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Originally Posted by Happy
The issue is that, it would be Extremely useful if each Type of FX could be given it's own folder, rather than them all lumped together in one
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Gidday!
First, your plan is going to be quickly defeated if you use plugins with installers, as some will install into their own (custom) folders.
That aside, there is nothing stopping you from installing straight out .dll VST's into various folders, it will soon get messy and tedious to maintain. I am not sure if this will be of any advantage to you either in respect to using Reaper. If you have all your .dll VST's in the one folder it is much, much easier to backup in case anything goes haywire.
Reaper can be set to search any folders you need it to. Just because you have plugins in different folders does not mean that is how it is going to appear in the FX viewer in Reaper.
To set plugin folders, go to:
OPTIONS > PREFERENCES
or
CTRL+P
or
Left click on the
Audio device settings dialogue top right corner
What you are looking for lives in
PLUGINS > VST, see below:
I am guessing you are using Windows since you said 'folders'.
Keep in mind plugins that have installers (some will not allow you to define a location) will install to a variety of locations.
Such as:
C:\Program Files (x86)\VSTPlugIns;
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\VstPlugins;
C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3;
C:\Program Files\VstPlugins;
C:\Program Files (x86)\VST Plugins;
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steinberg\VSTPlugins;
As said before, arranging plugins into folders such as Reverb, Compressors and so on won't make any difference to how they appear in Reapers FX browser. They won't get categorised according to your folder structure.