can any were mac a tutorial video please ??ß

 

Hi. I'm the OP. I enabled D3DMetal in the Advanced Settings in Crossover to get it working. If you don't enable D3DMetal, you get the behavior that you're experiencing.

 

Thank you for the response.
I do not have the D3DMetal option, probably because my 2019 MacBook is Intel.

Thanks

 

Ha , Thanks , Maybe ambassador ! Quick tip though, reason I don't have it now is because my bottle broke randomly ,so now might be a good time to right click on your bottle and do an export to archive backup.
Also to the original op, the graphics settings you suggest might only work on certain chipsets im on intel and it doesn't work. or it might be to do with graphics card manufacturer not sure.Peace.

 

Thank-you for this information am going to try and set this up on my m1 too!

 

That's correct, Intel Macs don't support this newer feature. But if other users are on Apple Silicon and you don't see the D3DMetal option, you need to upgrade to Sonoma (or higher whenever that happens).

 

What is D3DMetal in CrossOver?
D3DMetal - D3DMetal is a graphics API translation layer from the game porting toolkit supporting DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 games.

Why would this matter? You are installing a newer MacOS so that it needs it to be backwards compatible? Maybe it is caused by the versions of Crossover you are using.

 

Msync is more important to sync apps tighter. On other systems it's called fsync or esync, I believe. It can greatly improve performance or it won't run at all. As always with those things, your mileage my vary as they say. This crossgridder stuff is really clunky and hackish compared to a plugin bridge like Yabridge.

 

To the last couple of responders; if you don't enable D3DMetal, you can't select any options in the Falcon interface, even though it loads properly in Crossover. Don't take it up with me, take it up with the Crossover team. I'm just here to tell you what you need to do to run Falcon this way.

 

can you explain more precisely where exactly to copy banks in uv workstation? I see only sound banks In Falcon under ~ProgramData/UVI/

 

I have a folder in"program files" called UVISoundBanks . if u don't have one, make one and copy them all into there see if that works.If not let us know n ill have another look.was a while ago so can't quite remember but mine works.

 

Thanks bdone, got it, it's work! The Falcon 2 and 3 working fine on latest CrossOver under Sequoia (Intel) without DAW.

Now the problem is that on the latest version of Sequoia 15.5 (Intel) and Logic Pro 11.2 the Falcon's 2/3 doesn't work using CrossOver, CrossGridder 1.5, AudioGridderServer, as CrossGridder doesn't see Falcon VST files, but AudioGridderServer itself shows that Falcon VST's are available.
Any chance of getting Falcon 2 or 3 to work on Sequoia (Intel) and Logic Pro?

 

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cool ,nice one. I have similar ill try it now see if it works

 

just tried it and it works fine with sequoia 15.5 intel and latest logic, crossgridder 1.5 . I tried the vst3 ,I just looked and realise I have it twice, my mistake but works anyway. once in common files vst3 folder inside a UVI folder. and once in Program Files/Steinberg/VstPlugins/UVI
If you can't see it maybe it's in the last location? if not sure and you don't have that last folder(in Steinberg folder), make it and try putting it in there as well maybe? after that go to crossgridder icon and restart .If that works good. If it works and after u can't move no dials or sliders ill have to let u know how to fix that.

 

I've checked all the settings many times, but I can't get it to work.
I use CrossOver Version 25.20250519.38579 (What version of the crossover are you using?)

I have installed only Falcon 2.8.6 and Soothe2
First I start AudioGridderServer in CrossOver and then open AGridder in (AudioFX) in Logic Pro.

Unfortunately I don't see any Falcon VST's in AGridder, I only see the VST and VST 3 from “soothe2” and it loads and works fine, but not Falcon because there are no VST's

The AudioGridderServer/ Settings /Plugin: shows that all plugin’s are available:

Falcon VST3 Instrument… UVI 2.8.6
FalconVSTx64 VST Synth UVI Falcon - 2.8.6.0

soothe2 VST3 Fx|Dynamics.. oeksound 1.1.2
soothe2 _x64 VST Effect oeksound 500the2 - 1.1..

any idea?

 

Most people talking about this in this thread are using Crossgridder, not Crossover with Audiogridder. It is a pre-modified bottle.

But since you say your Audiogridder is using Soothe2 successfully anyway, you mention loading Agridder plugin in Logic as an AudioFX. You need to load it into a software instrument channel as an instrument. Not as an effect plugin inside a channel strip. When you load Audiogridder as an instrument plugin, you will see Agridder (Inst) as the only available menu item.

 

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If I understand correctly I need to use Crossgridder without the Crossover? I must be missing something..
I downloaded CrossGridder_1.5.cxarchive a while ago and was sure it should be imported and used exactly in Crossover, but how to use only Crossgridder in Logic without the Crossover just have no idea.

Well anyway I see that AGridder (inst) on Logic in the “Plugin Manager” has been successfully validated:

AGridder effect e47 1.2.0 successfully validated
AGridder (inst) instrument e47 1.2.0 successfully validated
AGridder (midi) MIDI proces... e47 1.2.0 successfully validated

but unfortunately I don't see AGridder (inst) in the instruments by Logic, it just doesn't exist there

 

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If you installed Crossgridder 1.5 into Crossover then that is correct. Your post said Audiogridder, so you would be putting plugins into a regular old Windows 10 bottle.

if you see this in Crossover, you are good already:

 

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HI , I think you're opening the wrong one. I can't see now but I think its the instrument version you need to open not the effects one.check you're doing that and let me know. sorry misread ,ok .you might need to validate it in logic plugin manager again, maybe untick it and tick it again. restart logic see if that works.

 

As I mentioned above, Logic validate all 3 plugin:

Logic Pro Plug-in Manager:
AGridder effect e47 1.2.0 successfully validated
AGridder (inst) instrument e47 1.2.0 successfully validated
AGridder (midi) MIDI proces... e47 1.2.0 successfully validated

I have tried many times untick it and tick it again, restart logic, reinstall Logic etc... but without any luck
AGridder (inst) doesn't show up in the Instruments, I can see and load AGridder (vst's) only in the 'Audio FX'

are you really use latest Logic Version 11.2.2 ?

any idea?

 

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