Getting XP VST plugins to work with OSX?

[elenore19]

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!


Elliot

 

[Elton Bear]

Boot camp loads Windows in a separate application, and you can run both alongside each other. Whether or not there's a way to use plugins on OSX without the whole Windows OS I'm not sure.

 

[santiu]

actually, boot camp is the dual boot system. Parallels is the program that will launch windows as an application. I haven't had much luck with parallels and getting the audio drivers to work properly, or any drivers for that matter, so I think you'd have a hell of a time getting the two sides to talk to each other.

I think the only thing you can do is use bootcamp boot into windows (I'm assuming you have an intel mac, and a copy of windows), and just run windows.

 

[elenore19]

I already have bootcamp and everything installed. I just wanted to know if there was like a converter of some sorts so that I could use some Windows VST plugins on OSX.

 

[dementedchord]

-seems i remember awhile back people were useing what was then called a wrapper to try to do cross platform stuff with Very Limited succsess... dont think it's worth the effort...

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GFRC_enUS220US220&q=vst+osx+wrapper

G.

 

[Steenamaroo]

perhaps not orthadox,,,but i do know that waves bundles are readily available as cracked vsts for xp etc,,,,but mac versions are rare,,,if they exist,,,

that would lead me to believe that there isn't a reliable easy to use converter,


to clarify,,i'm not supporting the use of cracked software.

 

[guitar zero]

I think this is the program you need, but I don't have it. I've been thinking about it. Anyone who's tried it? Does it work?
http://www.jrrshop.com/fxpansion-vstau-wrapper-p-2115.html

 

[dementedchord]

ya might try the KVR forums...

 

[Steenamaroo]

its not gona work on xp vsts,,,,taking them to mac is it????

 

[guitar zero]

From the add page:

FXpansion VST-AU Wrapper
[AU Wrapper] $79.00USD



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The VST to AudioUnit Adapter for Mac OS X is a highly-integrated plug-in wrapper that allows users of AudioUnit-compatible applications such as Emagic's Logic Audio 6.x and MOTU's Digital Performer 4.x to integrate VST plug-ins and instruments seamlessly in to their working environment. Once installed and configured, the wrapper creates "virtual AudioUnits" for each of your VST plug-ins, which behave exactly the same as true AudioUnits in every respect. It uses virtually no CPU (less than 0.1% per instance on a 550MHz PowerBook G4), and offers total compatibility with a huge selection of VST plug-ins from a wide range of vendors. It's also incredibly easy to use - just check out our step-by-step guide! We've tested the adapter succesfully with plug-ins from all the following vendors:- Steinberg, Waves, TC-Works, Prosoniq, LinPlug, MDA, reFX, Ohm Force, Synapse Audio, DSound, PSP, Waldorf, INA-GRM, Elemental Audio, Arturia, AAS, Bitshift Audio, Bitheadz, DMI, GMedia, Green Oak, Rumpelrausch Taips, Spectrasonics, Swar Systems, Yellow Tools, Silverspike, Destroyfx, Antares, DigitalFishPhones, Rob Papen Virtual Instruments.

Sounds like it should work.

 

[antichef]

those VSTs can be compiled for Mac or Windows -- if they're compiled for Windows, they'll be in the form of a DLL or something, and I don't believe the wrappers will load them correctly in OSX. If they're compiled for Mac, then it *should* work, but watch for flakiness.

A lot of the interesting-looking free VSTs appear to be only released in windows-compiled form these days -- sigh...

Use dual boot, and use Reaper

 

[Steenamaroo]

thats what i meant to say

thanks.