Installation

To ensure that you take advantage of the latest features and fixes, it is recommended that you run the most recent setup executable; this is made available at studio-units.com/download. It will replace an existing installation, if one exists.

Follow the instructions presented to you by the setup executable, and install Studio Units in your system's standard plugin directory. If you are not sure where that is, then you should use the default location suggested by the installer. If, in the future, you want to move the plugins to a different location, you will need to uninstall first and then reinstall them.

Studio Unit plugins can only be used inside a suitable plugin host (currently VST 2.4 on Windows). If you do not already have a sequencer, multi-track recorder or other application that is capable of hosting this type of plugin, then you will need to install one before you can proceed.

After the Studio Units setup program has completed, you may still need to tell your host application or applications to scan for new or updated plugins, in the location that was specified during the installation. If it isn't immediately obvious how to do this, please refer to the host application's own documentation.

Once your host application has found the new plugins, and is prepared to load them, please select an instance of the SU effect plugin and open its editor.

If everything has gone according to plan, you should be presented with the following window:

If you have purchased a licence, you can proceed to activate Studio Units, by clicking yes. If not, click no and continue in demo mode. There is no time limit on the demo; activation may be performed at any later date, by clicking the activate button at the bottom of the options window.

The difference between the activated version of the software and demo mode is that in demo mode some white noise is added to the output of unlocked patches, from time to time. Locked patches, such as those supplied in the Studio Units library, will not have the noise added to their output, even if demo mode is in effect.

In demo mode, it is only possible to create new patches of your own that are unlocked. Activation enables you to create your own locked or unlocked patches. If you only use patches from the SU library, or locked patches acquired from other sources, then activation is not necessary. Any locked patch can be easily unlocked at any time, whether running in demo mode or not, by ticking the unlock option at the top of the load SU effect / synth window, prior to loading the patch.