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VST FOR MAC
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:00 am
by PedroDominicanRepublic
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
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:22 am
by membrain
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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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:34 am
by PedroDominicanRepublic
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..
Mac versions
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:08 am
by membrain
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?
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:41 pm
by PedroDominicanRepublic
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
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:30 pm
by ewistrand
Are you running an IntelMac? If so, your plugins have to be UB...
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:12 pm
by PedroDominicanRepublic
mac os x version 10.4.10 mac hd
exe is PC
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:41 am
by membrain
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?