Installing VST Effects and Loading Them Into Kristal
The first step for setting up Kristal is to get the VST effects loaded into Kristal, so after you haved downloaded and unzipped/installed/etc. the plugins onto your hard drive, open the folder that you installed the effects in and look for any files that have the extension ".dll" (some of the stuff I posted in the
freebie list will have several of them)... Then copy the dll files into the folder called "Plugins" inside of the folder where Kristal Audio is installed. The Plugins folder is automatically created when Kristal is installed.
* TIP * - Here is an organization thing that I use when installing a lot of plugins, since I have quite a few of them to say the least.
As an example, plugins like the MDA effects come with a lot of plugins, so create a folder called MDA inside of Kristal's Plugin folder and place all of the dll files from MDA inside of the MDA folder. Do this for any plugin that you have 3 or more from the same company and instead of having one massive list with everything organized alphabetically, you'll have them in smaller lists grouped by company which makes things a lot easier to find in your recording program. Here's a screenshot I took of Kristal to show how it should look when you're done.
See attatched Image.
So now when you start Kristal, all of your effects should load automatically. Once you are in Kristal, press the F3 button (this opens and closes your mixer) and click on one of the empty effects slots that says "No FX" and a list of all of your installed plugins should appear...... If this doesn't work for anyone, then post in the
Discussions on Members' Lessons Forum and I'll try to help figure it out.