How Do You Debug Vst/au Not Showing Up For Mac
In Cubase, the Native Instruments software is used via the VST plug-in interface. In order to use your NI plug-ins in Cubase 8, you must ensure that Cubase scans the folders where your NI VST plug-ins are located.
This article describes this procedure for both Mac and Window systems. Note: Cubase 8.5 is the last version compatible with 32-bit plug-ins. All later versions support 64-bit plug-ins only. Mac On a Mac computer all VST files are automatically installed to the same folder so you do not need to define a VST folder during the installation of your NI product.
The VST plug-in folder is located here:. Macintosh HD Library Audio Plug-Ins VST Cubase automatically scans this folder at each startup and recognizes any new plug-in that has been installed.
Windows Installing the NI VST Plug-ins On a Windows computer, the VST plug-ins can be installed to any location on your hard drive. We strongly recommend to use the default installation paths offered by Native Access:. C: Program Files Native Instruments VSTPlugins 32 bit. C: Program Files Native Instruments VSTPlugins 64 bit If you want to install the VST plug-ins to a different location, you can set the path in Native Access before the installation, as explained in.
Adding the NI Plug-in Folder in Cubase 8 No matter where you installed your VST plug-ins, you need to define the correct VST folder in Cubase to make sure that this location is scanned by Cubase at startup. If you are unsure where you have installed the VST plug-ins, open the tab Installed products in Native Access.
Click a product that comes with VST plug-ins (e.g. MASSIVE) and select Installation path. There you can find the VST32 and VST64 location: It is important to keep in mind that if you use the 64-bit version of Cubase, you must add the folder where you have installed the 64-bit versions of your NI plug-ins and, respectively, if you use the 32-bit version of Cubase, you must add the folder where you have installed the 32-bit versions of your NI plug-ins. Follow the steps below to add your NI VST folder to Cubase 8:. Start Cubase, open the Studio menu and select the entry VST Plug-in Manager. In the lower left corner of the VST Plug-in Manager window, open the Plug-in Manager Settings by clicking the cogwheel icon.
In the Plug-in Manager Settings window, click on the Add Path button. Select the folder where your plug-ins are located on your hard drive and press the OK button to proceed. In our example, we select the default Native Instruments 64-bit plug-ins folder VSTPlugins 64 bit, since we are using the 64-bit version of Cubase. If we were using the 32-bit version of Cubase, we would have chosen the VSTPlugins 32 bit folder instead. The new path is now listed in Cubase's plug-in paths. Press the Rescan All Paths button to rescan the folders listed in the Plug-in Manager Settings.
Cubase notifies that new plug-ins have been recognized. Press OK to proceed. Your NI Plug-ins are now listed in the Plug-in Manager window. Instruments like REAKTOR, KONTAKT or MASCHINE will be listed in the VST Instruments tab and effects like GUITAR RIG, DRIVER, etc. In the VST Effects tab. Plug-in Information Additionally, the Plug-in Manager window provides information on the installed plug-ins which can be useful for troubleshooting technical issues. Follow the steps below to obtain information on your NI plug-in.
How Do You Debug Vst/au Not Showing Up For Mac
Select the plug-in you want to obtain information on by clicking its name on the list. Once selected, press the Show Plug-in Information ('info') button on the lower left part of the Plug-in Manager window. In our example, we want to obtain information on the Kontakt 5 plug-in. In the Plug-in Information field, you will find useful information such as the exact version number of the plug-in and the path Cubase uses to load the plug-in.
This field is useful for example to verify if the plug-in version matches the standalone version. Related Articles.
What linux distro and wine version do you have installed? You are talking about the linux version of tracktion and using airwave with it? Iirc you have to use a wine version that has a certain patch activated (xembed protocol) for being able to use the gui functions. Maybe this is your problem, and tracktion handles something different working around the problem? Normally the vst guis should look just like the native plugins. I had quite good results with the wine-rt from kxstudio. I seldom use it though, as I'm trying to keep on to more stable native stuff.
Well - this wine version was probably configured with audio and vst bridging in mind. Some plugins can freeze my vst host though after a random time of usage (this can happen with some programs I run under that wine and load these vsts too, and also with other wine versions from different sources). The others load a bit slow and perform suboptimal in terms of cpu usage. But renoise will load their guis via airwave for me.
As for plugin scanning, yers, I also remember some plugs are very slow loading, some even crashing when trying to scan them, and many also resulting in xruns when opening/loading them, even when they are just scanned. This slow loading is also happening for the first time renoise scans them, afterwards it should use a faster, cached scan method.
You can 'debug' what is happening by deleting the plugin cache.db file(s) in the renoise settings folder to force a full rescan, and then watch the airwave manager lower window part with log level set to 'debug' for all plugins or so, and the renoise status bar and log for which plugins are the bad boys.