Organizing VST's.

Analog-X64 · Post by **Analog-X64** » 23/12/2006 - 3:20

I'm rebuilding my Music/Graphics production PC....so since I'm starting fresh.

I was wondering if any of you here have a good method of keeping the VST's organized in one place? Every VST Seems to have its own idea of where to install etc..

Paul Vanukoff · Post by **Paul Vanukoff** » 26/12/2006 - 18:33

Personally I do the following:

If it has an installer (most commercial VSTs) it usually asks you where to install it, and they usually default to:

C:\Program Files\{vendor name}\{vst name}

I always change this to:

C:\VST Files\{vendor name}\{vst name}

If it doesn't have an installer (most free VSTs) I just manually extract and place the DLL and related files in the same folder scheme as above:

C:\VST Files\{vendor or author name}\{vst name}

In doing this, all I have to do in my music programs is point to the "C:\VST Files" folder to find all my VSTs, and they stay separate from the ever-growing "Program Files" folder.

Analog-X64 · Post by **Analog-X64** » 26/12/2006 - 21:17

Awesome Tip Paul!!!! I will follow it when I re-build my machine shortly.

Post by **Ziphoid** » 27/12/2006 - 9:52

Another idea is to actually look into Kore (http://www.native-instruments.com/index ... =kore11_us) from Native Instruments, which helps you to organize your VTSs from inside the actual host, but of course not in the filesystem, which I gather was you first thought.

I also use the "mount-HD-as-an-NTFS-dir"-feature of XP to set an entire HDD as the VSTPlugins-folder, to keep as much space as possible for the storage of the plugins.

// Ziph