Intel Mac And Vst Problem

Help, Support & Bugs
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I tried renoise yesterday. It is very nice! Everything runs well on my intel mac. Everything except i can’t get any vst to work. I see the vst plugins in the vst list, but when i add this effect to a track, i just see this text in the fx box : VST-plugin was not found

I tried about 4-5 different VSTs. I am not used to VSTs. I uncompressed them in ~library/audio/plugins/VST or something like that. Renoise can see the plugins cause i can see them in the plugins list but i just can’t use any. Perhaps someone can tell me about a plug in they know that works on an intel mac.

It is the only problem i have with renoise.

Thanks in advance!

xonox

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Well, Windows specific dll vst’s don’t work on mac.
Here’s one plugin that has a (universal binary!) Mac VST version:
http://bigblueamoeba.com/mirror/greenoak/files/Crystal.dmg

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initializing the program i was told i had a buggy vst… so, dumped the demo of the UVI universal player… and now trying to figure out how to re enable my vst’s…i’m told to go to Renoises Config->misc/vst tab …maybe i’m stupid but cant locate this…any ideas… apologies for dunderheadedness…i’ll probably find it staring me in the face after i’ve posted this…thnxz

oh yeah…on a Macintel

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ignore that last message…I found the missing tooth just as i reached the dentists…

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Thanks for the replies. Thanks vvoois for the plugin suggestion. It worked right away. Seems that most vst plugins i downloaded weren’t compatible with renoise for one reason or another. I found another one that worked, it is called soulforce. Unfortunately the web site is giving me errors right now so i can’t confirm the url for it…

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Because you have an INTEL MAC on OS X, you need to find plugins for it.

That means PPC Plugins for OS X don’t work. That means PPC Plugins for System 8 don’t work. That means Windows DLL Plugins don’t work.

Look harder, very few plugins for INTEL MAC exist at the moment. But more are compiled every day.

Good luck.

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One way to do what Conner Bw suggested is to use the search-engine on KVR

http://www.kvraudio.com/get.php

Remember to check “OSX” and “Universal Binary” and uncheck the other fields at the OS-option.

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Indeed, i was trying out ppc vst plugins at first. But even when trying universal binary osx plugins, i have troube finding compatible plugins. For instance i tried the demo of audiorealism bassline. No workie…

Thanks for confirming that there is a fairly low number of universal binary vsts right now.

Anyways, i shouldn’t rely too much on vsts for making music currently. There’s already plenty to do with renoise :)

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xonox,
unless I’m horribly mistaken, Audiorealism haven’t released a Universal Binary version of their bassline VST.

Maybe you tested the Audio Unit (AU)? That would explain your difficulties, anyway, since Renoise doesn’t support AU.

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From their webpage, they say the universal binary has just been released. No big deal, i just wanted to play with it a bit.

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From KVR: “AudioRealism has released a beta Universal Binary AU version of Bass Line for Mac OS X (v1.531 beta). A beta demo version is also available.”

So there’s a Universal Binary AU-version available of Bassline, not Universal Binary VST.

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I have the same problem as xonox. Very few vstplugs for intel osx… but I have also experienced that a fair bit of the few universal binaries that are released, doesent work with renoise, (an exaple is the great free plugins from camel audio.)

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The camel audio plug ins are not yet universal, so they wont work yet. I know its currently a pain to find compatible VST plugs for the intel mac. We should try to get AU support as soon as possible into Renoise. AU is a lot more supported on the intel architecture…

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As soon as possible, eh taktik? In principle that would mean beta5… you do realize that? ;)

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Not THAT soon. Really, cant add such big stuffs into a beta.

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I would also be quite happy with AU support for renoise on mac.
I have just switched over the mac and was bummed to find that not only can i not use many VSTs and I have an Intel-mac but that renoise does not support audio units…

Looking forward to the support :)