Pluggo General Questions
What Sorts of Plug-ins Come with Pluggo?
Since there are over a hundred plug-ins, that's a hard question to answer. You might start by looking at the [[http://www.cycling74.com/products/pluggo][pluggo product page]. There is a screen shot and information for each plug-in we are including.
Fine, but how would you characterize the pluggo plug-ins in comparison to competing products? Why should I buy pluggo instead of the Waves bundle?
The pluggo collection includes over 80 different kinds of audio effects plug-ins and over 20 different virtual synthesizers for your enjoyment in one package.
The pluggo effects plug-ins are best thought of as sound design effects, rather than sweetening effects. If you paint with oils, pluggo offers you cans of spray paint, some industrial grade paint thinner, and some glitter crayons. That isn't to say there aren't some oils and even pastels mixed in there.
For the discerning virtual synthesizer fan, We've provided a little something for every palate-an assortment of "essential instruments" that includes additive synths, analog-modeling synths, theremins, drum and percussion synths, FM and wavetable synths, sampling, granular, and waveshaping synths.
We think that pluggo offers you a breadth and selection of audio plug-ins and virtual synthesizers that is unlike anything else.
What happened to the free plug-ins?
Most of the free plug-ins are now included with pluggo 3. We post the plug-ins developed by people who want to give them away
here.
I have a dual-processor machine. Can I use pluggo with applications that support dual-processor machines?
If you're using an older OS 9 version of pluggo, no. Pluggo for OS X will work with a dual-processor machine if multiprocessing is enabled in the application.
Will Pluggo work with my sequencer?
While we'd like to provide a comprehensive list, it's a bit complicated. Since Pluggo works with an ever-increasing number of applications, we test them as best we can. However, before purchasing Pluggo (or any of our plug-in products), please download and install the demos. If you experience any trouble running them and they meet the system requirements, please e-mail
tech support with details about your host app and your system.
Do you support pluggo 3 on Pro Tools HD systems?
Yes, we support Pluggo 3 on
ProTools HD systems and we know of no problems specific to these systems.
Is there a TDM version of pluggo?
No. However, we have one TDM product called
Octirama.
I've heard that Pluggo for OS X no longer allows me to host other VST plug-ins. Is this true?
It's true -- Pluggo for OS X no longer supports hosting of VST plug-ins. We found that it was a full time job keeping up with supporting all the different possible varieties of VST plug-ins that could be used, and that we'd always viewed VST hosting as more of a bonus feature for pluggo from the very start. If you're interested in hosting VST plug-ins, we would recommend dedicated VST wrapper software products such as the
VST Wrapper.
Tell me more about Pluggo's ability to sync its effects with your audio sequences.
Pluggo has two synchronization modes. First, there's a direct sync with the host applications. Applications that support host sync are Digital Performer 2.7 and above, Cubase 4.1 and above, and Logic 4.8.1 and above. For applications that don't support host synchronization, you can use
PluggoSync. To use
PluggoSync, you make a click track and feed it as an audio input to the
PluggoSync plug-in, which listens and derives a clock that is synchronized to the clicks. It can also subdivide the clicks so if your click track is in quarter notes, you can make effect changes in 16th notes. Numerous pluggo plug-ins work with both host synchronization and
PluggoSync and can do things like retrigger LFOs or advance step sequences in sync with the music.
Are your plug-ins 16 or 24-bit? If I process an 24-bit audio file through your plugins, will it come out sounding 16-bit?
All Audio Unit, VST, and RTAS plug-ins use 32-bit floating-point samples. The sequencer converts from whatever your source material is into floating-point and hands it to the plug-in. The plug-in processes the audio entirely in floating-point, and gives it back to the sequencer in floating-point.
Pluggo's Degrader plug-in simulates lower bit resolution, if that's what you want.
Pluggo processes effects in real time and in that sense doesn't need to support any file formats; this is handled by the host application.
What kind of documentation comes with pluggo?
The packaged version contains a printed version of the Pluggo Getting Started manual. This manual discusses features common to all pluggo-based plug-ins and contains information about how to use the plug-ins in popular sequencers. In addition, on the CD-ROM there are PDF (Adobe Acrobat) versions of the Getting Started manual and two other manuals: a Plug-in Reference Guide that lists each plug-in alphabetically and describes its function and parameters, and a Plug-in Development Guide that tells you how to write your own plug-ins in Max and MSP. All of these manuals can be downloaded on the pluggo download page without downloading the software itself.
Where is there a list of all the plug-ins arranged by category? How am I expected to remember the difference between Swirl and Swish?
The table of contents in the Plug-in Reference Guide Contains a list of all the plug-ins on a single page grouped by category. You can also find a summary of all the pluggo plug-ins in Appendix A of the Plug-in Reference Guide.
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