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Step 1.1 Download the Virtual Instrument (VSTi)

From this page download the BassMidi VSTi 1.2 zipfile.

Step 1.2 Unzip that file to your VST plugin directory

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IxoxFlute is a free Flute plugin developed by Ixox. The file extension for VST3 plugin files is.vst3. To manually install a VST3 format plugin; copy the.vst3 file to C:/Program Files/Common Files/VST3. After installing the plugins by either running the.exe file or copying a.dll or.vst3 to the appropriate folders, next step is to go into your DAW to locate the newly installed plugin. You might choose to make a folder called “Soundfonts” in a location where you keep your loops and other audio resources perhaps within the Reaper folder or another area on your computer where you keep things organised. Step 3.1 Time to try inserting a Virtual Instrument into Reaper using the VSTi and Soundfont we just downloaded. I'm new to Reaper and I installed IK Multimedia Ampeg SVX but I can't get Reaper to get the plugin. I've set the VST folder and rescanned the folder many times. I even put the dll's in the Reaper FX folder but it still cannot seem to see the Ampeg SVX plugin. I'm using Vista 64 bit on an HP laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Two Common directories for VST plugins:

• C:Program Files (x86)SteinbergVstPlugins
• C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesVST3

If either of these folders exist or if you have admin privileges on your computer you can unzip the contents of the zipfile to one of the above folders. Since I’m working on a computer with no admin rights I had to make a portable install of Reaper in this folder C:REAPER so I navigated to C:REAPERUserPlugins and made a folder called VST.

Step 1.3 Make sure Reaper knows where your VST has been unzipped to

1. In REAPER, press [Ctrl] + P (Windows) / [Cmd] + [,] (Mac) to access Preferences.
2. Go to Plug-ins > VST.
3. Under “VST Plugin Path,” make sure that the path where you placed your plugins is listed (if not, add it)… see the screenshot for how I added C:REAPERUserPluginsVST after the other two default folders.
4. Click on Re-Scan and your instrument should be available within Reaper.

Step 2.1 Time to download a Soundfont to open within the VSTi we just installed

A free GM/GS soundfont has been shared here Reality_GMGS_falcomod.sf2 (version 1.2)
Thanks to Falcosoft for sharing the soundfont on this page

Step 2.3 Unzip the Soundfont to a folder / directory where you will store your soundfonts

Guitar tuner plugin vst. You might choose to make a folder called “Soundfonts” in a location where you keep your loops and other audio resources… perhaps within the Reaper folder or another area on your computer where you keep things organised.

Step 3.1 Time to try inserting a Virtual Instrument into Reaper using the VSTi and Soundfont we just downloaded.

Note: If Step 1.3 went smoothly and you Re-Scanned the VST folder Reaper should be able to find the new plugin… If not, try re-scanning or perhaps try restarting Reaper. If that fails you will need to check that the directory to where you extracted the VST files is included in the VST plugin folders that Reaper looks in (as per the screenshot in 1.3). If that fails you might need to ask me for some help 🙂

Insert > Virtual instrument on new track

Display the Virtual MIDI piano (Alt+B)

Hopefully you can now hear the sound of a piano when you make use of the virtual MIDI piano

Download some free Soundfonts

Some links that might have some to check out…

• A Blog post listing tonnes of different Soundfonts
• On the Musescore website they have a few more soundfonts available.

Install Sforzando Sound Font player as it works on Mac or Windows

Guest post by Brandon S. Hire of The Noise Floor. Brandon recently went hell with getting his Waves VST3 plugins all into REAPER. He got through it and I asked him to share the experience to help others in the same situation. Any clues to solving problems like this are gold.

Waves recently announced a new subscription plan which allows users to subscribe to their Silver and Mercury bundles. I decided to give this a try and download the Mercury Bundle. As a long time REAPER user and long time Waves user, I didn’t anticipate any problems.

To put it bluntly, I had problems. But the problems were neither the fault of Waves or of Cockos. The folks at Waves’ tech support team were awesome at helping me figure out the problem, and I want to document the issue here in case any of you are experiencing something similar.

Note that I’m not advising you to take these steps yourselves. If you’re having issues, there may be other factors that are causing your issues. Your best bet is to contact support at Waves or Cockos and see if you can get assistance with the issue. With that being said, here’s what happened:

To make a long story short, I noticed that about half of the Mercury bundle plugins weren’t showing up in VST3 format in REAPER. The same plugs would show up in VST and AU formats, which indicated that the plugins were in fact installed on the system. So I decided to clear the cache in the plugins preferences and rescan the plugins folder.

As it scanned the VST3 plugins from Waves, it stalled at Greg Wells MixCentric. Then REAPER flat out crashed. When I re-launched REAPER, there was still no sign of the missing VST3 plugins, and MixCentric was one of them.

So I contacted Waves support. After trying a couple of things, we were able to remedy the problem with a clean install. This required that I go through a few steps to uninstall everything/ana-sonic-academy-vst-plugin.html. Waves related on my system, and then allow only the newest versions of everything to be installed by Waves Central. The whole process took a couple of hours, but by the end of it all I was back up and running. When I loaded REAPER again, I cleared the cache and re-scanned again. This time there was no crash, and at the end of the scan I had all of the missing plugins.

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1. Quit all audio related software.
2. Launch Waves Central and login. Choose: Install->Uninstall Products (at the top).
3. Choose All Waves plugins V9 click ‘Uninstall‘.
4. Once the uninstall is finished – quit Waves Central.

1. Quit all the audio related software on your Mac.
2. Please use the Waves uninstaller to remove all the Waves software from your computer, located in Applications > Waves > Utilities > Waves uninstaller and check “Remove All” to remove also the old versions. (If not available skip to the next step)
3. Delete “Waves” folder located in your Applications folder
4. Go to the following locations and delete any WaveShell file/s of any version number found:
   1. HD > Library > Audio > Plug-ins > Components
   2. HD > Library > Audio > Plug-ins > VST
   3. HD > Library > Audio > Plug-ins > VST3
   4. HD > Library > Application Support > Avid > Audio > Plug-Ins*
   5. HD > Library > Application Support > Digidesign > Plug-ins*
      * This location is only present if Protools is installed
5. Delete the “Waves Preferences” folder located at HD > Users > Current user > Library > Preferences (this folder is accessed by going to the Go menu and holding down the Altoption key. This will reveal the Library option)
6. Delete the folder “Waves” located at HD > Current User > Library > Caches (this folder is accessed by opening the Go menu and holding down the [Alt/Option] key. This will reveal the Library option)
7. Go to Mac HD > Library > Application Support and delete the “Waves” and “Waves Audio” folders.

• Download the latest version of Waves Central from this direct linkand install it on your computer.
• Follow the instructions on theInstalling your Waves products and demos article on our support page in order to reinstall your activated products.

As a long-time waves user, I’ve been slowly accumulating a collection of plugs prior to this subscription being available. That means I’ve been installing them intermittently over the last two years on this machine, and there have been updates since then. Those updates most likely were conflicting with previous files I’d installed, causing some to go missing and others to trigger a system crash. That’s why performing a clean install of everything worked. There was no longer old stuff mucking up the works and conflicting with the new stuff.

As mentioned above, if you’re having an issue with the new subscription working properly in REAPER, you should be certain that you’re using the VST3 version of the plugin in question. If it didn’t show up, a clean install may be the answer. I would do this with Waves tech support, as there may be further issues. Now that I’m up and running with the supported VST3 plugins, everything is running exactly as it should. I couldn’t be happier.

Thanks to Brandon for writing this up and sharing the info.

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