the products make clear in their interfaces that VST plug‑ins are being used as part of an AAX plug‑in. He added, however, that "We remain open to developers providing access to VST processing in Pro Tools if Nomad Factory's Magma provides very comprehensive hosting and routing features. For the avoidance of doubt, this means that Avid will not allow an AAX adaptor similar to the VST‑to‑RTAS adaptor offered by FXpansion, and we will uphold our decision not to allow the TransVST product briefly marketed by Sugar Bytes.” Avid's Director of Partnering Programs, Ed Gray, explained: "We do not plan on supporting utilities that convert VST plug‑ins into AAX plug‑ins or load VST plug‑ins directly into the AAX plug‑in menu. Sugar Bytes released an AAX‑to‑VST wrapper called TransVST, but Avid forced them to withdraw it. Trans‑gressionsīefore we start looking at plug‑ins that are available, let's briefly consider one which isn't. But if your favourite plug‑in hasn't yet made it to this format, don't despair as long as there is a VST version available, there are a number of VST hosting plug‑ins that can be used within Pro Tools - many of which do more besides.
The change to Pro Tools 11 has also seen quite a few older plug‑ins drop by the wayside, as they have not been recoded for the new AAX 64‑bit format. It looks like the whole setup is disabling my MIDI input and output selections.We look at ways to open up your Pro Tools plug‑in world through VST hosting.Īlthough there has always been a wide range of real‑time, native plug‑ins available in the RTAS and AAX formats used by Pro Tools, there are also many excellent plug‑ins which are available only in the open VST format.
Does anybody know how to do what I want to do? But I cant even find how to access the sounds.
I bought the Proteus X package so I could use some Proteus sounds in my Pro Tools sessions. Am I supposed to find a synth in that list? Or maybe something called Proteus X? Where can I find the sounds? How do I access them, now that they are loaded and converted (by the VST to RTAS wrapper)? There are instructions for loading a single preset file or a bank of presets into the plug-in.īut WHAT plug-in? There are no instruments listed in the RTAS menus, only effects, like D-verb. I scoured the Users Guide, and it does not explain inactive or deleted MIDI output assignments.īut even if I get that mystery solved (the disappearing MIDI in and out assignment choices), that still leaves me with my original puzzle, and that is this. Now my saved MIDI tracks output assignments are italicized and the previous selections are not available (Digi 002 OUTPUTS one and two are not in the drop down menu, and as a matter of fact, the Digi 002 INPUT selection is now missing from the choices, too). It is dongled to my new sound card (E-MU 0404) and must be loaded to authenticate the card. The sounds I want to access came with my new Proteus X software. I bought a VST to RTAS wrapper (or adapter) so I could play VST instruments as RTAS plug-ins in my Pro Tools LE 6.9 sessions (the wrapper for version 7.0 isnt available yet).