How do you organize your VST plug-ins?

tommy2000 · Post by **tommy2000** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:23 am

Been searching through this forum to see if this has been answered, only found some indirect references.

Question: How do you organize your VST plug-ins, especially since Live wants to see a single plug-in directory.

Just wanted to see how you handled this.

Happy 2005!

Tom

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:28 am

in the vstplugins folder,
i've made 3 main folders

FX
Instruments
Utilities

within these folders i've pretty much organized the plugins by Name, and there are subfolders for Bundles that have multiple FX like TC Native 3.1 and also Korg Legacy Collection. plugins in the Utilities folder are like Tape-It, a recording plugin, and Flipper, a phase inverter plugin.

Keeping them organized in the seperate folders helps a ton though.

rEalm · Post by **rEalm** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:13 pm

I don't run that many plug ins anymore (going for the less is more approach these days), so they all just go into a single VST PLugins folder

Complex, I know ....

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:47 pm

Instruments
Effects
Midi Plugins

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:55 pm

I'm doing a complete reinstall of my system today, an this time around there'll be one vsti folder and two fx folders, one of which will hold the plugins i'm likely to use live, the other with subfolders named "distortions", "delays" and so forth.

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:01 pm

I only use about five.

-Paws

krushing · Post by **krushing** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:07 am

Let's see...

Ampsim
Delays/Reverbs
Mastering
Fuckup
Misc
Synth
Filter
Organic

...or something like that...not at the main machine right now

drush · Post by **drush** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:15 am

2 folders in the vstplugins folder: vst, vsti

enzymex · Post by **enzymex** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:01 am

From Memory, I create folders something like:

EQ-track
EQ-master
Comp-track
Comp-master
FX-Delay
FX-Reverb
FX-Modulation
FX-Filters
Synths

There are about 10 more than that, but you get the idea of how I organize - works pretty good.

supster · Post by **supster** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:43 am

SYNTHS

EFX

Thats it right now. Some (most) of the DLLS are fincky about moving them once you install.

But if it wasnt a hassle I would add the right subcategories below

tommy2000 · Post by **tommy2000** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:46 am

Many thanks to all for their tips on VST organization!

Tom