How do I use Vst in Audacity?

[P.T.]

I tried putting a vst folder in the audacity folder as the manual says, but Audacity doesn't see them.

I tried putting the dll in the plug-in folder and that didn't work.

I also noticed that the items in the Audacity plugin folder (that come with Audacity) don't seem to show up anywhere in the program.

[ermi]

Yeah, I wonder about this as well...

[tl]

Maybe you're missing the Audacity VST Enabler...
... download and just follow the instructions in the readme.

tl.

[Rangtangtang]

You have to get the vst enabler from audacity. The vst enabler is still a bit crude and there is a lot of developement to go. The vst GUI will not be diplayed, and some-more complicated vst will not work. You have to test them one at a time.

[krushing]

You read the Audacity Wiki on VSTs yet?

[ermi]

Thanks!

Basically: I tried Audacity just quickly and since I didn't really like it I didn't take enough time to learn things...

[ermi]

Damn, you have to copy the plugins in the Audacity folder!

And the plugins don't have their GUI, wtf?!


offtopic:
Are you sure there's no better freeware audio editor?
What if I got a very old copy of CoolEdit? (or something..., which one was it?) I heard they were free.
Can you even loop(playback) files in Audacity?

[cold c]

Can you even loop(playback) files in Audacity?

Shift + click on play (read the docs).

[Ed Cregger]

I am fairly new to digital recording, but I find Audacity to be an extremely useful tool for editing .wav and mp3 files. It does take a little studying, but it is nothing compared to learning how to do the same editing in Sonar or Cubase. I'm not knocking the latter two programs. I just find Audacity a bit more intuitive.