Scintillate

I was just playing around for a few hours and this is amazing! loved it.

Great sounding plug in but the GUI is buggy (VST3 version on Windows 11). In Ableton Live 12 it only displays the GUI properly if I open the plugin on my second monitor, otherwise it only shows part of the GUI. In Reason 13 the plugin doesn't resize properly - the knobs get overlayed on top of the spectrum display if the user tries to use the resize buttons.

Got it to display properly in Reason by switching the 'Windows auto scale' toggle to 'on' in the plugin manager. This will help the three of us that use Reason! It's such a nice sounding plugin I had to keep fiddling.

Apologies, I accidentally pressed the "Remove" instead of "Reply" button in your initial message. I am working on fixing this today, if you reach out to me via support@sweet-audio.net, I will send you a test build before release - otherwise, check back here in the next few days for an update :).

No worries thank you for your work - love the plugin.

This issue has been fixed in Version 1.0.1. Enjoy.

Hi.. I have GUI problems with this too.. Firstly in Reaper, but that fixes itself after clicking the visable zoom buttons. However in Ableton the GUI window that pops up (that' set to encapsulate the whole interface) looks to be the correct size but the actual GUI image is truncated and doesn't expose the zoom buttons.

Any ideas on a fix. Demos looks/sounds great!.

(Windows 11, 64-bit)

Hello! There are known issues with scaling on Windows when your display's scale is not set to something other than 100% in the Display Settings. To work around it in Ableton, right-click the plugin in the browser and toggle "Auto-Scale Plug-In Window".

We are working on a fix this very moment and are planning to release an update once it's ready, hopefully today still.

This issue has been fixed in Version 1.0.1. Enjoy.

Ace! Fixed over here.. smart design tool.. congrats & thanks!!.

Absolutely perfect, thanks again! Brilliant reverb - you got my vote.

I tried installing Version 1.0, but the installer bounced back "Cannot install on this computer" (Intel Mac).

Tried installing new version 1.0.1 and it attempts to install, however, installation fails to complete and crashes... Unknown error... Bugger :L.

I have a similar issue. I'm on MacOS 26 (Apple Silicon), and whenever I try to install (1.0.1), I get through the whole thing before "The installation failed. The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance." pops up :(.

Sad because I really like what I've heard from this plugin.

Thanks for the report.

Based on other user's reports, the reason why installation fails is because your user's presets folder /Users/yourname/Library/Audio/Presets is owned by your system's root user instead of your user account, so installation of Scintillate's factory presets fails.

Your user's preset folder should be owned by your user account instead of root.

Another plugin's installer might have messed this up by accident.

You can fix this either from the Finder or more quickly from the Terminal.

To fix this in the Terminal, open the Terminal and run.

sudo chown "$(id -un):$(id -gn)" "$HOME/Library/Audio/Presets"

and enter your password when prompted.

To fix this ownership in the Finder:

- navigate to ~/Library/Audio/Presets in the Finder.

- right-click the Presets folder and click "Get Info."

- click the lock icon in the bottom right corner to be able to make changes.

- under "Sharing & Permissions", select your user. Add it to via + button first if it's missing from the list.

- open the action menu (three dots) at the bottom and choose "Make <username> the owner."

- ensure the user's privilege is "Read & Write"

- rerun the installer.

I hope this helps, and we're going to explore ways to fix this from our end in the future.

Thanks for the report.

Based on other user's reports, the reason why installation fails is because your user's presets folder /Users/yourname/Library/Audio/Presets is owned by your system's root user instead of your user account, so installation of Scintillate's factory presets fails.

Your user's preset folder should be owned by your user account instead of root.

Another plugin's installer might have messed this up by accident.

You can fix this either from the Finder or more quickly from the Terminal.

To fix this in the Terminal, open the Terminal and run.

sudo chown "$(id -un):$(id -gn)" "$HOME/Library/Audio/Presets"

and enter your password when prompted.

To fix this ownership in the Finder:

- navigate to ~/Library/Audio/Presets in the Finder.

- right-click the Presets folder and click "Get Info."

- click the lock icon in the bottom right corner to be able to make changes.

- under "Sharing & Permissions", select your user. Add it to via + button first if it's missing from the list.

- open the action menu (three dots) at the bottom and choose "Make <username> the owner."

- ensure the user's privilege is "Read & Write"

- rerun the installer.

I hope this helps, and we're going to explore ways to fix this from our end in the future.

I can confirm this was the case on my Apple Silicon mac. I do not know what reset the owner of the presets folder, but it was indeed owned by root. Most VST installers prompt ofr credentials and esclate privileges, so the failure doesn't occure with those. But I must admit it is refreshing to see an installer NOT ask for more credentials than it needs - even if it results in an error.

Thanks for confirming. Unfortunately, a lot of people are hitting this problem and it doesn't make sense to ask everyone to fix their folder privileges. So we'll release an update soon that installs plugins and presets to the global instead of the user-local /Library. That will require admin permissions. It's unfortunate, but because of some other plugin's faulty installer, we're forced to take that route :(.