I had Nebula 4.2 (shared) installed since before R2R released Acqua's, so that was already on my system. When I installed the framework for R2R's Acqua I did not do the 'easy' method, do the other method. This is how I've installed it and both are working together. I'm not sure if it's Neb 4.2 specifically or the order of Nebula first then R2R Acqua that allows it. I do theorize that doing the easy method overrides the Nebula framework so be weary of that. I fiddled with more Nebula installs today for around an hour now and I'm not sure I'm going to bother going up to 4.5 bc I'm not even sure what the benefit is for the libraries I'm using.

 

I'll have to look that "other" method up. To be honest I ended up installing the R2R aqua framework stuff from a guide provided in a thread on here somewhere. In the interim just for giggles, are your R2R aqua Framework files installed at c:\program files\acustica\framework\ or another dir?

 

you guys should share with the world the updated files as the ones provided by the witches are from the trial versions, I could help if someone figure which files to share...

 

After a lot of debating on which nebula version to install I finally decided on 4.5. The R2R acqua framework was already installed and working for months. In reading over the install "instructions" for Nebula 4.5 there didn't seem to be anything intrusive to the acqua framework being called out so went ahead with the install for Nebula 4.5.

After the nebula 4.5 install, the base Nebula VST, VST3, and AAX plugins were working in all my DAW's (Reaper, Cubase, Nuendo, and ProTools). At this point I decided to install a couple of the Nebula devices (namely the TP Vari-level STA and the Lexicon 480L). Ran a few tracks as a test and had the R2R Acqua Ocean processor and the Nebula Lexicon 480L running together with no issues at all. Seems Nebula 4.5 and R2R Acqua stuff will coexist just fine. From what I have seen you shouldn't have any issues with upgrading your setup to 4.5 if you wanted...

 

Last edited: May 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM

right on, so nebula 4.5 and r2r acqua are working together on your system now?

 

Yep. Both R2R Acqua and Nebula 4.5 working fine and able to be used together - I had the R2R Acqua Ocean processor and the Nebula Lexicon 480L running together on a stereo test track.

One thing I haven't tried yet is installing a V3 Nebula library and running it with v4.5... You don't happen to know if Nebula v4.5 is capable of running V3 lib's?

 

Last edited: May 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM

Very cool, thanks for reporting back. Yes 4.5 should have no problem loading V3's.