newbie needs help with plugins

[theboinkbaron]

i just got a traveler yesterday, and it came with two free plugins [bbe sonic maximizer and amplitube]. they've installed correctly, but i can't seem to get them to show up in dp 4.6 in the manual it saysa to put them in ~/library/audio/plugins/MAS but i tried that and it didn't change anything. is there something else i need to do or can do?

[chrispick]

Originally posted by theboinkbaron:
i just got a traveler yesterday, and it came with two free plugins [bbe sonic maximizer and amplitube]. they've installed correctly, but i can't seem to get them to show up in dp 4.6 in the manual it saysa to put them in ~/library/audio/plugins/MAS but i tried that and it didn't change anything. is there something else i need to do or can do?

Not sure, but I'm pretty sure those are AU (Audio Units) plugins, not MAS. So, they need to be installed in the "/component" folder, not the "/MAS" folder.

[azusa749a]

BBE sonic maximizer can only be used on Mac OS9 VST or Window.
I've been waiting for the OS X version for a long time.
I don't think it has come out yet.

[theboinkbaron]

on the box it says that the sonic maximizer is compatible with osx but that a vst 2 compliant host application is another requirement. is there a way to get it to work? and does anyone know about amplitube live? also, what do i do about component plugins? do they go in ~/library/audio plug-ins?

<small>[ July 30, 2005, 01:20 PM: Message edited by: theboinkbaron ]</small>

[azusa749a]

Oops, sorry about that. I just found out the OS X ver. is in the BBE disc all along.

Anyway, I installed it using the carbon one. The other one doesn't work.
My set up is DP 4.6, OS 10.3.9.

To use any VST on DP, you'll need either audioease VST wrapper, which I have, or FXpansion VST to AU.
I don't know the VST to AU would work on BBE or not.

For Amplitube if it's a VST you'll need the same thing.

[theboinkbaron]

ok. thanks a lot for the help. hopefully i won't need to add any more posts to this thread.

[chrispick]

Originally posted by azusa:
For Amplitube if it's a VST you'll need the same thing.

Your AmpliTube should already be AU.

[theboinkbaron]

Originally posted by heavypick:
Your AmpliTube should already be AU.

so then where should it go?

[chrispick]

Originally posted by theboinkbaron:

Originally posted by heavypick:
Your AmpliTube should already be AU.

so then where should it go?

/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components

Audio Units (or AUs) are component plug-ins. You'll note they end with the .component extension (or sometimes .bundle).

Anyway...

Doesn't your AmpliTube ship with an installer? With it, you should be able to install all of its available plug-in formats in a single step. No need to do all of this futzing.

<small>[ July 30, 2005, 04:46 PM: Message edited by: heavypick ]</small>

[BKK-OZ]

The Amplitube installer disk I got only had the VST version on it. I had to download the 'demo' AU version and then unlock it with my serial.

A bit of a pain to do that, but it works as an AU just fine.

Mind you, I really wish IK would get their act together and start shipping products that have us DP users in mind too.

-See the other thread(s) on problems with Sonik Synth and Sonic Tank -several problems (pretty bad too) known to IK that they neglect to tell you about b4 you buy.