New VST>AAX Wrapper coming

[Carl Kolchak]

Apparently the new version does allow you to host VST's, and successfully acts as a wrapper.

[Top Jimmy]

Originally Posted by Carl Kolchak

Apparently the new version does allow you to host VST's, and successfully acts as a wrapper.

Holy Crapoly Carl! I stand corrected. I have Magma and am running to download the update. Do you know if it compensates for delay on the parallel processing paths?


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[John_Toolbox]

This is also not the only plugin that allows you to host a "VST plugin within another format plugin", which essentially elminates the need for a wrapper. Vienna Ensemble Pro and Plogue Bidule also allow you to shoehorn VSTs into Pro Tools as well. I don't think there's an AAX version of Bidule yet, but there definitely is one for VEP.

[Top Jimmy]

Originally Posted by John_Toolbox

This is also not the only plugin that allows you to host a "VST plugin within another format plugin", which essentially elminates the need for a wrapper. Vienna Ensemble Pro and Plogue Bidule also allow you to shoehorn VSTs into Pro Tools as well. I don't think there's an AAX version of Bidule yet, but there definitely is one for VEP.

Yeah, but as I understand them, VE Pro and Bidule are "Rewire" type environments that run outside of Pro Tools whereas Magma is not. Is this not so?


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[DonaldM]

Carl,
I clicked on the link which took me to Nomad Factory, but I don't see anything about a wrapper there. What am I missing?

Thanks

[Top Jimmy]

Read the details re Magma. Can load VST plugins now. I haven't checked yet to see if it can do VST instruments too.


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[John_Toolbox]

Originally Posted by Top Jimmy

Yeah, but as I understand them, VE Pro and Bidule are "Rewire" type environments that run outside of Pro Tools whereas Magma is not. Is this not so?


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Bidule in rewire mode only sends audio one way, from bidule in to pro tools. I could have sworn that you could open an RTAS instance of Bidule and then load a VST or AU plugin in that, but apparently not.... they're missing from the menu if you open it as a plugin.

VE pro, while technically a separate app, does allow bidirectional audio since version 5. I don't think it technically uses the propellorhead rewire protocol, but it's a similar situation. I haven't used that feature enough to know how well it works, but it's definitely possible.

[Emcha_audio]

Originally Posted by DonaldM

Carl,
I clicked on the link which took me to Nomad Factory, but I don't see anything about a wrapper there. What am I missing?

Thanks

Probably the same thing that happened with sugar bytes wrapper.

[Top Jimmy]

So I installed Magma 1.5 and opened it in PT. the first thing I had to do was manually scan the VST plugins folder. This took a few minutes, and Magma rejected over 30 of them. It turns out that the rejects were instruments. Magma will not load instruments, but it does FX.


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[TOM@METRO]

I'm installing it now.