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Ableton Live, Intel Macs & the Plug in problem
 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2008-07-31 17:19 [#02226769]
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Does anyone have any more info on this? Any tricks, tips,
workarounds? I found a little info online but not much...
nothing that can fix the problem.

I got a new macbook pro earlier this year, and went about
the business of re-d/l all my VSTs. Well so I found out
Universal Binary AUs are the new standard, and thats fine,
most had that version available. Most of them do not show
up though.

Is there a middleman host, workaround, anything I can do? I
am running Live 5.2 .. does v7 fix it?


 

offline Quoth from Sweden on 2008-08-01 16:37 [#02227048]
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Have you downloaded soundflower from cycling 74? This is for
audio. On your plugins, can you run them natively without
the need of a host app ie; ableton? If so, simply route the
plugin audio-output to any track within ableton. You can
then create a template with the specified audio tracks. I
prefer working on vst's as stand alone applications.
Integrating them into your host based DAW causes too much of
a headache. I think that you lose focus on the musical
aspect of things... what sounds good, should be good. It
shouldn't matter how you incorporate your sounds into your
DAW however. Call me crazy but sometimes VSTs ruin the
actual output of the computer systems memory.... too much is
consumed to simply display the app. How much memory do you
have installed on your mac book pro?


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2008-08-01 17:19 [#02227057]
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Thanks, I don't have soundflower but I'll try it. I did
download some freeware AU hosts, and even tried Garageband,
to see if they would recognize the plug ins in question and
they didn't. It recognized the same ones Live did only.

There are some classics like DestroyFX, Cyanide, CrazyIvan
that I would love to still use, but maybe they just aren't
compatible

I have at least a gig of ram. It might be 2.

 

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