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StrangeLoopsAudio / gRainbow

A synthesizer that uses pitch detection to choose candidates for granular synthesis or sampling.
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VST3 plugin does not integrate with Audacity on MacOS #100

Closed nikodenn closed 3 weeks ago

nikodenn commented 1 month ago

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Copy plugin into the /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3 folder
  2. Remove quarantine attribute from the plugin

  3. Run Audacity and open Plugin Manager (Effect->Plugin Manager in Audacity main menu) ==> Plugin manager of Audacity does not find the plugin (BTW, Audacity usually does plugin rescan automatically on startup when some new plugin has been put into the /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3 folder, but not in this exact case)

    • Audacity 3.6.4
    • OS: MacOS Ventura 13.7
    • gRainbow version 1.0.3
bboettcher3 commented 1 month ago

@nikodenn it probably isn't finding it because gRainbow is a VST instrument, not an effect. It takes MIDI input to produce its sounds. As far as I understand, audacity doesn't support VST instruments.

nikodenn commented 3 weeks ago

@nikodenn it probably isn't finding it because gRainbow is a VST instrument, not an effect. It takes MIDI input to produce its sounds. As far as I understand, audacity doesn't support VST instruments.

Yeah, this seems to be a reason. Thank you.