Asking the hive-mind: Audacity on a Mac

[mdlbear]

Anyone out there know how to get Audacity's VST bridge working on a Mac? catsittingstill's inquiring mind needs to know. Alternatively, is there a Mac-native reverb plug-in that Audacity can use?

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[acelightning.livejournal.com]

You might find what you need among these links:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/beta_mac
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/plugins

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I appreciate the thought, but I have, as far as I can tell, done what it says to do for Audacity 1.2.5:

downloaded vst-bridge.so, put it in the plug-ins folder,
moved the plug-ins folder and the Audacity app into the same folder, downloaded both the Freeverb and the DX Reverb Light.vst VST plug-ins (two of them in case the DX Reverb Light.vst plug in was what was not functioning right, because Freeverb is listed as a known-good Mac-compatible alternative on the VST Plug-Ins page of the Audacity wiki),
put them in the plug-ins folder
restarted Audacity (multiple times)
and looked for the new effects in Audacity's Effects menu (below the divider. Also above the divider. Also in the Generate and Analyze menus.)

I also tried putting the VST plug-ins in the Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST folder (listed in the readme as another place Audacity will look for them.)

So now I'm not sure what else is worth trying.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Although I love Audacity - I've used ProTools, and I find Audacity damn near as good - I'm not a Mac person, so I'm not sure what else to suggest. Um, maybe installing the latest (beta) version of Audacity? It seems pretty stable for a beta...

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Yes, I may have to do that. But the Audacity page says for an Intel Mac (which is what I'm working with) I should use Audacity 1.2.x (I'm working with 1.2.5) and that 1.3.x is recommended for PowerPCs (different--older, actually--type of Mac.)

But I may try it anyway out of desperation, because it's not supposed to need the VST bridge in order to run VST plug-ins.

[mdlbear]

Hmm. 1.3.x is supposed to work for Intel macs, too, is recommended for MacOS 10.6, and is considerably newer (being the experimental release). Audacity's stable releases tend to be pretty old.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

So far, the Windoze 1.3.x beta is as stable as the earlier versions - and I'm running Windows 2000 Pro, because this old machine can't even take XP! (That's one of the many things I love about Audacity. It just blows my mind that something nearly as powerful as ProTools will run without problems on a Pentium II machine.)

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Well, it's good to hear that it will work for Intel Macs. Maybe that other page that recommended 1.2.x for Intel Macs is just out of date.

I'll try to make some time today to do that.

Thanks for your help.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting about this.

[mdlbear]

:) You're welcome!