Hey there, I\u2019ve been testing my VST plugins in various DAWs to make sure that they\u2019re working as advertised. I\u2019ve found some minor issues that I\u2019ve since fixed, but HEY, let\u2019s get some more detailed reports, eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FL STUDIO AND REAPER: In these DAWs, the plugs are working exactly as they\u2019re meant to. Yup, just plop \u2018em in and everything\u2019s fine. FL Studio is what I\u2019ve been using for the past forty years and is the main software I use to test my pluggies during development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CUBASE AND ABLETON LIVE: The latest versions of these DAWs only support 64-bit VST plugins. Currently, my plugins are 32-bit only, which means that they\u2019re incompatible with these DAWs. HOWEVER, they will work if you run them through a 32-to-64-bit wrapper. I\u2019ve tested a wrapper called jBridge (which costs money but is available in a demo version) and my plugins seem to work fine with it. There is also a wrapper for Mac called 32 Lives but I have no way to test that one out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BITWIG STUDIO: Ah yes, Bitwig Studio. This seems like a cool DAW but it doesn\u2019t like my plugins one bit. Sometimes the pluggos work fine, other times they crash immediately, other times they crash when adjusting a control in the plugin\u2019s GUI, sometimes they get stuck in a crash loop, and so on. I\u2019ve been looking into this crashing nonsense and, as of now, have no idea why it happens. An interesting thing to note is that if you use the jBridge wrapper in Bitwig Studio, my plugins work perfectly fine. I\u2019m guessing that maybe there\u2019re some issues the Bitwig team needs to work on (?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(UPDATE FROM TWO DAYS LATER: I’ve investigated the crashes some more and now my plugins work in Bitwig Studio without crashing! I made some subtle changes to the code that it apparently likes more. I’ve updated the current releases of ToneGen and MIDIGen to include these changes.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NEW PLUGIN COMING SOON.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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