The Plugins section of a selector features a 'hamburger' button on the right. You can click it to pop up the Plugin Manager. Alternatively you can rightclick a plugin in the selector and choose 'Show in Plugin Manager'.
Plugin Manager window
Hide from Effect/Instrument/MIDI Effect selector
MultitrackStudio tries to show plugins in appropriate selectors only, but it needs to err on the safe side. You can hide a plugin from some, or all, selectors manually.Categories
 Categories in effect selector |
You can assign category names to plugins. These categories will appear in plugin selectors. A 'My Compressor' plugin with a 'COMP' category name, for example, appears in effect selectors as 'COMP - My Compressor'. Plugins with a category will appear at the top of the list in plugin selectors.It's best to use very short category names, so the names fit the selectors.
Override name
You can override the names that appear in selectors.Override slot text
By default the first 4 or 5 characters of the plugin name appear in effect/instrument slots. You can override these texts. You might want to do this if a bunch of plugin names start with the same company name, for example. Note: slot texts must be very short, typically not more than 4 or 5 characters.
Keyboard Focus
MultitrackStudio tries to prevent plugins from stealing keyboard shortcuts for transport control (see Controlling the Transport). If this causes problems you can check the Keybrd box to disable this feature.Sidechain input plugins
Some older VST2 plugins use a second plugin to pick up sidechain input. This does not work reliably on multi-core computers. This option adds a "Sidechain Plugin" box, you can load the input plugin here and use the MTS sidechain routing.Under the hood
The plugin manager settings are stored in a file called "/Library/Application Support/MultitrackStudio/Plugins.txt".
VST2 Plugin folder
VST plugins are typically located in the user or system Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST folder, so there's no need to specify a folder here. You can specify an additional folder if you have one.