overview (www.vst-mac.info)

[IIO]

hi guys

i should have a "complete" overview of OS9 plug-ins at http://www.vst-mac.info/

and if you think something is missing, i will be grateful for every hint.

the links to the vendors in the OS9 list are a bit outdated (like the whole site), but there is google anyway.

[MacTron]

Huge list and Huge work!

[arjen_1]

Great overview! I didn't know there was was an OS9 version of REFX Nexus. If so....requested asap! 

[MacTron]

Well, 1.4x version and up are for Mac Os X 10.4 and up...

May be that 1.0.9 version is for Mac Os 9. I will know in a few days...

[arjen_1]

Hi,

I am curious. I only can find info on REFX Vanguard for Mac OS9. E.g. http://www.emusician.com/gear/0769/refx-vanguard-104-mac/win/146141 Also a very desirable VSTi for EDM productions. Haven't found a copy yet. 

Greetz,
Arjen
 

[MacTron]

...I wish to be wrong -I like RFX sound a lot- but Vanguard never were made for Mac Os 9...

[arjen_1]

I've never heard of it too. Wish it would be true...But I am confident you are right. 

However (pardon me for being stubborn) if you do a google search for "ReFX Vanguard MacOS9" you'll find a lot of articles wich state that it was released for Mac OS9. Like this one... http://www.macmusic.org/news/view.php/lang/en/id/1659/
And it's, like Nexus, on the list too. 

[MacTron]

I've never heard of it too. Wish it would be true...But I am confident you are right. 

However (pardon me for being stubborn) if you do a google search for "ReFX Vanguard MacOS9" you'll find a lot of articles wich state that it was released for Mac OS9. Like this one... http://www.macmusic.org/news/view.php/lang/en/id/1659/
And it's, like Nexus, on the list too. 

Despite this web pages, a few years ago, I made a deep "investigation" about this software ...and that was my conclusion...
...but may be I'm wrong.  I wish...

In any way, I don't have it and don't know where I can find it
So any track that take us to RFX Vanguard will be apreciated

[arjen_1]

OK. I'll give it a try but you're probably right.
If you know more about Nexus...let me know!

Greetz,
Arjen

[MacTron]

If you know more about Nexus...let me know!

Confirmed: There aren't a Mac Os 9 version.
... and this text was extracted from 1.0.9 version manual:

Minimal Mac system requirements
§ Mac G4 800MHz or better / Mac Intel 1.4 GHz or better
§ Minimum of 512Mb RAM
§ Hard drive space required: 3Gb
§ Operating system: Mac OSX Version 10.4.8 or later
§ Graphics (minimum resolution): 16-bit 800x600
§ Host: Any application with either VSTi support (e.g. Cubase SX) or AU (AudioUnit) support (e.g. Logic)

[arjen_1]

This myth is busted! It was too good to be true.

[IIO]

Well, 1.4x version and up are for Mac Os X 10.4 and up...

May be that 1.0.9 version is for Mac Os 9. I will know in a few days...

hihi. grey color means "announced". so if it turned out wrong, i am completely innocent about it.

as you can see there was no update to the site since 2006. maybe i should get those grey entries sorted some day to reach a final stage.

[IIO]

i´ve just looked through it. ALL grey entries were never released.
the only ones which exist are the NI kontakt players - but they are unofficial versions, i.e. they should also not be there.

you can see the OSX panic among developers in that funny graph under "counting", which compares the new releases between the platforms over summer 2003, where suddenyl everyone stopped building for OS9 because they were keen of using XCode stuff.

[IIO]

i think the jeremy sagan stuff is also wrong. at least i dont have them installed (but maybe thats because i dont own a full version of the host program they are coming with.)

i think i will release the one or other new pluggo in the future, then the OS) list will grow again.

[arjen_1]

Still...a great list! Thanks for your work....and keep it growing! 
Greetz,
Arjen

[IIO]

it would be funny to find something new of course, but i think if there ever will be new entries to the OS9 list, then they will be from me. i still have tons to go which are not yet built or have never been released anywhere (which would be a condition for they end up in the "list" website.)

re:sagan: the metro plugs exist, i just dont have them installed because they only work in metro and make cubase crash on startup.

[supernova777]

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep09/articles/vstdiy.htm

just found this article
obviously its about osx but.. may be of interest;)

[supernova777]

btw -- 110.. glad to have u here;)
i obviously saw your site a long time ago as its been online for a very long time;)

[supernova777]

honestly tho if u want to do something REALLY usefull.. recreate the Re:Fuse software functionality so we can use vsti's + reason + ableton live with pro tools 5 under os9 without payin 30$ for a single user license, pretty sure this whole idea began as a hack based on the 'ugly vsti' itself, being programmed in max msp

[Protools5LEGuy]

honestly tho if u want to do something REALLY usefull.. recreate the Re:Fuse software functionality so we can use vsti's + reason + ableton live with pro tools 5 under os9 without payin 30$ for a single user license, pretty sure this whole idea began as a hack based on the 'ugly vsti' itself, being programmed in max msp

Oh yeah. An optimized 2014 MacOS9 vst(i) host could be really cool.