I’ve done this to use EXS24 within Logic in a DP session, and to access UAD plugins from a computer without a UAD card.īut this takes a very long time to set up, and you have to get into complicated routing to deal with additional latency resulting from the transfer of data between DAWs or computers. You can do this within one computer or across two computers. Transport can be send from on to the other to keep them in sync. Pricing has not yet been announced, but Lehmkuhl promises it will be "very competitive" with established offerings.Īt Superbooth 19, Lehmkuhl will be demonstrating the prototype UNIFY each day at 17:00, at the new U-He Lounge at booth H524.Using facilities like InterApp MIDI and virtual Audio Devices like the successors to SoundFlower, you can have two DAWs running at the same time, and have one as a slave to the other. It is expected to be available the third quarter of 2019. UNIFY is being developed as a collaboration between Lehmkuhl and Canadian software developer Shane Dunne, author of the free NetVST project and a core contributor to AudioKit. Going from PC to Mac or vice versa involves additional conversion steps, for which UNIFY provides some support.įinally, live performers will appreciate the ability to develop composite sounds inside a DAW in the studio, then take them unchanged to the stage using the stand-alone UNIFY apps for both Mac and PC. On the same platform (Ableton to Logic Pro on Mac, Reaper to Cubase on Windows) this is easy. It's effectively a "portable Combinator". This is essential for DAWs like Logic Pro X, which assign only one CPU core per track.Īs a tool for creating, saving and playing composite presets using multiple plug-ins, UNIFY will simplify the process of sharing sounds, even with people who use different DAWs. Multi-threading capability allows complex plug-in combinations on a single DAW track, taking advantage of multiple CPU cores in ways the individual plug-ins cannot. On Windows, built-in support for jBridge allows it to load legacy 32-bit VST plug-ins into 64-bit-only DAWs like Cubase. VST or VST3 plug-ins can be used in Logic Pro X, which normally can host only Audio-Unit plug-ins. It allows DAWs to use plug-ins which they could not use directly, e.g. It's intended primarily as a platform for future multi-plugin sound libraries, several of which are already in development by Lehmkuhl and other well-established sound designers.Īs a "wrapper" for other plug-ins, UNIFY offers some highly useful capabilities: It ships with a library of composite sounds, many of which are built entirely with free plug-ins, so it's ready to play "out of the box". It offers a familiar, DAW-like design and work-flow. Metaplugin by DDMF, PatchWork by Blue Cat Audio, or the "Combinator" built into Propellerhead's Reason) in three main ways: UNIFY differs from established plug-in aggregation products (e.g. It will be available as both a plug-in (VST, VST3, and Audio-Unit at launch, AAX later), and a stand-alone application, for macOS and Windows. UNIFY is a plug-in which loads other plug-ins, in order to create composite sounds using any combination of software instruments with MIDI- and audio-effects. Today at Superbooth, veteran sound designer John "Skippy" Lehmkuhl () unveiled his first commercial software product, called UNIFY. You can always get straight back to this starting page by clicking on the logo at the top left above. The following pages are English-only (at least for the moment):Ĭommercial deployment of NetVST-like technologies Working with specific DAW (plugin host) programs YouTube Videos (Demonstrations of NetVST capabilities and setup) More advanced experiments based on NetVST technology are now being done as part of AudioKit.Ī new commercial product called Unify, scheduled to launch in early January 2020, will be the first commercial product with NetVST technology built-in. As of this writing, the primary collaborators are Shane Dunne and Hermann Seib. The NetVST project is a collaborative effort to develop a way to use virtual audio effect and synthesizer plugins across local-area networks. Is there a VST wrapper that would allow a Windows VST to run as an AU? Can NetVST do this - or is there a combination of software packages that could let me work with it?īelow may not work on macOS 10.15 Catalina or above I use Logic Pro X for my music creation which of course runs on a Mac, There's a particular VST that I want to use (Superwave Equinoxe - essentially a one-stop-shop for Jean-Michel Jarre sounds ) - however it's only available as a Windows VST. Quote from: Antonuzzo on March 12, 2020, 06:16:51 AMĪpologies if this has already been asked and answered.
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