Latest VST-RTAS Adapter?

[Archmart]

Hey Hey!

Is 1.07ua the latest version of the adapter?

Thanks,
Archmart

 

[mersisblue]

I think so ... check fxpansion .com

 

[Demetrious]

If you register it with fxpansion you get a $50 discount on Ver. 2.0 so it only costs $49.

I needed it for my poco, UAD-1 and PT7 combo.

Ver 2 just came in time

 

[bdangler]

Will this new wrapper work with the UAD-1? I was under the impression that the UAD to RTAS wrapper was a special deal of some sort. Should I wait till there is one that is specifically for the UAD? Otherwise, I'd love to get it!! ---B

 

[Demetrious]

It should work with UAD-1 and others, unless fxpansion has done me over :? the UAD-1 version was the only sofware I had registered when they sent me the email offer.

Why has my post gone down to minus 60 odd.

I now I have not posted for a while but damn! taking away maybe 200 posts is a killer :-({|=

 

[Archmart]

Hey Hey!

I would gladly pay $49.00, or even a bit more for a newer, better wrapper, IF it also allowed me to use other VSTs. (That's the way it works, right? And there are lots of free VST plugs out there, right?)

I've been having a lot of trouble since updating to PTLE 7.0, a Digi 002R, and a second UAD-1 with the Flexi-Pak providing the MultiBand and Roland pair... I'm not sure which of these new elements are giving me the problem or if it's a combination and I haven't had the time to really sort through it all.

But if the newer version of the wrapper is just necessary for my system to work properly... then I think UA ought to provide it to me.

But of course, if the upgrade to the full version of the wrapper provides both the additional access to vst plugs AND better performance with my system, I'll be happy to buy it now.

Archmart

 

[Demetrious]

Thats why as soon as I saw the email I bought it. I'm going to check it out when I get to to studio tomorrow.

It's optimised for PT7

 

[demozic]

I confirm it works great with UAD (even if I don't have a lot of UAD plugs as I own only a project pak + cambridge EQ + LA2A). Much more stable than 1.06 in PT7.

In bonus, the spacebar bug is gone 8)

Work great with other VST too (and now VSTi with multi out support)

Demo

 

[demozic]

I've been having a lot of trouble since updating to PTLE 7.0, a Digi 002R, and a second UAD-1 with the Flexi-Pak providing the MultiBand and Roland pair... I'm not sure which of these new elements are giving me the problem or if it's a combination and I haven't had the time to really sort through it all.

Hi, I had the same problem (change G4->G5, Digi001->M-Audio Audiophile FW, Panther->Tiger, add iLok, only have 2 internal HDs insead of 3, etc) and was about to get back to 6.x but...

May it will help you :

1) VST-to-RTAS bring a great improvement to plug-ins and PT7 compatibility. I've just made a test with Kompakt 1.03 (which is not the last version but is weird even with PT6) :
- with low buffer (128 or 256) and 1 OR 2 processor : CPU is very instable and is quickly maxed out with a single Electric Piano track
- the same with 512 buffer and more is better but

- Now with VST2RTAS v2 version of the same Kompakt 1.03, I have the same CPU usage with 128, 256 1 processor than with 512 / 1 processor and the RTAS version.

- Multi out isn't available on this RTAS version. Although it is working with wrapped v2 version (the VST version must multi out compatible at least).

2) I recently \"kill\" Spotlight (using Spotless) and Dashboard (with Thinkertools or other). Then PT is much more stable and I have less -9218 errors or others.

3) I also reduced the Police smoothing option in the Preferences/Appearance (don't know the exact term in English) so that the window refresh gets faster into Tiger.

4) I also remove non-optimized plug-ins also (and so keep my UA ones as I have the new wrapper) to prevent from unwanted stop and DAE errors in playback/record. When a vst version exists, I just wrap it .

It is not perfect but much fluent than before.

I don't know if UA will provide this new version (like with 1.07) specially for UAD user for free or not...

 

[ladewd]

V2.0 is great. I have 3 UAD cards in my old 1.25Ghz G4 and I can run the cards to the max with very low CPU usage. This is what I though I was going to get when I first bought my UAD's and Mac. I'm a happy camper now! Too bad it took 2 years, but at least I'm getting my money's worth now.

CA

 

[Archmart]

Hey Hey!

Help?

Upgraded to the VST-RTAS v.2.0 last night...

I opened my old Configure Program and unwrapped all my plugs.

Then I opened the new one and detected and wrapped all my plugs.

Next I opened a mastering session I've been working on in ProTools LE7. (with all plugs bypassed) I got one of those errors that I was out of processing power and some or all of the UAD-1 plugs had been disabled.

(I noticed at this point, by the way, that my Memory usage in the UAD-1 meter was at 2%, which I hadn't noticed before.)

I tried to unbypass a plug, but it wouldn't. Of course it would unbypass, but there was no change in the UAD-1 Meter (Processor usage stayed at 0%) and the plugs wouldn't work, as if they were bypassed.

I tried this on various different plugs, same thing.

I closed ProTools LE, opened it again and created a new session. I imported a stereo track and then added a few UAD-1 plugs without problems. (well, actually there was some problems if I added them too quickly, especially the Multiband)

So... why would it be that plugs in a previously created session aren't working but they do work in a new session?

Has anyone else run across this problem?

It also didn't look like things were any more stable... but I'll have to do some more testing to really tell.

Any help is strongly appreciated.

Thanks,
Archmart

 

[demozic]

Next I opened a mastering session I've been working on in ProTools LE7. (with all plugs bypassed) I got one of those errors that I was out of processing power and some or all of the UAD-1 plugs had been disabled.

Did you put a CPU usage limit on your UA cards ?

I tried to unbypass a plug, but it wouldn't. Of course it would unbypass, but there was no change in the UAD-1 Meter (Processor usage stayed at 0%) and the plugs wouldn't work, as if they were bypassed.

1) If the UA plug-ins are not working they should be disabled by PT when opening the session and PT should report which (and how many) plugs aren't recognized.
I'm not sure by 100% but if it occurs. Simply reinstanciate your plugs over the previous old V1.x one and you should recover you settings (if there weren't automation linked to it).

Make a \"save as\" of your session before doing anything...

2) Are you plugs bypasses (blued) or disabled (italic) in PT ?

Try to disable all of them (ctrl+command+click on the plug, add alt key to to disable all of them) and then try to enable them one by one to see if it changes something on the UA CPU usage.

3) On the last beta of the v2 wrapper (before the release version) mono->stereo plugs didn't worked. I don't remember if I checked this compatibility with the last released version. Try to see if you didn't have stereo plugs on originally mono tracks. In that case, the plug(s) should also be disabled when opening the session.

I noticed that sometimes adding many RTAS plugs in the same time take more PT CPU (not UA) usage than putting them one by one. Maybe it has a impact with UA cpu usage too...don't know.
And there's still some UA issues (not wrapper) with some plugs (espacially CS1 and delaycomp).

Otherwise try to see on KVR/Fxpansion forum if you can have a better answer...

 

[starski]

V2.0 is great. I have 3 UAD cards in my old 1.25Ghz G4 and I can run the cards to the max with very low CPU usage. This is what I though I was going to get when I first bought my UAD's and Mac. I'm a happy camper now! Too bad it took 2 years, but at least I'm getting my money's worth now.

CA

were you having an issue with using the uad-1 plugs eating your computers cpu as well? i have a similiar setup dual 1ghz g4 and when i put my 2 cards to 75 percent usage with no other plugs on my cpu is almost to 75 percent as well!!! am i doing something wrong?