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I have some of the XT plugins. They don't show up as plugins in either Reaper or Logic. I understand the Ava plugins on the other hand are usable system-wide.
Is this an intentional difference between XT and AVA plugins? Or is it a pilot error such as not having set up the path for the plugins correctly?
(OSX Catalina, Mixbus6, XT-MC and others)
Thank you in advance.
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The plugin "standard" is different for the two. The XT plugins will not work, as a general rule, in other DAWs. I think there may be a couple very obscure ones out there that use that standard - but your "mainstream" DAWs do not.
It seems to me they repackaged the more useful ones - that is the ones that are not your typical "default/bundled DAW plugins" - to be available for all of the industry-adopted plugin standards.
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Thank you.
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The way I look at it: The XT plugins, which are in the LV2 format, are paid extensions of Mixbus/Mixbus32C while the AVA plugins are for any DAWs and hosts.
Registered XT plugins can also be used in Ardour but not other DAWs/hosts that support the LV2 format.
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"Over twelve hundred plugins are now available in LV2 format.[5] Notable plugins include Calf Studio Gear[6] Software that can host LV2 plugin "bundles" includes Ardour, Ingen, Carla (of the KXStudio distribution), Qtractor, Traverso DAW,[7] Harrison Mixbus,[8] MusE, Audacity,[9] Ecasound, FFmpeg, the GStreamer framework and DJing software Mixxx. It is also the plugin format used by the MOD Duo and MOD Duo X, [10] Zynthian, and Poly Effects Digit/Beebo hardware units."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LV2
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