “Force plugin
dectection at next launch” button in the Prefer-
ences–VST dialog (see below).
!
Note that unlike deactivating a plug-in in the Plug-in
Manager (as described in the section “Activating and
deactivating plug-ins and groups” on page 257)
which will only remove it from the plug-in menu in the
Master Section, “ignoring” a VST plug-in as de-
scribed below will remove it from the whole program,
including the Montage.
Item Description
Use VST plugin
shared folder
If you have Cubase installed on your computer,
the effects
that were included with Cubase can
also be available in WaveLab Studio, provided
that they are installed in the “Shared VST Plug-
ins” folder and this checkbox is activated. Next
time WaveLab Studio is launched the plug-ins in
this folder will be available.
Optional extra VST
plugin folder
(WaveLab Studio spe-
cific)
Here you can set a path to an “extra” VST plugin
folder. As many Cubase plug-ins are not usable
in WaveLab Studio, you can set up a specific
folder containing all the VST plug-ins you wish
to use in WaveLab Studio.