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Shifrin ·
Hi,
OK, I was having a play with a little test synth I made and exported to VSTi. It was loaded in the 'sequencer' component in EnergyXT (latest 1.4 beta 5th June).
Everything seemed fine until I inserted an effect on the channel with my VSTi, guess what happened? The output from the VSTi dropped by abour 6db!!! Added another insert effect, dropped another 6db, added another insert effect, dropped another 6db!!! This seemed to happen regardless of the effects I used!
I'm unsure whether this is a SM bug or an XT bug - as all the other VSTi's I tried in the 'sequencer' component of XT worked fine when I added insert effects!
Shif.
Shifrin ·
Just something to add, this only happens with VSTi's exported with one output, i.e. a single mono out! And it happens for every effect I try, even if I set the effect to output 100% dry signal (if the effects gives you the choice)!
I can live with it no problem after finding it works fine for stereo out, but you know, it's an odd bug! Maybe it's XT's fault.
Shif.
Nu Audio Science ·
That is strange, I have to use EXT as a wrapper for some SM plugs in Tracktion to get them to work ?
rl ·
I could imagine, that XT threats your VSTi as a mono device. Maybe there is an assumption, that the imaginary 2 outputs should be mixed and normalzed (r+l)/2, which in your case (only 1 out) results in r/2
Shifrin ·
Thanks guys, this is NOT a bug in SM, it is a bug in XT!!! I tried another mono-out VSTi and the same thing happened.
Cheers,
Shif.
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