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<p>
- This tab contains settings that do not belong on the other tabs.
+ This tab contains settings that control the discovery and availability of
+ plugins.
</p>
<img src="/files/a4/a4_preferences_plugins.png" alt="preferences
<ul>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Scan for Plugins</strong>
+ <strong>Scan for Plugins</strong> will initiate an immediate scan of
+ the system for available plugins.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Allow Display Plugin Scan Progress</strong>
+ <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>
+ <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>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Clear VST Cache</strong>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <strong>Linux VST Path:</strong> Launch a dialog to manage the
+ directories that will be searched for Linux VST plugins.
</p>
</li>
</ul>