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postbop64
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Plugin crashing DP

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A few years ago I was using a G5 with both Plugsound pro and Machfive 2 (which both use an ilok) on Digital Performer. I upgraded to a MacBook pro and I'm using dp 7.22. I've reinstaled Machfive 2 and that works fine. The problem is the Plugsound plugin. I never liked Plugsound and haven't used it for years so I trashed everything I could find related to Plugsound. When I start up DP with the ilok in (for Machfive) everything loads fine until the plugsound plugin then the program crashes. When I start up the program with no ilok, the plugsound plugin asks for authorization, I say no, and everything loads up. So, somewhere on my computer is this rouge Plugsound plugin. I looked in the libary/Audio/ plugins. But I didn't see anything there that was a plugsound related plugin. Any ideas?
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Re: Plugin crashing DP

Post by 1nput0utput »

Digital Performer supports MAS and AU plug-ins directly. Those plug-ins would be in one of these directories:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS/
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS/

If you have a VST-to-AU adapter plug-in, then it's possible that DP is loading the adapter plug-in which is loading the VST plug-in:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/
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Re: Plugin crashing DP

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Trash Digital Performers Audio Unit Info Cache. The Plugsound is till linked in this file.
By trashing the Audio Unit Info Cache, DP will rescan all your plugins and create a new Audio Unit Info Cache file without Plugsound involved.
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