How To Reinstall Vst Plugins Reaper

07-03-2021 by

REAPER user Khatcha send me an email today with a tip to help those on Windows that found some of their VST plugins were tiny after the REAPER 6.0 upgrade.

Go to Plug-ins VST. 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: REAPER UserPlugins VST after the other two default folders. Click on Re-Scan and your instrument should be available within Reaper. Most VST plugins simply extract and lump themselves into the vstplugins directory which is read and processed by the sequencer. There is no information written to the registry in the first place. Obviously, this situation is different for something with an installation procedure - say BFD.

I’d like to give a useful tip concerning the version 6.xx on Windows only and it’s about the issue with plugins scaling on 4K monitors (or probably less).

With this recent version of Reaper, all my plugins were drastically shrunk and it was impossible to work with such a small UI resolution.

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I tried to find the problem with the Advanced UI/ System Tweaks on Reaper but that didn’t help me.

I even tried to change some parameters in the Theme development options but it was unsuccessful.

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I finally found the issue, I’ll give to you so you can spread it better than me :

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  • Go to the properties of the file “reaper.exe” (ALT+ENTER shortcut or Right-Click on the file and select “Properties”) and go to the “Compatibility” tab.
  • Click on “Change Hi DPI Settings” and you will have 3 options: Application, System and System Enhanced. Switch to System or System Enhanced et voila!

Of course, keep in mind that REAPER 6 is very new and these things are likely to change and improve in the coming months. Reporting your experience to the official forum with your system info, problem plugins, settings and workarounds is the only way things can improve for all.

The 6.02 update has some changes in this regard, Justin sent me a message on Twitter.

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6.02 has a per-plug-in setting to allow the floating FX to be hidpi-unaware. Or you can go to preferences/general/advanced settings, and change the HiDPI Awareness mode to “Unaware” (which makes the behavior match 5.x).

How To Install Vst Plugins Reaper

Justin Frankel

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If you try this workaround, let us know in the comments if it worked for you as well.

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