Step machine is in the style of the step sequencer, although it is a midi loop sequencer. But to use it, you need to support midi output from the VST plugins. It offers control of the velocity, loop, pitch, octave, gate, and slide through each step as the host plays. A very detailed plugin for those looking for a professional touch. C: Program Files(x86) VSTPlugins for 32 bit plugins. Some programs will already look in that directory structure already. Otherwise just add that path to the DAWs VST settings. I wish Steinberg would change the spec and make it a hardwired path like VST 3 is. Zero reason to allow the vendor to wing it and put tuff wherever they want. There are multiple locations that VST folders can appear. For sanity's sake I always make 2 folders c: Plugins & C: plugins64 - add the path to Reaper and make sure I always copy VST DLL to these locations.

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• Make sure that Reaper is looking for the folder i which the VST is located. With luck you will have a folder somewhere called 'VST plugins' or similar into which you have put the VST.dll files, or into which you've unpacked zipped VSTs. It doesn't matter if they are in a different folder.
• However, Reaper has a message on the preference page that reads: If multiple VSTs are scanned with the same dll name, only one will be available; either the plugin found later in the path list, or highest in the directory structure for a given path. It is possible that some of these VSTs are loaded more than once.

Step 1.1 Download the Virtual Instrument (VSTi)

Reaper Vst Plugins Path Finder

From this page download the BassMidi VSTi 1.2 zipfile. Free vst visual. Index of vst plugins.

Step 1.2 Unzip that file to your VST plugin directory

Two Common directories for VST plugins:

• C:Program Files (x86)SteinbergVstPlugins
• C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesVST3

If either of these folders exist or if you have admin privileges on your computer you can unzip the contents of the zipfile to one of the above folders. Since I’m working on a computer with no admin rights I had to make a portable install of Reaper in this folder C:REAPER so I navigated to C:REAPERUserPlugins and made a folder called VST.

Step 1.3 Make sure Reaper knows where your VST has been unzipped to

1. In REAPER, press [Ctrl] + P (Windows) / [Cmd] + [,] (Mac) to access Preferences.
2. Go to Plug-ins > VST.
3. Under “VST Plugin Path,” make sure that the path where you placed your plugins is listed (if not, add it)… see the screenshot for how I added C:REAPERUserPluginsVST after the other two default folders.
4. Click on Re-Scan and your instrument should be available within Reaper.

Step 2.1 Time to download a Soundfont to open within the VSTi we just installed

A free GM/GS soundfont has been shared here Reality_GMGS_falcomod.sf2 (version 1.2)
Thanks to Falcosoft for sharing the soundfont on this page

Step 2.3 Unzip the Soundfont to a folder / directory where you will store your soundfonts

You might choose to make a folder called “Soundfonts” in a location where you keep your loops and other audio resources… perhaps within the Reaper folder or another area on your computer where you keep things organised.

Step 3.1 Time to try inserting a Virtual Instrument into Reaper using the VSTi and Soundfont we just downloaded.

Note: If Step 1.3 went smoothly and you Re-Scanned the VST folder Reaper should be able to find the new plugin… If not, try re-scanning or perhaps try restarting Reaper. If that fails you will need to check that the directory to where you extracted the VST files is included in the VST plugin folders that Reaper looks in (as per the screenshot in 1.3). If that fails you might need to ask me for some help 🙂

Reaper Vst Plugins Folder

Insert > Virtual instrument on new track

Display the Virtual MIDI piano (Alt+B)

Hopefully you can now hear the sound of a piano when you make use of the virtual MIDI piano

Download some free Soundfonts

Some links that might have some to check out…

• A Blog post listing tonnes of different Soundfonts
• On the Musescore website they have a few more soundfonts available.

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Install Sforzando Sound Font player as it works on Mac or Windows