Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard compatibility

[k-ninja]

Well I've been slowly reinstalling all my logic plugins over the past few days... I'm still using logic 8... a few issues so far:
Audio realism bassline pro crashes logic when the plugin i loaded.
Nexus cant seem to find its sound banks
Most of my PSPaudio stuff works ok. The 608 wont accept the registration code tho.
V-station works fine
camelphat, camelspace and cameleon work fine.

[Storlon]

Wow just rediscovered those apple plugins with a new interface !

[G]

Prosoniq
http://www.prosoniq.com/news/snow-leo-64bit-products/

Karlsruhe, Germany, September 7th, 2009 -- Prosoniq today announces that all its products will be available as 64bit versions for Apple's new 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") MacOS X over the next few weeks. A 64bit version of Prosoniq's OrangeVocoder AudioUnit plug-in has been included as an optional install in the most recent 3.3.2 update that is shipping as of today.

Since 64bit support requires at least building against MacOS X 10.5 ("Leopard") Prosoniq has plans to discontinue the support of their products on MacOS X 10.4 ("Tiger") in 2010, making 10.5 the minimum system requirement for all of its products. Prosoniq recommends their users should make the transition from 10.4 to 10.5 or 10.6 at their earliest convenience.

All 64bit compatibility updates will be free for registered users and will become available as a regular download off the Prosoniq "download updates" web link at prosoniq.com.

[tremolounge]

Waldorf Edition
I got reply from German support (Holger Steinbrink) and I have translated it.

is running fine under Logic 9, not tested under 10.6, but no reasons why not

Not so fast... PPG Wave crashes auval (need to Force Quit) every time, for me. Anyone have it working in SL/Logic 9?

[tremolounge]

Vember Audio Surge won't validate in L9/SL. Claes said (on 9/11) in the vember forums:

"I just found what the AU problem was, hopefully I'll have a fix early next week."

[tremolounge]

I don't think this has been mentioned -- it's a biggy: ALL of the Stillwell and Schwa plugs fail validation in L9/SL. Scott says in their forums:

"Yes, we know. ALL of our plugins currently fail auval in Snow Leopard. This is in the process of being fixed. Hang in there."

Given their superb track record, I'm sure a fix will be along very soon!

[G]

Spectrasonics Stylus RMX
http://www.spectrasonics.net/news/2009/stylus-rmx-now-64-bit/

Stylus RMX 1.9.0e Release Notes

Requirements
This version requires a minimum of OSX 10.5 on the Mac. When using the Audio Unit, your host must be capable of supporting Cocoa plugins.

• Mac 64 bit support
This version includes 64 bit support on the Mac. At the moment, the only 64 bit host on the Mac is AULab 2.0.1, but expect more shortly.

• Logic 9 compatibility
This version provides compatibility with Logic 9, including a fix for the crash when typing in a tempo into Logic's transport window. Also, this version supports the new feature in Logic9 where parameter names are displayed in Logic9's automation menu.

• OSX 10.6 compatibility
Fixes AU Validation problem in 10.6.

• Host Sync Improvements
Fixes a problem where the first beat would be missing when working with slow tempos or large audio buffer sizes.

[Kubi]

Anybody know if the Battery update 3.06 can be installed under SL? The NI plugs famously work but cannot be installed under SL, so I wonder if the same is true for this latest update.

[gbevin]

Anybody know if the Battery update 3.06 can be installed under SL? The NI plugs famously work but cannot be installed under SL, so I wonder if the same is true for this latest update.

Just installed it through service center, seems to work.

[Kubi]

Cool thanks!

[Kubi]

And it worked fine. I used the web download to update.

[Kubi]

Here's my list of what works and what doesn't (so far) in:
DP6.02 in 10.6.1 on an Intel machine (early 2008 8-core MacPro):

First the good: Almost all plug-ins work better, MUCH better, i.e. more responsive controls, quicker and smoother when switching plugs on the fly during looping etc. So far even the ones that aren't 'officially' SL proof (EW Play, Omnisphere, etc.) work just fine or even better than before.

Now, just to be clear, these plugs are all updated to their newest versions and run inside this very combination DP6.02, 10.6.1 and MacPro 8core.. So making no claims how this all works in Logic 9 or something... also, I turned pre-rendering OFF for all plugs in DP6

What broke?

Stillwell/Schwa plugs are not working yet in SnowLeo as most of us know, and Scott is working on an update.

Old Waldorf plugs died: PPG, Attack and D-Pole, no pass AUval.

