Macintosh Specific Pluggo Questions
What are your plans to support the Intel announcement by Apple?
As of Pluggo 3.6 - the pluggo runtime and all of our plug-in products are Universal Binaries and support both PPC and Intel processors.
I am using Max 4.6 and Pluggo 3.5.4 (or Mode 1.2.4 or Hipno 1.0.4) and Pluggo is saying it can't load because it can't find the files it needs inside the Extensions folder. What do I do?
This problem is caused when people install the CFMAdaptors that come with Max 4.6. In order for Pluggo 3.5.4 to work you must remove these CFMAdaptors. They are the following 2 files:
- /Library/CFMSupport/MaxCFMAdaptor.shlb
- /Library/CFMSupport/MaxAudioCFMAdapter.shlb
You don't need to worry. Your install of Max 4.6 will still work just fine.
I have a file for my sequencer that I created on my Macintosh in OS 9. When I load it in OS X, I'm getting error messages about my plug-ins not being found or not being loaded. What happened?
Some sequencing applications that previously supported VST plug-ins (such as Logic Audio or Digital Performer) now use Audio Unit plug-ins. When your sequence file is loaded, no plug-in appears because the original plug-in cannot be located, since it's now an Audio Units plug-in. This happens with many other VST plug-ins, too. It's a host application problem - ideally, the host application should keep an internal database of all VST > Audio Unit plug-in matches, so that it knows that it should now be looking for an Audio Unit plug-in. You should contact the creators of your host application to ask them about it.
I inserted the Mouse Mod (Key Triggers, Audio2Control, Breakpoints, etc.) plug-in on a stereo channel in Logic, but now the channel is mono. If it isn't doing anything to the audio (see question above), why is the output mono now?
You probably picked the mono-to-stereo version of Mouse Mod (listed in the menu as "Mouse Mod (m/s)") rather than the stereo-to-stereo version. Logic monos the stereo channel before passing it to the plug-in in this situation. Choose the stereo-to-stereo version and your mixer channel will remain stereo.
I can't send any MIDI controllers to Logic Audio to control my Instrument plug-ins that receive MIDI.
Logic does send controller 1 (mod wheel) and 64 (sustain) to the plug-in.
All other controllers are used for the return, meaning after the plug-ins, this is the audio object or channel itself. There control 7 (volume) and 10 (pan) and a lot of oth-ers are used. Controllers after 64 are used to automate the plug-in controls.
How do I use Pluggo's Virtual Instruments with DP4?
In earlier versions of Digital Performer, a Pluggo instrument was inserted on a regular audio channel, and you routed MIDI output to the virtual instrument. In DP4, you use a MIDI Instrument track.
To create an instrument track, use the Project>Add Track>Instrument Track menu and select the name of one of the virtual instruments. A new track will be created, and the instrument's edit window will appear.
To send MIDI data to the instrument track choose the instrument name from the Output pop-up menu for the MIDI channel you want to use as the instrument's source.
Do I need to use any particular settings in Digital Performer to make Pluggo work?
Yes. Make sure that in your audio hardware settings that you are running DP with a buffer size of at least 512. If it is less than 512 then you may see the CPU usage spike. If you are using Digital Performer 5.0 or greater, we recommend you always run Pluggo-based plug-ins in realtime.
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