Adding Plugins

The application capabilities can be extended by adding audio plugins. Plugins fully integrate with the application by opening control windows on the application screen and exchanging control and processing informations in realtime. Also, plugins settings are passed to the application, and back to the plugins, for letting you store and restore settings inside your own projects.

The application scans the DSPPlugIns drawer (located inside the application top drawer) when launched. Each file is verified as a valid plugin and, in case, added to the list of available plugins.

To add a new plugin:

• If you got a compressed plugin just use a decompressor to unpack the contents to a temporary area on your hard drive, then drag the plugin to the DSPPlugIns drawer.
• If you got a plugin in uncompressed form, just drag it to the DSPPlugIns drawer.

Please note that, as the application scans the plugins drawer at launch time, if you add a plugin while the application is running it will not be detected until next launch.

To update a plugin with a different version:

• Be sure no istance of the plugin be in use (if there's no plugin window open, this doesn't mean it isn't in use: check all the insert points for occurrences of the plugin name) or better shut down the application.
• Open a shell and type avail flush or, alternatively, reset the system.
• Proceed with adding the new plugin as explained above.

Alternatively you can start switching on the system and proceed with installing the plugin update before launching the application. This would save you the steps explained above.

You can download plugins from the AudioLabs server at: http://www.audiolabs.it/plugins

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