For NI Massive I at first got an error message it couldn't find a resource file. After a Google search I ended up going into the System folder and change the first letter in one of Massive's resource files name from uppercase to lowercase or vice-versa, but apparently that also happened to folks on Leo on occasion. Looks like NI was sloppy in their lowercase/uppercase when referencing the file in the code, but once I knew that I fixed that in seconds. Works great now.

Other than Schwa/Stillwell, the only ones that broke completely for me are my FXpansion VST-wrapped plugs. Most of those ended up with dead GUIs, though they processed audio just fine. But of course you can't edit sh*t. Most weren't very important to me, they were all freebies. The VST-wrapped D16 Phoscyon works, but you can't access presets. Hoping they release that as AU soon, like their other plugs.

Softube work great, but the cursor for all plugs wiggles a bit when it's over the plug-in GUI. Not very hard, so it's a minor nuisance, and the controls remain responsive. I'll report that to Softube if it continues doing this in DP7.

Waves IR-L and IR-L lite GUI shakes like an earthquake as soon as you edit anything. Stops when you move the plug-in window a couple of times, and restarts shaking as soon as you edit again. Ditto for Supertap 2-tap. All other Waves work great. Now I never use IR anyway (use Altiverb 99% of the time) so I didn't care. Supertap 6-tap works great, so that's my new first call Waves delay.

BFD 1.5 is dead, crashes AUval. BFD2 works like a charm.

NI says you cannot at the moment install their plugs from scratch while in SL, but existing installs work great when the computer gets upgraded to SL with NI already installed. And yesterday's Battery 3.06 update installed just fine here.

Now here's a list of the plugs that so far are working like butter:

112dB redline reverb, all AAS, all Abbey Road, all AraldFX, all Arturia, all AudioDamage, Audioease Altiverb and Speakerphone, all Cakewalk Mac plugs, all CamelAudio, all CodeOperator (in fact *all* my remaining Pluggos work MUCH better than they used to) all D16 Group AUs (not their wrapped VSTs), all Daevlmakr pluggos (great stuff!), all DDMF, EW Play, all Expertsleepers (go to their website for what to do for Crossfade Loop Synth), Fabfilter One, BFD2, all MOTU (as we know apparently not yet Ethno, don't have that), all Mr. Alias (sick stuff), all NI (see note re. "Massive" above), Ohmforce Ohmicide and Frohmage, Breverb, PSP Nitro and PSP Stereopack, QuikQuak Fusionfield and Upstereo, reFuse Lowender, Elemental Audio Inspector XL, Softube with the above mentioned graphical hiccup, Sonalksis (compressors need to have a dummy sidechain input assigned to pass audio, that's a DP6 issue, but work no prob), all Sonic Charge (xcellent stuff), Sonnox TransMod, all Soundhack, all SoundToys, all Spectrasonics, the one single Massey AU he made, SugarBytes WOW, all TAL (gr8 stuff and free, unbelieveable), Sound Guy Backwards Machine, and yes, all Tritone Digital Pluggos (yay!), all U-He synths and effects (now that's sick stuff, amazing software written by a genius in Berlin), all URS (Saturation 2 is essential), Virsyn miniTera, and all Waves with the above mentioned exceptions, which sorta work but not really.

Now, just to make sure nobody gets hurt... - before I did *any* of this I made not one but two clones of my entire system drive. I also did all the plug-in updates and the DP update BEFORE installing SL. Then I did a third clone of that. And then, and only THEN, did I install SnowLeo...

Hope this helps!

[josquin2000]

Thanks Kubi, that's a strong YES indicator... I won't be going to SnL.(PPC G5), but you have convinced me I should go DP7...peeling the $ outta the bread/butter fund now!
j2k

[Kubi]

Thanks Kubi, that's a strong YES indicator... I won't be going to SnL.(PPC G5), but you have convinced me I should go DP7...peeling the $ outta the bread/butter fund now!
j2k

Oooh, while that move may end up being an excellent one, don't do it on account of my experience - we all know the differences between PPC and Intel, and between Tiger and Leo and SnowLeo are pretty big. Well, be sure to have plenty of clones before you proceed...

[ottoman42a]

NI says you cannot at the moment install their plugs from scratch while in SL, but existing installs work great when the computer gets upgraded to SL with NI already installed. And yesterday's Battery 3.06 update installed just fine here.

Thats really odd because I installed my Komplete 5 the Monday after SL came out just fine sooooo….I’m not sure why they re saying that. But hopefully they have good reason.