6.10 Advanced Plug-in Defaults
There are a number of options available in the Add FX browser which you can use to define default settings for individual plug-ins.
Kind: concept (user-guide-section) Chapter: 6 Managing Track and Item FX Source: REAPER User Guide v7.70
There are a number of options available in the Add FX browser which you can use to define default settings for individual plug-ins. These will automatically be applied to that plug-in instance whenever it is added to a track or media item. Most of these deal with advanced technical matters: if you a relative newcomer to digital audio, you might wish to skip over this section. You can access these by right-clicking over any plug-in name in the FX browser list. Right-click on any FX in the FX browser for a menu of options. Most of these are explained in the section Track FX Basics. In addition, the following options allow you to set individual plug-in defaults.
Menu Item Submenu options
Run as
The default setting is Automatic, but you can change this to any of Separate process, Dedicated process, Native only (prevent bridging. There is also an option to Embed the bridged UI. For more information, see Bridging and VST Plug-in Run Mode.
Compatibility settings
This is especially useful for plug-ins that might have known or suspected compatibility issues. You can enable or Options available are Save minimal undo state, Avoid loading undo states where possible, Inform plug-in when track channel count changes, Hard reset on playback start, Hard reset on playback start, Save state as VST bank, Buggy plug-in compatibility mode, HiDPI compatibility mode
when floating windows.
There is also a further sub-menu to manage Automation notifications. Options are Defaults (set in preferences), Ignore when plug-in window not open, Ignore when not from UI thread, Ignore all notifications, Process all notifications. For more information about some of these options, see the section VST and VST3 FX Compatibility Settings.
Default settings for new instances
Any of these options can be enabled if you wish them to be automatically applied whenever the particular FX is added to a track or item: Send all keyboard input to plug-in, Show embedded UI in TCP or MCP (if supported), as well as a sub-menu of options for FX instance oversampling. Options are Up to 88.2k/96k, Up to 176.4k/192k, 352.8k/384k, or Up to 705.6k/768k. The section FX Chain and FX Chain Options explains oversampling.