SKNote Disto

[musicman691]

SKNote Disto is the developer's take on an EL Distressor and Fatso Junior. The gui has two Distressors and the Fatso Junior. The plugin has Dave Derr's blessing and he's supposed to be working on some presets for this. My question is on the install. There are separate downloads for aax format for use in PT and for vst/au format. The oddball thing is the developer says for au format on OSX to rename the plugin product.component; unzipped it is a vst plugin by default. The actual question is aren't vst and au format plugins different programs? How can one plugin serve both (not at the same time of course) where one copy is disto.vst and another copy is disto.component?

http://www.sknoteaudio.com/wp/index.php ... h-midside/

I think the reason this plugin has Derr's blessing is he in the guise of Empirical Labs is working on another compressor called Arousor. See here: http://www.empiricallabs.com/arousor.html

[bayswater]

Make a copy, rename it and try it. What do you have to lose? I've heard of something along these lines before but still the logins were issued in two versions.

[musicman691]

Make a copy, rename it and try it. What do you have to lose? I've heard of something along these lines before but still the logins were issued in two versions.

I already did that as I sort of alluded to in my post. It does work but that's the question: almost every other plugin installer (this one doesn't have an installer; it's all manual) will give you an option to install or not vst, au, aax, etc. formats. Is it all as simple as changing the plugin suffix to differentiate between au and vst?

[bayswater]

Is it all as simple as changing the plugin suffix to differentiate between au and vst?

Clearly not with most plugins. But as I said, I've come across this before.

[Robert Randolph]

Make a copy, rename it and try it. What do you have to lose? I've heard of something along these lines before but still the logins were issued in two versions.

I already did that as I sort of alluded to in my post. It does work but that's the question: almost every other plugin installer (this one doesn't have an installer; it's all manual) will give you an option to install or not vst, au, aax, etc. formats. Is it all as simple as changing the plugin suffix to differentiate between au and vst?

The "file" is a directory, not a file. It contains a directory structure that is compatible with both vst and au.

[musicman691]

Make a copy, rename it and try it. What do you have to lose? I've heard of something along these lines before but still the logins were issued in two versions.

I already did that as I sort of alluded to in my post. It does work but that's the question: almost every other plugin installer (this one doesn't have an installer; it's all manual) will give you an option to install or not vst, au, aax, etc. formats. Is it all as simple as changing the plugin suffix to differentiate between au and vst?

The "file" is a directory, not a file. It contains a directory structure that is compatible with both vst and au.

Oh? And you know this how? Not trying to be snarky but really want to/need to know.

[mikehalloran]

Not trying to be snarky but really want to/need to know.

What does the developer say?

[musicman691]

Not trying to be snarky but really want to/need to know.

What does the developer say?

Hasn't said a word in reply to my contact with him.

[Robert Randolph]

To be specific, there's a library in the folder that supports calls required by both the VST and AU spec. You can right click on your 'file' and select "Show package contents". Or from a terminal you can go there and use the nm -D command on the file to see what function calls it supports.

Why do I know this? Because I used develop plug-ins until I became wiser.

(also, I screwed up the language in my first reply. It should have read "It contains a directory structure and a library that is compatible with both the VST and AU spec")

[musicman691]

To be specific, there's a library in the folder that supports calls required by both the VST and AU spec. You can right click on your 'file' and select "Show package contents". Or from a terminal you can go there and use the nm -D command on the file to see what function calls it supports.

Why do I know this? Because I used develop plug-ins until I became wiser.

(also, I screwed up the language in my first reply. It should have read "It contains a directory structure and a library that is compatible with both the VST and AU spec")

Thanks for the detailed explanation. Like I said it seemed odd to do what the developer said to do - never seen that one before.

BTW it's a pretty good plugin and at only $39US there shouldn't be too many complaints. Couple that with the fact it's the only Distressor in software on the market should make it even better. And the developer continues to work on little things for it.