Today we're going to learn how to manage plugins in Reaper's FX window.
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00:00 hi i'm anita potter from anita potter
00:02 productions and today we're going to
00:03 talk about plug-in management
00:13 now when you start working in any kind
00:16 of daw you're going to want to get
00:19 plug-ins
00:20 if you want to supplement
00:22 your stock plug-ins and reaper has a way
00:25 to
00:26 organize them so let's get stuck in
00:28 i'm going to add a new track by double
00:30 clicking and i'm going to hit the fx
00:32 button
00:33 and move it down so we can see what
00:35 we're doing and i'm going to click add
00:38 now i have new plugins that i need to
00:42 maneuver you can right click anywhere in
00:44 the empty space
00:46 and you can add well you can add a
00:48 developer if you want to
00:51 or you can click right click anywhere in
00:53 here and add folder
00:56 so i have a few folders i've added in
00:59 here
01:01 to organize and sort
01:04 it's like i have
01:06 things that are amp bass guitar
01:09 things that are channel strips
01:10 compressors delay de-esser drums so on
01:13 and so forth i put my um
01:16 instruments
01:17 in there as well
01:19 and i have some new plug-ins that i need
01:22 to organize
01:23 do i have i do have a folder for
01:26 mastering
01:28 but you would if you needed to add a new
01:29 folder
01:30 right click
01:32 add folder and then you can give it a
01:35 name
01:36 i haven't used the smart folder function
01:41 on here but i just move them to us like
01:44 whatever
01:46 plug-ins where they go so i'm just gonna
01:48 just i'd type in mastering but i'd have
01:50 already gotten one
01:53 so you can just type a name in there and
01:54 press ok
01:56 then you have your plugins
01:59 i'm going to right click on this plugin
02:04 and add to folder
02:07 and i'm going to select mastering and
02:09 i'm going to do the same thing with this
02:10 one down here
02:11 since it's a vst3
02:15 uh where'd it go add a folder
02:19 mastering and it should show up i also
02:21 need to
02:22 maneuver these QRanges into my eq
02:26 folder add folder
02:28 eq
02:32 and you just right click
02:37 i keep losing it add folder
02:41 click
02:44 i gotta remember where it is
02:47 eq
02:48 so i'm gonna go and check the eq i have
02:50 quite a few
02:52 different eqs
02:53 that i've downloaded
02:56 and moved into here you can see the
02:58 QRange is right there and then i'm
03:00 gonna go over to my mastering folder
03:03 and
03:04 the
03:05 ones that i got today
03:08 are in there
03:09 now there's one plug-in manufacturer
03:11 that i know of specifically that if you
03:14 put them into folders once you update
03:18 they'll disappear out of your your um
03:20 your personal folders and that's waves
03:23 every time waves hasn't had an update it
03:26 would completely disappear and i would
03:27 add them back in
03:29 but then it's like it would do it every
03:31 time so once wave central updates or you
03:34 update your plugins they move themselves
03:37 out of your specific folder so i usually
03:39 just go
03:40 to developers if i need a waves plugin
03:42 and scroll all the way down
03:45 and
03:46 get it that way
03:49 that's the one that i know that does
03:50 that i don't know about any of the other
03:52 ones that have like their own um plugin
03:55 managers
03:57 so
03:58 and that's basically how you manage your
04:00 plugins now
04:03 if you're like me you have a tendency to
04:05 ooh a plug-in let me go grab that i'll
04:07 forget to do this so i know i'm gonna
04:09 have to sit there
04:11 and go through
04:15 all the plugins
04:17 figure out which ones i downloaded and
04:20 make sure that they're either in the
04:22 folder already or if they're not in the
04:23 folder i wish there was a way to um
04:26 filter it by um
04:29 like date added that would be kind of
04:31 cool that way
04:33 i'd know
04:34 but you just sit there and you go
04:36 through all of your plugins yes there's
04:39 quite a quite a bit
04:41 other than the stock reaper plugins that
04:43 i have there's a lot of js plugins too
04:46 that come standard with reaper
04:48 and that's
04:50 all there is to adding a new folder
04:54 putting your plugins in there they'll
04:56 still show up under like
04:59 um categories
05:01 or at least they should
05:03 and you could like certainly do it that
05:05 way but i like having all my uh
05:07 plugins that i download into a folder
05:11 that way i can grab it quickly it's like
05:13 oh i need that one plugin i can't
05:14 remember the name of it but i know it's
05:16 for bass i can click on base
05:18 and then it's right there
05:21 as long as i
05:22 put it in the folder
05:24 so you have to be vigilant on doing that
05:26 and i i haven't been i know it's going
05:28 to take a little while to uh
05:32 get that done
05:34 so how do you manage your plugins do you
05:36 use the folders inside the fx
05:40 or do you have some other
05:42 way that you do it let me know in the
05:43 comments section below and i'll see in
05:44 the next video bye bye for now