Freeware AU/VST runner with modern MacOS (Sonoma etc)

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  1. sisyphus

    sisyphus Audiosexual

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    Perhaps this is a stupid question, but I'm on a new machine and learning a new MacOS in Sonoma and coming from a long ways back on this... :

    There used to be a freeware AU runner etc in which you could install legit plugins etc without your DAW being behind a firewall/little snitch/Lulu/ online etc...

    I don't know if that still exists with Mac silicon chips...

    I know Audacity can work fine for "audio" plugins, but not for instruments...

    Anyone have any suggestions? Or am I thinking about this ass backwards (very possible, I'm sick and kinda stupid right now)...

    Thank you.
     
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  3. Zoketula

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    Unfortunalty never heard of that one, but I am interested in something like savihost on Windows. The Blue Cat plugins are good hosts for standalone plugins and can route them together, but they are not freeware.
     
  4. sisyphus

    sisyphus Audiosexual

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    Yeah, I think something like AU Host on MacOS will work hopefully... Blue Cat has had it's uses in the past for me, but I haven't used it in years... but yeah, just looking for a MacOS AU/VST host to login and update legit products while having a locked down system as well... and my previous to new Apple Silicon solutions are no longer available to me in that regard... so it goes! :)

    (and I also realize you are talking about Windows and we are on other sides of the spectrum on that in needs, ((AND I am not talking about OS wars as I don't care, I just started with Mac's back in the early 90's and with Digidesign and whatnot and it not being a Windows thing at the time, just hitched my horse and haven't gotten off of it, I certainly am not an Apple fanboi, I'm just locked in at this point without a lot of fuss and muss if you get what I mean...)

    But thanks for chiming in...appreciated...
     
  5. ItsFine

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  6. Zoketula

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    i got the audio software on Mac. I don't care about OS wars either and fanbois don't seem to be around here fortunately. I meant a program like savihost that can change the component into a executable, but on macOS would be neat. Well, maybe someone here knows that program you were asking about.
     
  7. sisyphus

    sisyphus Audiosexual

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    Yeah, I know you aren't looking for one for MacOS, but for anyone else stumbling on this thread and wondering a decent way to run keygens from R2R etc that are .exe's, the freeware "Whisky" works really well...
     
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    sisyphus Audiosexual

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    That's a great link, thank you. And it seems like AudioGridder seems like a winner (downloading now), as it supports Apple Silicon and is light...

    cheers!
     
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