PC plugin compatibility issue list

[Integratron]

Artura Analog Factory (demo) now works fine on Tracktion 4.1.16.

[Integratron]

Valhallaroom reverb still adds distortion to a rendered midi track using Tracktion send and receive. I tried a number of different VSTi synths so it's not coming from the synths.

Same errant behavior as above with Breverb2. The distortion is like a beating sound as though there was a tremolo in the signal chain.

Tracktion 4.1.16 Windows XP, SP3, core2duo.

[gmore]

Waves V9 plugins seem to work for me with 4.1.13, as does Slate Virtual Tape Machines. Thanks!

IK Multimedia CSR plugins (version prior to Custom Shop) are still not loading. In fact, they're not even in the plugin list after the scan (neither among the successful nor the failed ones).

I'm also getting a lot of crashes when opening/editing/closing plugins within a project, especially if I do this during playback.

Sorry, I know an old post, but is there anything unique you had to do to get Waves V9 to work?
Just loaded on my system with license on USB drive and can't get T4 to recognize.
Any help appreciated,
Thanks.

[Integratron]

I've moved over to Studio One 2. I really like T4 but seems to be unstable these days... slow and locks up.

[gmore]

Thanks for the response.
Read a lot of good things about S1 and may try someday, but T2/3/4 just too intuitive for me at this point to learn something else.
I just figured out how to load Waves and they work, but not certain about whether they're 32-bit or 64-bit? I'll keep working at it until I figure it out or get frustrated enough to switch

[Integratron]

Studio One has a free test drive. Just imagine T4 on steroids... very streamlined and intuitive and with a really slick suit of clothes... much deeper functionality, customization, macros, integrated Melodyne... insanely powerful yet easy to learn and use as it was developed by German musician/software engineers.

[chico.co.uk]

Studio One has a free test drive. Just imagine T4 on steroids... very streamlined and intuitive and with a really slick suit of clothes... much deeper functionality, customization, macros, integrated Melodyne... insanely powerful yet easy to learn and use as it was developed by German musician/software engineers.

I'd a play with Studio One Free (and Reaper, which I bought, but didn't use much) when T3 kind of died a death, in terms of upgrades. I didn't really love either, but people click with different things, and I'm sure different folk would love either of them, for personal reasons, and not get on with Tracktion, not see the appeal. In other words, just because something works for me, no reason anyone else should care, or feel the same. People are different.

Anyway, I didn't dig very deep into Studio One Free after I twigged I couldn't use VSTs (or AUs) in the free version. But I was a wee bit surprised I couldn't use them in Studio One Artist either (the next version up, first one you pay for). You've got to buy Studio One Professional before you can use VSTs or AUs, and that killed it for me, because Studio One Professional is £310.44 for a download version. Sorry, but I'm not paying that just so I can use VSTs I already own. I just haven't got that kind of money lying round to unlock one feature I'd expect to be in the cheapest version (maybe even the freebie version, but limited)

Pricing;
https://www.presonus.com/products/studi ... ofessional

I'm not saying this to diss Studio One, it's just where I got to with it. And I've noticed they quite often do half price crossgrade, or upgrade, maybe even buy outright offers - think they had one over the Black Friday weekend that they mailed me about. So if I was buying, i'd pick it up then, especially if I could crossgrade from Reaper, which I did buy, because I felt like I should, to give something back to the dev for the obvious hard work that's gone into it. So I own Reaper, but don't use it, just because it gets in my way too much, which is subjective, and personal, and everyone else can ignore, and I didn't buy Studio One, because it was too much money just to use VSTs.

I probably would have bought Studio One Artist, if VSTs worked in it. That's £77-ish, I think. VST support shouldn't be a £240 optional upgrade, in my world. I know you get other stuff for the money, but it's so fundamental to how people record stuff on computers these days that it shouldn't be optional.

All just IMO, if you disagree, fair play, people see things differently.

[bk]

You've got to buy Studio One Professional before you can use VSTs or AUs, and that killed it for me, because Studio One Professional is £310.44 for a download version. Sorry, but I'm not paying that just so I can use VSTs I already own. I just haven't got that kind of money lying round to unlock one feature I'd expect to be in the cheapest version (maybe even the freebie version, but limited)

Actually, it's not quite as bleak as that. Studio One Producer includes VST/AU/Rewire support for $199. It was recently being sold for $99, and for a few days in early November it was $69.

[chico.co.uk]

You've got to buy Studio One Professional before you can use VSTs or AUs, and that killed it for me, because Studio One Professional is £310.44 for a download version. Sorry, but I'm not paying that just so I can use VSTs I already own. I just haven't got that kind of money lying round to unlock one feature I'd expect to be in the cheapest version (maybe even the freebie version, but limited)

Actually, it's not quite as bleak as that. Studio One Producer includes VST/AU/Rewire support for $199. It was recently being sold for $99, and for a few days in early November it was $69.

Oops, yes, you're right, I clicked through the wrong link checking the price mid post. It was a while back I last looked, was a bit surprised how expensive it was tbh...

