Using VST plug-ins with AU software/Logic

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Hello;

I've just read the VST freebie/cheapie thread, and somebody mentioned something called the AudioEase VST Wrapper. How does this compare to the FXpansion wrapper?

In particular, I'm concerned with multi-output VST instruments. I use Logic Express 7 and the FXpansion VST-AU wrapper to convert VST plugins to run as AudioUnits. For the most part, this works OK (coming from Cubase VST on OS9, there are a few plugins, such as Attack, which I have grown used to using). There are some problems: for example, some multi-channel VSTis (Attack among them) don't work in multi-channel mode. (I.e., when I assign sounds to other outputs and assign those to auxilliary tracks, no sound comes out of those channels). Does the AudioEase wrapper work better with multichannel VST instruments?

― acb (acb), Saturday, 8 October 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Don't know how the AudioEase compares to the FXpansion, but bear in mind that a great deal of those freebie plug-ins are actually available as Audio Units, especially the Digital Fish Phones & Smartelectronix stuff.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 8 October 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't use Logic, but in Digital Performer the AudioEase wrapper will give you multi-outs with a VSTi.

― Pablo (Pablo A), Saturday, 8 October 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

doesn't the new version of Performer use another method to work with VSTs?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 8 October 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

Not that I know of. The only ways to use VSTs with Logic/Digital Performer that I know of are the AudioEase and FXpansion wrappers.

― Pablo (Pablo A), Sunday, 9 October 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

What are the main differences between the AudioEase and FXpansion wrappers?

― acb (acb), Sunday, 9 October 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

I just looked at the AudioEase page. It looks like it makes VST plugins look like MAS plugins, not AudioUnits, thus making it useful only to Digital Performer users.

― acb (acb), Sunday, 9 October 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

It looks like it makes VST plugins look like MAS plugins, not AudioUnits

Oh yea, shit, forgot about that, sorry.

― anonnite (Pablo A), Sunday, 9 October 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

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