Logic Studio (Logic 8) and Synthogy Ivory 1.5

I'm a longtime user of Tiger on an older mac. I purchased a macbook pro recently which shipped with Leopard. I bought an older copy of Ivory awhile back (ver 1.5 apparently) and just spent 2 hours loading it on my laptop. (Yes...I loaded the AU version). I opened Logic and Ivory does not appear under the Software Instruments in the track setting.

I assume the new Logic is compatible with Ivory and I'm trying to figure out where 3rd party software instruments are stored. I'm curious if I need to move a file into a particular folder or something in order for Logic to find it. This is my first dealing with a 3rd party software instrument, but when I was dealing with samples here recently, in Tiger there was the "Logic" folder where all the factory stuff was stored, but then there was the "user" counterpart folder to this where 3rd party things were stored. (took awhile to figure this out...). I'm not used to Leopard yet, but I couldn't find this in leopard's finder window and I assume the same logic applies to software instrument outside Apple's factory stuff. I couldn't find any reference in any of the Logic literature either that tells you where things get stored so I thought I'd ask here to see if anybody can clue me into figuring out why Logic isn't seeing it.

Sorry bout the long winded explanation, but does this make sense to anybody??

thanks in advance...

MacBook Pro 2.6, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jul 4, 2008 12:56 AM

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Jul 5, 2008 1:49 PM in response to bnote

AU plugins are stored in MacintoshHD->Library->Audio->Plugins->Components

I'm not sure why you would want to instal the plugin in this manual way though. Using the original instal disks is a heck of a lot easier.

You will also have to deal with registration and enter Ivory's serial number etc.
- Just dragging the Ivory's files from another computer will not make things work.

Check to see if Ivory is working via its stand-alone application before deciding that there's a problem with Logic.

If everything is installed correctly then forcing Logic to do a plugin scan should bring things back to life but then Logic usually spots new software plugs on launch. Indeed I've found Ivory and Logic work perfectly together.

The location for Ivory's samples is not specific. You should store them on the fastest storage available for best performance - such as large FW800 drive. If Ivory doesn't know where its samples are it will ask you to find them for it.

hope that helps a bit 🙂

Jul 5, 2008 2:36 PM in response to bnote

you'll need to secure v1.70 or later of Synthogy to run on Leopard... also, the oldest versions of the Ivory installer won't work correctly...

you'll need an iLok device as the challenge/response system of authorization was dropped by Synthogy as of Leopard...

so... you've got some work to do in order to get Ivory working under Leopard (acquire an iLok if you don't have one yet and download the right bits from the Synthogy site).

After you've done all of that, it works quite nicely.

hope this answers your question.

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