VST FOR MAC

PedroDominicanRepublic · Post by **PedroDominicanRepublic** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:00 am

man i been downloading vst but non of them work.. my mac computer running ablten cannot read the fxp files or anything even thow i can see them when i set my vst folder to the folder full of vsts.. WHATS GOING ON I NEED TO MAKE BEATS NOW!!!! LOL somone help me

membrain · Post by **membrain** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:22 am

fxp files are the presets for VST's not the actual vst themselves. (I think)

http://www.apulsoft.ch/freeports/

http://www.macmusic.org/software/?lang=en

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PedroDominicanRepublic · Post by **PedroDominicanRepublic** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:34 am

haha thanks yo.. but the prob is my ableton just cant detect any vst.. some of the vst witch i need to instal to my hardrive wont even let me do that.. has any1 ever faced this problem... im not sure if my apple is missing any programs for me to read the vst files properly..

membrain · Post by **membrain** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:08 am

Make sure they are the mac version of the VST. Have a look in the folder

mac hd/library/audio/plugins/VST

do the files have the extension .vst ?

If that's ok, go to live preferences/file folder/ and in the plugin sources section - make sure use vst plugins is lit and rescan plugins.

Any luck?

PedroDominicanRepublic · Post by **PedroDominicanRepublic** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:41 pm

nope they dont show up.. i instaled a mac version of the steinberg hypersonic plug in but the different vst are exe files. im dieng

ewistrand · Post by **ewistrand** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:30 pm

Are you running an IntelMac? If so, your plugins have to be UB...

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PedroDominicanRepublic · Post by **PedroDominicanRepublic** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:12 pm

mac os x version 10.4.10 mac hd

membrain · Post by **membrain** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:41 am

PedroDominicanRepublic wrote:nope they dont show up.. i instaled a mac version of the steinberg hypersonic plug in but the different vst are exe files. im dieng

Those are pc files

.exe is a windows executable

There is a few ways these plugins get distributed. If it's a complex/commercial vst it will have an installer that you run and it will place various files where they need to go. Otherwise it might just be the vst or audio unit file that you have to place in the right folder in the library.

Mac files will be blah.dmg, or blah.pkg. They might come compressed as a blah.sit or blah.zip , after they get put in the vst or component folder they will be blah.component or blah.vst

They won't ever be blah.exe, you may have downloaded spyware or a trojan that someone has renamed and posted as a desirable program so people install it. Don't worry, it won't work on a mac, it's just web crap.

What plugins do you want?

VST FOR MAC

VST FOR MAC

Mac versions

exe is PC