Simple Vst Questions With Deck Bias, Do real time VST comp/lmtr VST exist? Options

[Mixolidean]

Hello,

I am a Music teacher that finds himself solving mac problems for other teachers at school. So, now I have some hopefully simple questions: VST Related. I posted this question in SOFTWARE, but realize I should've posted in this forum......

I see these VST apps in magazines, are they mostly Post Audio import effects? I run DECK BIAS 3.5 on a 600 MHZ 768 RAM G3 Graphite iMac. Deck says it's VST compatible and I have tried downloading some Free VST's, but can't get them to appear in the pluggins.

One last question please: if VST's can be operated on incoming signals, is there a VST that will act as a compressor limiter. I have a Roland compressor for Vocals, but I don't want to have to change the settings for the Keys, Guitar, bass .......etc. If there is such a VST, I imagine it would be processor intensive.

Thanks for your time. Oh, what what does VST stand for?

Thanks again,

Mixolidean

[editbrain]

if your using os x the vst go into the /Users/<your user>/Library/Audio/Plugins/VST folder.

as far as a real time compressor. if you check in your plugins folder in the bias application you should have some basic apple plugins. the compressor is called dynamics or something like that in the menu. you can download some mda VST effects free. i think they are called carbon MDA Vst. search google.
expand the compressed file, drag the file to the folder i mentioned in the first paragraph.

happy recording.