diff --git a/src/effects/Effect.cpp b/src/effects/Effect.cpp
index 7f2dc9ca7..7aac82161 100644
--- a/src/effects/Effect.cpp
+++ b/src/effects/Effect.cpp
@@ -774,10 +774,10 @@ bool Effect::ProcessTrack(int count,
    // samples to the output track.
    //
    // Upon return from the effect, the output samples are "moved to the left" by
-   // the number of samples in the current latency setting, effectively removing the
+   // the number of samples in the current latency setting, effectively removing any
    // delay introduced by the effect.
    //
-   // At the same time the total number of delayed samples are gathered and when the
+   // At the same time the total number of delayed samples are gathered and when
    // there is no further input data to process, the loop continues to call the
    // effect with an empty input buffer until the effect has had a chance to 
    // return all of the remaining delayed samples.
@@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ bool Effect::ProcessTrack(int count,
 
       // "ls" and "rs" serve as the input sample index for the left and
       // right channels when processing the input samples.  If we flip
-      // over to processing delayed samples, the simply become counters
+      // over to processing delayed samples, they simply become counters
       // for the progress display.
       inLeftPos += curBlockSize;
       inRightPos += curBlockSize;
diff --git a/src/effects/EffectManager.cpp b/src/effects/EffectManager.cpp
index f87eeccc3..ff6eb6a59 100644
--- a/src/effects/EffectManager.cpp
+++ b/src/effects/EffectManager.cpp
@@ -454,6 +454,8 @@ void EffectManager::RealtimeProcessMono(float *buffer, sampleCount numSamples)
       return;
    }
 
+   // We only ever have a single input channel
+
    wxMilliClock_t start = wxGetLocalTimeMillis();
 
    float *ib = (float *) alloca(sizeof(float) * numSamples);
@@ -461,21 +463,21 @@ void EffectManager::RealtimeProcessMono(float *buffer, sampleCount numSamples)
 
    memcpy(ib, buffer, sizeof(float) * numSamples);
 
-   float *ibuf[1] = {ib};
-   float *obuf[1] = {ob};
+   float *ibuf = ib;
+   float *obuf = ob;
 
    mRealtimeMutex.Lock();
    for (int i = 0; i < mRealtimeCount; i++)
    {
-      mRealtimeEffects[i]->RealtimeProcess(ibuf, obuf, numSamples);
+      mRealtimeEffects[i]->RealtimeProcess(&ibuf, &obuf, numSamples);
 
-      float *tbuf[1] = {ibuf[0]};
-      ibuf[0] = obuf[0];
-      obuf[0] = tbuf[0];
+      float *tbuf = ibuf;
+      ibuf = obuf;
+      obuf = tbuf;
    }
    mRealtimeMutex.Unlock();
 
-   memcpy(buffer, ibuf[0], sizeof(float) * numSamples);
+   memcpy(buffer, ibuf, sizeof(float) * numSamples);
 
    mRealtimeLatency = (int) (wxGetLocalTimeMillis() - start).GetValue();
 }
diff --git a/src/effects/EffectRack.h b/src/effects/EffectRack.h
index f4fb1b8bf..1f557f61f 100644
--- a/src/effects/EffectRack.h
+++ b/src/effects/EffectRack.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ public:
    EffectRack();
    virtual ~EffectRack();
 
-   void Add(Effect *effect, bool active = true, bool favorite = false);
+   void Add(Effect *effect, bool active = false, bool favorite = false);
 
 private:
 
diff --git a/src/effects/VST/VSTEffect.cpp b/src/effects/VST/VSTEffect.cpp
index c8c721e7f..158a603f7 100644
--- a/src/effects/VST/VSTEffect.cpp
+++ b/src/effects/VST/VSTEffect.cpp
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ wxArrayString VSTEffectsModule::FindPlugins(PluginManagerInterface & pm)
    pathList.push_back(dpath);
 
    // Recursively scan for all DLLs
-   pm.FindFilesInPathList(wxT("*.dll"), pathList, files);
+   pm.FindFilesInPathList(wxT("*.dll"), pathList, files, true);
 
 #else
 
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ wxArrayString VSTEffectsModule::FindPlugins(PluginManagerInterface & pm)
    }
 
    // Recursively scan for all shared objects
-   pm.FindFilesInPathList(wxT("*.so"), pathList, files);
+   pm.FindFilesInPathList(wxT("*.so"), pathList, files, true);
 
 #endif