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FXpansion VST to AU Plug-In Wrapper (Macintosh)
Converts VST plug-ins to AU format. Now compatible with Logic 7 and more.
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Description
VST-AU Adapter is a must-have utility for Emagic Logic Audio / OS X users. Once installed, it makes all your OS X VST* plugins compatible with the new AudioUnit standard used by Logic Audio. VST-AU Adapter is all you need to access hundreds of plug-ins from a huge range of vendors.
*OS X-compatible ("Carbon" or "Mach-O") VST plug-ins only.
The VST to AudioUnit Adapter for Mac OS X is a highly-integrated plug-in wrapper that allows users of AudioUnit-compatible applications such as Emagic's Logic Audio 7.x and MOTU's Digital Performer 4.x (as well as Logic 6, Final Cut Pro 4.x, Soundtrack, Garage Band and many others) to integrate VST plug-ins and instruments seamlessly in to their working environment. Once installed and configured, the wrapper creates "virtual AudioUnits" for each of your VST plug-ins, which behave exactly the same as true AudioUnits in every respect. It uses virtually no CPU (less than 0.1% per instance on a 550MHz PowerBook G4), and offers total compatibility with a huge selection of VST plug-ins from a wide range of vendors.
FXpansion has tested the adapter succesfully with plug-ins from all the following vendors: Steinberg, Waves, TC-Works, Prosoniq, LinPlug, MDA, reFX, Ohm Force, Synapse Audio, DSound, PSP, Waldorf, INA-GRM, Elemental Audio, Arturia, AAS, Bitshift Audio, Bitheadz, DMI, GMedia, Green Oak, Rumpelrausch Taips, Spectrasonics, Swar Systems, Yellow Tools, Silverspike, Destroyfx, Antares, DigitalFishPhones, Rob Papen Virtual Instruments.
It's also incredibly easy to use!
Step 1: copy your VST plug-ins to the adapter's folder.
The VST to AU Adapter comes with its own VSTPlugins folder -- copy any Carbon VST plug-ins you want to wrap in to this folder.
Step 2: Run the configuration utility
Run the configuration utility which lets you choose which class of Mac OS X VST plug-ins you want to scan, and whether you want to install the virtual Audio Units for everyone that uses your Mac, or just for your own use.
Step 3: Press the "Scan..." button
When you press the Scan button, the adapter scans its VST plug-ins folder for plug-ins to be converted to virtual AudioUnits. It can take it a minute or two to complete the scan, especially if you have a lot of plug-ins, but once it's done -- that's it! Your VST plug-ins have now been wrapped to AudioUnits and are ready to use in your AudioUnit-compatible application.
Step 4: Start your AU-compatible host!
All your VST instruments are available as AudioUnits
Step 5: Check out the effects...
Step 6: Go make some music!
... need we say more?
*OS X-compatible ("Carbon" or "Mach-O") VST plug-ins only.
The VST to AudioUnit Adapter for Mac OS X is a highly-integrated plug-in wrapper that allows users of AudioUnit-compatible applications such as Emagic's Logic Audio 7.x and MOTU's Digital Performer 4.x (as well as Logic 6, Final Cut Pro 4.x, Soundtrack, Garage Band and many others) to integrate VST plug-ins and instruments seamlessly in to their working environment. Once installed and configured, the wrapper creates "virtual AudioUnits" for each of your VST plug-ins, which behave exactly the same as true AudioUnits in every respect. It uses virtually no CPU (less than 0.1% per instance on a 550MHz PowerBook G4), and offers total compatibility with a huge selection of VST plug-ins from a wide range of vendors.
FXpansion has tested the adapter succesfully with plug-ins from all the following vendors: Steinberg, Waves, TC-Works, Prosoniq, LinPlug, MDA, reFX, Ohm Force, Synapse Audio, DSound, PSP, Waldorf, INA-GRM, Elemental Audio, Arturia, AAS, Bitshift Audio, Bitheadz, DMI, GMedia, Green Oak, Rumpelrausch Taips, Spectrasonics, Swar Systems, Yellow Tools, Silverspike, Destroyfx, Antares, DigitalFishPhones, Rob Papen Virtual Instruments.
It's also incredibly easy to use!
Step 1: copy your VST plug-ins to the adapter's folder.
The VST to AU Adapter comes with its own VSTPlugins folder -- copy any Carbon VST plug-ins you want to wrap in to this folder.
Step 2: Run the configuration utility
Run the configuration utility which lets you choose which class of Mac OS X VST plug-ins you want to scan, and whether you want to install the virtual Audio Units for everyone that uses your Mac, or just for your own use.
Step 3: Press the "Scan..." button
When you press the Scan button, the adapter scans its VST plug-ins folder for plug-ins to be converted to virtual AudioUnits. It can take it a minute or two to complete the scan, especially if you have a lot of plug-ins, but once it's done -- that's it! Your VST plug-ins have now been wrapped to AudioUnits and are ready to use in your AudioUnit-compatible application.
Step 4: Start your AU-compatible host!
All your VST instruments are available as AudioUnits
Step 5: Check out the effects...
Step 6: Go make some music!
... need we say more?
What Our Customers Say About zZounds
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FXpansion VST to AU Plug-In Wrapper (Macintosh) Reviews
10 out of 10
"best solution for AU."
Quality:
it works!
Sound:
it just gives me a solution to Logic Pro Audio unit verification head spin. Nothing compare to this VST-AU invention. very cool!
Ease of Use:
just install and scan vst plugs and Walla! all vst plugs appears in Logic AU insert.
it works!
Sound:
it just gives me a solution to Logic Pro Audio unit verification head spin. Nothing compare to this VST-AU invention. very cool!
Ease of Use:
just install and scan vst plugs and Walla! all vst plugs appears in Logic AU insert.
Submitted: 09/23/2006
Style of Music: any
8 out of 10
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"Transparent VST access for Logic - as advertised!"
Quality:
Simple configuration interface. No more knobs or doo-dads than needed to get the job done.
Value:
This opens up the world of VST insert and instrument plugins to use Logic folks. If you need VST's and use Logic then you need this utility. Would have been nice if it came with a handful of demo VST's to quickly verify functionality, but I guess if you're buying this you already have some VST's in mind and/or in hand.
Overall:
Assuming I don't find a bunch of VST's that don't work properly with the adapter, I expect to be using this for a long time.
Simple configuration interface. No more knobs or doo-dads than needed to get the job done.
Value:
This opens up the world of VST insert and instrument plugins to use Logic folks. If you need VST's and use Logic then you need this utility. Would have been nice if it came with a handful of demo VST's to quickly verify functionality, but I guess if you're buying this you already have some VST's in mind and/or in hand.
Overall:
Assuming I don't find a bunch of VST's that don't work properly with the adapter, I expect to be using this for a long time.
Submitted: 07/08/2004
Style of Music: Techno and Ambient
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