Which offer built-in 32/64 bit bridging along with (adjustable) scaling of non-aware plugins within High-DPI environments ?
Until they do that, they're not offering a better 'host' environment.
BC PatchWork vs NF Magma vs Nyrv Agent
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- KVRist
- 419 posts since 11 Jan, 2014
I've not tried the others but between Patchwork and Metaplugin I much preferred the latter due to much better features such as vst 2 & 3 support and per plugin mix control.
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- KVRAF
- 1985 posts since 14 Mar, 2006
when you say per plugin mix control, what do you mean exactly? Patch work allows you to adjust the level of each parallel chain.
Have you ever tried loading a waves plugin into metaplugin? I hear it doesn't work, its not smart enough to deal with the waves wrapper bundle, but patchworks is smart enough for that.
The advantage of metaplugin is more sophisticated signal paths are possible, if you really need that.
I came up with a reason for it yesterday... I wish I could put one synth with multi outs into the PRE section of patchworks...and then use each of the 8 parallel chains to process each of the separate outs from that synth separately. Patchwork doesn't seem to provide that routing possibility and of course that would be possible with metaplugin, though it would result in a rather scary looking page of wires.
What I do like about patchwork, its clean looking and for most cases, the routing is sufficient. Also, you can use it to host VST midi plugins in the MFX midi plugin slot of Logic/Mainstage. Also it loads waves plugins properly as previously mentioned. I'm also generally impressed by the software engineering skills of BlueCatAudio
Have you ever tried loading a waves plugin into metaplugin? I hear it doesn't work, its not smart enough to deal with the waves wrapper bundle, but patchworks is smart enough for that.
The advantage of metaplugin is more sophisticated signal paths are possible, if you really need that.
I came up with a reason for it yesterday... I wish I could put one synth with multi outs into the PRE section of patchworks...and then use each of the 8 parallel chains to process each of the separate outs from that synth separately. Patchwork doesn't seem to provide that routing possibility and of course that would be possible with metaplugin, though it would result in a rather scary looking page of wires.
What I do like about patchwork, its clean looking and for most cases, the routing is sufficient. Also, you can use it to host VST midi plugins in the MFX midi plugin slot of Logic/Mainstage. Also it loads waves plugins properly as previously mentioned. I'm also generally impressed by the software engineering skills of BlueCatAudio
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35414 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
They work fine in MetaPlugin if 'unwrapped' via xlutop vst2shell.Dewdman42 wrote:Have you ever tried loading a waves plugin into metaplugin? I hear it doesn't work, its not smart enough to deal with the waves wrapper bundle
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"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate.
Red is Red and anything that is Red is an object, a class in itself or a real thing if you prefer"