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Is anyone out there able to get Vember Audio Surge VST to show up in the list of instruments? I have tried different versions and multiple attempts and I can't get it to show up.

edit: OSX 10.11.3

Unfortunately Surge on Mac is 32-bit only. You could try using a VST bridge, such as jBridge https://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridgem/ However, that site says 10.11 support is still to be implemented.

There is also an audio unit bridge - 32 Lives http://www.soundradix.com/products/32-lives/

Note: I cannot personally vouch for either approach; for my purposes I decided it wasn't worth pursuing since just about everything I use has a 64-bit version these days.

Limbertimbre wrote:Is anyone out there able to get Vember Audio Surge VST to show up in the list of instruments? I have tried different versions and multiple attempts and I can't get it to show up.

edit: OSX 10.11.3

I don't really use Surge, but I have checked it out in the Live 32bit version. On OS X you can install multiple versions side by side easily by renaming the app. Despite Ableton dissuading from this I have not encountered any issues because of this, that I know of. At minimum I have the current version and the beta installed.

Normally I run the 64bit version of Live at all times.

Limbertimbre wrote:Is anyone out there able to get Vember Audio Surge VST to show up in the list of instruments? I have tried different versions and multiple attempts and I can't get it to show up.

edit: OSX 10.11.3

Hi. Surge has been opensourced by Claes. After steady and voluntary development by various programmers, it now runs 64-bit on macOS (AudioUnit, VST2, VST3) and 64-bit on Windows (VST2,VST3). Work is under way to make it run properly on Linux, and we are a packager away from Windows 32-bit VST2.

The package installers for macOS + Windows 64-bit are available at http://surge-synthesizer.github.io.

pedx1ng wrote:Unfortunately Surge on Mac is 32-bit only.

No longer, Surge is available for macOS at 64-bit for free.

If you know any developers who would love to add more features to Surge or otherwise make it work better, tell them to check out
http://surge-synthesizer.github.io/#contributors

The full GitHub repository is at http://github.com/surge-synthesizer/surge


p.s. i use both the 64-bit AudioUnit and the VST2 on Ableton Live 10 with no problems. Just installing Ableton Live 10.1Beta to check out if the Surge VST3 version works nicely, too - as Ableton Live 10 is the first VST3-compatible audio app I have on my computer.