Ableton Live Plugins on new Macbook Pro

masonjames · Post by **masonjames** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:03 pm

Hey all,
I just installed Live Lite 6 on my new macbook pro and am unable to get any of the plugins working. I am trying to use some free plugins available from MDA just to test out Live. I installed the plugins into my Audio>Plugins>Components directory as specified on the MDA site, and have tried multiple times to restart or rescan the directories from within Live, but it still will not show any of the installed plugins. I have also tried running Live in demo mode, but this doesn't change anything.
If I try to drop a plugin file directly into Live I get the following error:
"An error occurred while reading... Apparently, the document was created by a more recent, and incompatible, version of Live than this. [Unknown Compound Stream Type]"
So... er... any ideas? Thanks in advance!

anti-banausic · Post by **anti-banausic** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:13 pm

I don't know about the error message, but I don't think that the MDA plugs are Universal Binary. When Apple made the switch to Intel processors developers had to recode some parts of their plugins to be compatible with the new processors.

You need an Universal Binary version of plugins to be able to use them on the new IntelMacs.

masonjames · Post by **masonjames** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:40 pm

according to the mda-vst.com website, the plugins are "compatible with Mac OS 10.3.9 or later, and with Macs using Intel x86 processors."
I also have Live installed on windows xp through parallels on my macbook pro, and it has various plugins installed and working correctly, but I can't get windows xp to recognize my m-audio firewire 410, so I can't use that for recording (yet).
Any other ideas?