New Vst Wrapper - Available as Audio Units

aliasant · 7 May 2010

attic wrote: Noticed this and thought I would post it. I haven't tried it.

This application creates wrappers for your VST plug-ins that will make them available as Audio Units in programs like Logic Pro and GarageBand.

http://code.google.com/p/vstau/

Macintosh only. Nothing to do with SM Im afraid.

MichaelBenjamin · 7 May 2010

attic wrote: wacvst Wacvst (windows-mac vst) is a tool that will wrap Windows native VSTs for use with Intel Mac OS X based VST hosts.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wacvst/

whats with this one? maybe someone with a mac could try it with the example synth.

attic · 7 May 2010

I found this on another forum.

As the developer of wacvst, I can attest to the truth of fxpansion's observation. I basically started wacvst as an experiment (and to run dbglitch!). I never really planned on making it a project, but when I saw some demand on this forum I cleaned the code up a bit and put it out there for people to bang on. Getting it to run requires quite a bit of in-depth computer knowledge. Based on the feedback I've gotten, it is quite clear that making it generally easy to install and work with a wide range of vsts would be a large effort. Even with that, there are still going to be vsts that either don't work or don't work well. The time I personally devote to wacvst is somewhat limited and my efforts are mainly in the area of improving its base functionality as opposed to improving the overall installation and use experience.

Fxpansion "we don't think a Wine-based adapter (which, at best, with several years' work, would work with maybe 80-85% of available Windows VSTs) would be up-to-scratch as a commercial product on OS X" With the changes in OSX, things have become increasingly difficult to make projects like this work. So the work of retroware who wrote the wrapper is as good it gets. http://sourceforge.net/projects/wacvst/

nix · 17 May 2010

I have a Mac, I tried playing with these, but couldn't get either to work. I think infuzion could tell us if they are viable solutions, I think he has a Mac. Edit: You need to do command line stuff and install Wine for wacVST, maybe i try sometime

attic · 17 May 2010

I did a little bit of a try also and they didn't work for me. 🙁

JerseyCoder · 13 Feb 2011

I was able to get the wacvst to work on my mac with Ableton and it was awesome. Yes, it takes installing the Wine software (which is free), but I was able to get my z3ta+ VST (just a PC based DLL) to run under ableton..

Here's a pic of it!! Attached Totally awesome!

It's a bit buggy though and doesn't run perfectly. I'm looking to establish a github project around it, but cant get in touch with the project admin despite having sent an email through the sourceforge contact info. Anyone know how to get in touch with the orignal author of wacvst?

Cheers!