Err, yes, not as much as I said, but still a bit pricey for a daw I personally wasn't totally getting along with. The offer prices are obviouslya lot more iinteresting

[theoldguy]

Hello TSC

I reported that I was having problems with scanning UAD VSTs on Tracktion 4.5.5 and part of the problem is that the UAD Quad card ended up on IRQ 17, a virtual IRQ shared with who knows what.

During scanning, many of the plugins failed - each one accompanied by a BSOD that referred to an IRQ problem. Even with no other cards and no peripherals installed (no printer etc.) Win 7 makes it difficult if not impossible to assign an IRQ. My UAD Quad card did not work in the only other PCIEx slot in the motherboard so I bludgeoned my way through crash after crash until at one point the remaining plugins scanned and initialized successfully. I am now able to use any of the plugins that initialized. All of the plugins except the three that came bundled with the package are demos that you can try and buy. I get to pick three more and fortunately the ones I want scanned successfully.

Just reading some of the other responses, I guess the final test is whether or not they render OK. I'll try that tonight and post if I find any problems.

I don't plan to buy any more UAD plugins for awhile as I am mixing a large number of songs and I will test the ones I have now as I do my work on the current project. Also have to carefully assess my needs before buying because these plugins are quite good but quite expensive and I should probably wait for the list of working plugins that I'm expecting to be published after everyone responds to this topic.

Having said all that  I am going to try to email a screenshot of the ones that failed to initialize and were disabled for you to examine for what it's worth. There 15 in total, too many to list here.  

One last question: Is there a way to delete the plugins that failed to initialize? I have found that I can delete demo plugins that scanned and initialized successfully but not the ones that fail to initialize and are disabled. Im trying to clean up the scan page and clear it of all unused objects.

Thanks for your help and thanks to all of the folks who pitched in with fixes and suggestions, especially Chico and Jabe.

My setup
Home built DAW #4 with T4 Ver. 4.5.5
ASUS P8Z77-V Mobo
Intel 3770 K
16 GB DDR3
128 GB OCZ Vertex 4 C: drive
500 GB WD Black Spin
Roland OctaCapture
Universal Audio UAD2 Quad PCIE card
Win 7

Regards,

theoldguy
 

[thedaz]

T4.5 on Windows 7 64-bit

- Independence Free working
- Sampletank 2 working
- Final Mix basically working (not restoring GUI properly after reloading a project)
- Piano One working

[theoldguy]

[quote="theoldguy"]Hello TSC

I reported that I was having problems with scanning UAD VSTs on Tracktion 4.5.5 and part of the problem is that the UAD Quad card ended up on IRQ 17, a virtual IRQ shared with who knows what.

During scanning, many of the plugins failed - each one accompanied by a BSOD that referred to an IRQ problem. Even with no other cards and no peripherals installed (no printer etc.) Win 7 makes it difficult if not impossible to assign an IRQ. My UAD Quad card did not work in the only other PCIEx slot in the motherboard so I bludgeoned my way through crash after crash until at one point the remaining plugins scanned and initialized successfully. I am now able to use any of the plugins that initialized. All of the plugins except the three that came bundled with the package are demos that you can try and buy. I get to pick three more and fortunately the ones I want scanned successfully.

Just reading some of the other responses, I guess the final test is whether or not they render OK. I'll try that tonight and post if I find any problems.

I don't plan to buy any more UAD plugins for awhile as I am mixing a large number of songs and I will test the ones I have now as I do my work on the current project. Also have to carefully assess my needs before buying because these plugins are quite good but quite expensive and I should probably wait for the list of working plugins that I'm expecting to be published after everyone responds to this topic.

Having said all that  I am going to try to email a screenshot of the ones that failed to initialize and were disabled for you to examine for what it's worth. There 15 in total, too many to list here.  

One last question: Is there a way to delete the plugins that failed to initialize? I have found that I can delete demo plugins that scanned and initialized successfully but not the ones that fail to initialize and are disabled. Im trying to clean up the scan page and clear it of all unused objects.

Thanks for your help and thanks to all of the folks who pitched in with fixes and suggestions, especially Chico and Jabe.

My setup
Home built DAW #4 with T4 Ver. 4.5.5
ASUS P8Z77-V Mobo
Intel 3770 K
16 GB DDR3
128 GB OCZ Vertex 4 C: drive
500 GB WD Black Spin
Roland OctaCapture
Universal Audio UAD2 Quad PCIE card
Win 7

Regards,

theoldguy


Not sure how to do this but here goes - I found the time to make a list of all of the UAD plugins that failed to initialize. Don't know if this will be of any use to TSC but here goes:

UAD API 550A.dll
UAD bx_digital V2.dll
UAD CS-1.dll
UAD DreamVerb.dll
UAD EMT 140.dll
UAD Pultec-Pro Legacy.dll
UAD Roland CE-1.dll
UAD SPL Transient Designer.dll
UAD SSL G Bus Compressor.dll
UAD Teletronix LA2.dll
UAD Teletronix LA2A Gray.dll
UAD UA 1176 Rev A.dll
UAD UA 1176N Rev E.dll
UAD UA 1176SE Legacy.dll

Regards,


theoldguy