restricting plug-ins from loading

[~Murda Me~]

hi i was wondering if there is a way to have pro tools not load up all plugins when it starts and to only add them later when i need them thx

[dave911]

No, there is no selective loading.
You can stop all of them from loading at startup, but otherwise everything in the PT plugin folders will load.

[~Murda Me~]

how do you stop them all from loading in the beginning?

[Dism]

Originally Posted by ~Murda Me~

how do you stop them all from loading in the beginning?

If you stop them from loading, you won't be able to use them in a session later without having to restart Pro Tools. Is there a purpose to this?

[dave911]

Hold down the shift key during startup.

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by dave911

Hold down the shift key during startup.

This actually does not stop the plugins from loading. It makes every plugin in the session inactive(its a handy way to find out if a plugin is causing a session to crash though). Any plugin that you remove from the Plugins folder will not be loaded(and not available until you put the files back and restart Pro Tools).