If Cubase was already open then I’d recommend closing and opening it back up again since it won’t detect the new plugins as soon as they are installed unless you do so (or you could re-scan for new plugins, but more on this later in the post). To install a new plugin you need to execute the installation file, select the installation path (I’d recommend leaving it as is so that it gets installed into the default folders) and that’s it! The installation path of a plugin depends on several factors:

How to install VST plugins for Cubase in Windowsįirst of all, it is important to understand that not all VST plugins are being installed into the same folder. In this article, I will show you how to install plugins, what those default folders are, how to tell Cubase where some additional plugins might be installed, and how to re-scan those folders to update the plugin list available for use in Cubase. However, sometimes new plugins don’t get installed into those default folders for a reason or another and you need to let Cubase know where it can find them. Load up Serum and we think you’ll be able to notice both what you hear (solid high frequencies, extending flat all the way up to the limits of hearing) as well as what you don’t hear (no unwanted mud or aliasing gibberish- just good, clean sound).Generally, plugins already have a default folder where they get installed in and most DAWs will automatically scan those folders and add those plugins to the ones you can use.

In Serum, the native-mode (default) playback of oscillators operates with an ultra high-precision resampling, yielding an astonishingly inaudible signal-to-noise (for instance, -150 dB on a sawtooth played at 1 Khz at 44100)! This requires a lot of calculations, so Serum’s oscillator playback has been aggressively optimized using SSE2 instructions to allow for this high-quality playback without taxing your CPU any more than the typical (decent quality) soft synth already does. Many popular wavetable synthesizers are astonishingly bad at suppressing artifacts - even on a high-quality setting some create artifacts as high as -36 dB to -60 dB (level difference between fundamental on artifacts) which is well audible, and furthermore often dampening the highest wanted audible frequencies in the process, to try and suppress this unwanted sound. Artifacts mean that you are (perhaps unknowingly) crowding your mix with unwanted tones / frequencies. Without considerable care and a whole lot of number crunching, this process will create audible artifacts.

Playback of wavetables requires digital resampling to play different frequencies.

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