Blue Cat Audio freeware audio plug-ins

[cuthbert]

And yes, after knowing you have to force a plugin rescan, I can put subfolders of an entire group of plugins in Audacity's Plug-Ins directory. Although it is unfortunate that a menu subfolder does not get created in the effects menu for ease of use (Scrolling menus suck), the plugins do at least show up.

That is odd...I could have sworn that Audacity would not recognize my VST plugins within Audacity's won Plugins folder. I'll have to try it again when I get a moment.

That said, yeah - Audacity has an unusual implementation of VST support. I never could get 1.3.11 to recognize my existing Steinberg\VSTPlugins folder, and that pesky checkbox is not sticky (i.e., you have to go in and check it before you quit/relaunch the app).

Hopefully, the developers will be work out this usability issue while it is still beta.

[SteveB]

Heard good reports about Blue Cat etc. My DAW isn't www-connected...so if a usb-stick will suffice...I may be

[T.C. Elliott]

I've got them. They are good. But I don't use them that often for some reason. I think because I mix fairly dry. Just a bit of chorus or delay or reverb, I don't need too much. And Blue Cat excels at those types of effects.