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greetings programmers and live users...

i have a very simple request to the people at live, and a question for users. i am OBESESSED with reverse delay effects, yet to my amazement, Live does not offer reverse delay! how could this be? i do think reverse delay is a simple effect that could make my life so much easier and, well, psychadelic! so, dear friends at live, could we make this happen? and to live users...is there a way to make this happen? a trick? let me know! GREAT thanks, j.

Hmm, try DFX Transverb or Scrubby:

-- http://www.smartelectronix.com/~destroyfx/

AU and VST available for OS X and 9 users. (And Windows VSTs for the trolls.)

Those fellows make some fun plugs, and the two aforementioned will play buffers of up to 2-3 seconds of a sample in reverse.

Share and enjoy!

-Alex

so i tried to get both scrubby and transverb, and they don't seem to be working. my computer skills are not great. perhaps i am installing them incorrectly. i am running OSX and live, only. let me know! thanks. j

Put the VSTs into your /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/ folder and start Live again.

-Alex

i am sorry to bother you. i have done as suggested, time and time again, and nothing. i don't get it. is there another "library" other than in the HD? weird. j

You may need to be logged in with an administrator-level to access /Library

Otherwise, in your home directory, you have your very own Library folder.

Both:

/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/

and

/Users/username/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/

get scanned by Live and other VST effects hosts. Regardless of the type of account you have, you can access either or both folders.

Also, be sure that you grabbed the OS X version of the two effects:

-- http://dfx.spacebar.org/p/scrubby-carbon.sit
-- http://dfx.spacebar.org/p/transverb-carbon.sit

The OS 9 versions will not work within OS X.

This works for me, so beyond that, I don't know what would be the cause of the problem. Maybe the trolls can step in and suggest buying a Windows machine!

-Alex

thanks!

big help!

have already started spreading the word. j