It might be a stretch but I found my old refx vanguard download from 10+ years ago, and I also found 32 Lives. I installed 32 Lives no problem, I resurrected vanguard and tried loading up logic and to froze when opening. I removed the original and resurrected vanguard from the components folder, fired up logic and decided to see if I could validate it thru the plugin manager.... well I got this and have no idea what it means. Is it possible to run resurrected 32bit plugins on a mac?

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VALIDATING AUDIO UNIT: 'aumu' - 'VGRD' - 'reFX'
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Manufacturer String: reFX
AudioUnit Name: Vanguard
Component Version: 1.8.0 (0x10800)

* * PASS
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TESTING OPEN TIMES:
COLD:
2022-01-21 18:53:29.095 auvaltool[1289:18201] 32 lives failed to lookup agent port with error 268435460
2022-01-21 18:54:29.614 auvaltool[1289:18201] 32 lives failed to lookup agent port with error 268435460
2022-01-21 18:55:30.185 auvaltool[1289:18201] 32 lives failed to lookup agent port with error 268435460
2022-01-21 18:56:30.692 auvaltool[1289:18201] 32 lives failed to lookup agent port with error 268435460


validation result: crashed validation

any help or guidance would be appreciated!!! Thanks

 

Not only is that plugin 32bit, but it's also for Intel Macs, not m1. So it's not as simple as even just running a VM and then using Audiogridder.
Even if you could somehow get this working with windows arm32, you probably will not want to use it to make music. You could find a legacy intel Mac very cheaply if you had to. maybe you will get a better answer but I could not find one.

 

Last edited: Jan 22, 2022

yep, as the hardware world was locked in by storing propriotory designs to be backwards compatible, cause no new ones were made
software companies do this artificially
unless we as users step up and say no to closed plugin architextures nothing will change

 

eh, apple went from 68k, ppc, x64 to the new arm platform. show me any other, just one other os, that lived over so many architecture changes! and the cherry on the cake, their rosetta emulations for most of the old software.