Enabling AU Nodes for Plug-Ins

Hi, I am having problems getting my AU Plug-in components working in Logic Pro 9. I have done pretty much everything imaginable up to this point but the components won't show up in the Audio Units list for Inserts. The plug-in's I have are ReFX Nexus 2 and Tone2 Gladiator (all latest versions) and I am running Logic on OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3. The problem has boiled down to the inability to check/select the 'Nodes' inside the Audio Units Manager; the check boxes under 'Logic' can be selected and the plug-ins appear to have passed the test. Only AU's with selectable nodes show up in the Inserts panel. I tested this by downloading a plug-in called TAL-DUB II that was shown as an example in a video for installing plug-ins and after placing it's component in the components folder it showed up right away. Every AU in the Audio Units Manager that has an active node shows up and is functional except the ones whose nodes cannot be clicked/selected including three that came with Logic: 'AUAdioFilePlayer', AUNetReceive', and DLSMusicDevice'. In the AU manager, under 'Type' all the ones listed as 'effects' have selectable nodes but 'generators' and 'instruments' do not. I'm sure it's something very simple but if someone can explain what that something is it would be much appreciated. Thanks.

G5, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Oct 25, 2010 7:18 PM

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Oct 26, 2010 6:10 AM in response to jerjae11

jerjae11 wrote:
Hi, I am having problems getting my AU Plug-in components working in Logic Pro 9. I have done pretty much everything imaginable up to this point but the components won't show up in the Audio Units list for Inserts. The plug-in's I have are ReFX Nexus 2 and Tone2 Gladiator (all latest versions) and I am running Logic on OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3. The problem has boiled down to the inability to check/select the 'Nodes' inside the Audio Units Manager; the check boxes under 'Logic' can be selected and the plug-ins appear to have passed the test. Only AU's with selectable nodes show up in the Inserts panel. I tested this by downloading a plug-in called TAL-DUB II that was shown as an example in a video for installing plug-ins and after placing it's component in the components folder it showed up right away. Every AU in the Audio Units Manager that has an active node shows up and is functional except the ones whose nodes cannot be clicked/selected including three that came with Logic: 'AUAdioFilePlayer', AUNetReceive', and DLSMusicDevice'. In the AU manager, under 'Type' all the ones listed as 'effects' have selectable nodes but 'generators' and 'instruments' do not. I'm sure it's something very simple but if someone can explain what that something is it would be much appreciated. Thanks.


Nodes have nothing to do with it - or are you using any plugins from a second Mac?
Most 3rd party Instrument plugins do not have noding capabilities, but that has no bearing on whether they can be used on a single machine.

If you have a second Mac, you can install plugins on that and use those in a project running on the first Mac, this is known as *Distributed Audio Processing.*
http://documentation.apple.com/en/logicpro/usermanual/index.html#chapter=2%26sec tion=6%26tasks=true

Oct 26, 2010 6:55 AM in response to jerjae11

The plug-in's I have are ReFX Nexus 2 and Tone2 Gladiator (all latest versions)


Ok.

The problem has boiled down to the inability to check/select the 'Nodes' inside the Audio Units Manager;


This has nothing to do with whether plugins show up on your machine.

Only AU's with selectable nodes show up in the Inserts panel.


If you are looking for instrument plugins in the insert menu, then you're doing it wrong. The inserts only list FX plugins, not instruments.

Instrument plugins are added using the input menu on software instrument tracks. Do your instruments show up here?

Do your instruments show up in other hosts, such as Garageband, AU Lab, Mainstage, Live etc..?

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