Pluggo Troubleshooting

Every minute or so, the audio output of my plug-in sounds um... interesting. What's going on?

To stop this from happening, you need to enter your authorization code. The Authorize Pluggo chapter of the Pluggo Getting Started manual tells you how to do it.

I've got some questions about a Pluggo plug-in's parameters and would like to check out your helpful documentation. Where can I find it?

It is copied to your hard drive when you install Pluggo. If you're a Windows user, you can find it at C:\Program Files\Cycling '74\Pluggo\Documentation

If you're a Macintosh user, you can find the documentation in the Pluggo Applications folder inside the Applications folder.

I can only use a couple of the pluggo plug-ins on my computer before everything starts to slow down a lot. Can you help?

Signal processing on your computer takes a lot of the CPU. pluggo plug-ins vary in how much processing time they will use. The pluggo Plug-in Reference Guide uses an adjective from light to heavy for each plug-in to characterize roughly how processor-intensive a plug-in is likely to be.

Some applications let you "freeze" or "render" a track - essentially, it lets you bounce a single track to disc, creating a new audio track that includes the plug-in's output. You can use this feature to make the best use of your CPU.

When I clicked on an egg slider in the Generic Effect plug-in, the egg turned red and the cursor disappeared until I released the mouse button. What did I do?

You either double-clicked on the slider or held the Option key (Macintosh) or Alt key (Windows) down while clicking on the slider. This puts the slider into "fine mode" in which changes to parameter values can tweaked with more detail than when you normally drag on the slider. In order to do this, we need to hide the cursor.

Is there any way to undo editing a parameter in a plug-in's edit window?

Yes. Control click (Windows) or Command click (Macintosh) in any pluggo edit window, and you'll get a pop-up menu with Undo and a bunch of other fun things such as a Randomize command and the ability to copy the settings from any other effect program into the current one.

Using the command-click pop-up menu, I chose 6. Hello From Jail from the Copy from Program submenu. But I'm still on Preset 1, and the name of the preset is still Car Bomb. That seems like a bug.

Copy from Program only the copies the values of the parameters in the preset you choose from the submenu. The number and name of the current program remain unchanged. In fact, these cannot be changed by the plug-in without leaving the user interface of the sequencer in an inconsistent state.

I inserted the Mouse Mod (Key Triggers, Audio2Control, Breakpoints, etc.) plug-in but I don't hear it doing anything.

These plug-ins are pluggo Modulators that generate information used to control other plug-ins. You choose the other plug-in from the Assign pop-up menus contained within the Modulator plug-ins. Modulators pass their audio inputs to their outputs unchanged.

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 VstPlugins (such as Logic Audio or Digital Performer) now use AudioUnit 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 AudioUnits plug-in. This happens with many other VstPlugins, too. It's a host application problem - ideally, the host application should keep an internal database of all VST > AudioUnit plug-in matches, so that it knows that it should now be looking for an AudioUnit plug-in. You should contact the creators of your host application to ask them about it.
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