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aurmor · Post by **aurmor** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:23 pm

Hello,
I had the free 3.1.32 version of MULAB and I found easy to add new free VST and use them. I downloaded the 4.4.6 version (license UL) yesterday : promising! But I wanted to add VST this evening, and no way! Do I have to use MULAB \ Manage VST plugins? I used it and added 3 instruments, but impossible to use them as instruments : DLL files seem not to be recognized??? How do you add a VSTi?? Help, I could throw my PC through the window... more than 2 hours lost for nothing!!! Is that me or MULAB has become too much complicated???

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:58 pm

Run MULAB. Pick "New". Click the "MULAB" menu and select "Manage VST Plug-Ins". At the bottom of the pop-up window, click "Add VST Plug-Ins" and select a folder where your plug-ins can be found. You can repeat that if you have various folders scattered around.

Or drop a DLL onto a Rack slot.

If you get the message "Invalid VST Plug-In", it could mean you tried to add a 32-bit DLL to 64-bit MuLab (or 64-bit DLL to 32-bit MuLab). If you want to go cross-architecture like this, you'll need jBridge.

aurmor · Post by **aurmor** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:17 am

Than you for your answer!
In fact I already did what you say : I could add VST with "Manage VST Plug-Ins"... but where do you find the instrument (path...) you added to use it???

aurmor · Post by **aurmor** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:26 am

... when I click on "preset file name" on my instrument, I can see folders, but my VST added are not in "User", and I search and search and can't succeed finding them (I added 32 bits VST on a 32 bits version of MULAB). And if I open preset, I find my own folders, and if I click on the folder of the new instrument (a DLL file), it writes "No file chosen" (it is a DLL file and it seems using "Open preset" filters *.Mux and *.Musynth files... so I repeat my question : is there a problem with DLL files?? Have they to be converted in .Mux or .Musynth file?)
Than you

kingtubby · Post by **kingtubby** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:36 am

aurmor wrote:Than you for your answer!
In fact I already did what you say : I could add VST with "Manage VST Plug-Ins"... but where do you find the instrument (path...) you added to use it???

pljones wrote:Run MULAB. Pick "New". Click the "MULAB" menu and select "Manage VST Plug-Ins". At the bottom of the pop-up window, click "Add VST Plug-Ins" and select a folder where your plug-ins can be found. You can repeat that if you have various folders scattered around.

aurmor · Post by **aurmor** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:38 am

OK ! I succeeded in finding my new added VST instrument! I wanted to click on the default instrument of the rack proposed... and it proposes only ROM instrument... I succeeded in adding a new track : it proposes you to use MUTOOLS (Rom instruments) or VST own instruments... BUT if you make first a rack with a ROM instrument and that you want to use an added VST instrument, I don't know how to do it!!!

Crackbaby · Post by **Crackbaby** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:01 am

This is me answering before caffeine this morning so maybe im totally answering the wrong thing..

hmm.. it was probably wrong as i read what you write a third time .. and i realize i do need coffee before any attempt

Crackbaby · Post by **Crackbaby** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:09 am

Mutools instruments are both ROM and user - the user ones are those you made yourself (a bit advanced for now i bet).

Below those there should be VST instruments and effects. If we're thinking of the same location

(just had one zip of coffee so far

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pljones · Post by **pljones** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:50 am

aurmor wrote:OK ! I succeeded in finding my new added VST instrument! I wanted to click on the default instrument of the rack proposed... and it proposes only ROM instrument... I succeeded in adding a new track : it proposes you to use MUTOOLS (Rom instruments) or VST own instruments... BUT if you make first a rack with a ROM instrument and that you want to use an added VST instrument, I don't know how to do it!!!

If you left-click (select) on an existing rack entry, you'll end up editing that rack entry. If it's a MuLab built-in, you'll be able to select from any MuLab built-in patch, as that's how they work.

If you want to replace the content of a rack slot, either use the drag-n-drop procedure I mentioned or, if you've already scanned in your VSTs, right-click (context menu) the rack slot and choose replace: then it will work like (left-)clicking an empty slot.

RIGHT-CLICK IS YOUR FRIEND everywhere in MuLab

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