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-layout: default
-title: Plugins Tab
-menu_title: Plugins Tab
----
-
-<p>
- This tab contains settings that control the discovery and availability of
- plugins.
-</p>
-
-<img src="/images/a4_preferences_plugins.png" alt="preferences
-plugins tab"/>
-
-<ul>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>General</strong>
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>Scan for Plugins</strong> will initiate an immediate scan of
- the system for available plugins.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>Always Display Plugin Scan Progress</strong> When enabled a
- popup window showing plugin scan progress is displayed for indexing
- (cache load) and discovery (detect new plugins).
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>Scan Time Out</strong> Specify the default timeout for plugin
- instantiation in 1/10 seconds. Plugins that require more time to load
- will be blacklisted. A value of 0 disables the timeout.
- </p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>VST</strong>
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>Clear VST Cache</strong> Remove all VST plugins from the list
- of plugins available to be inserted into the processor box.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>Clear VST Blacklist</strong> Make blacklisted VST plugins
- available to be added to the processor box.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>Scan for [new] VST Plugins on Application Start</strong> When
- enabled new VST plugins are searched, tested and added to the cache
- index on application start. When disabled new plugins will only be
- available after triggering a 'Scan' manually.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>Linux VST Path:</strong> Launch a dialog to manage the
- directories that will be searched for Linux VST plugins.
- </p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-</ul>