Plug-ins and Collections

The VST Plug-in Manager shows the VST effects and VST instruments that are installed on your computer.

In Cubase, plug-ins are arranged in collections. Only one collection can be active at a time. The plug-ins contained in the active collection are displayed in the selectors, in various locations of the program.

When you launch Cubase, all plug-ins that are found are automatically placed in the Default collection. This is the collection of plug-ins that is active by default.

The Default collection is created each time you start Cubase or initiate a rescan.

You can, however, add your own VST effect or VST instrument collections. This is useful if you only want to see specific plug-ins that are used in a specific project, for example. When you activate this collection, all VST effects and VST instruments of this collection are shown in the selectors for VST effects or VST instruments.