Freeverb and Gverb Install Problems

[Charles218]

I'm new to Audacity and trying to add reverb to a couple of files and came across Gverb and Freeverb, neither of which I can get to load and run. I believe that I have followed the install directions exactly for each but neither shows up in the Effects Menu. I put Freeverb and vst-bridge.so in the Plug-Ins Folder inside of the Audacity folder and restarted the program. With Gverb I ran the installer for the "SWH LADSPA" plugins, a search with Spotlight shows that gverb_1216.so is installed at /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LADSPA, but it still does not show up in the Effects Menu. I have restarted Audacity and the computer several times. Any suggestions?

Charles

Mac 10.4.11
Audacity 1.2.6

[Plisko]

I have had this exact same problem following the same instructions. When I put Gverb into the audacity plugins folder it became available in effects list but it crashed Audacity when I tried to use it. The VST bridge doesn't seem to be bridging anything because my library plugins folder is full of VST stuff that Audacity is ignoring.

As was asked above. . . anyone have any ideas what we are missing here?

I'm on a G5 running OS 10.4.11 and using Audacity 1.2.6 according to the get info pane. I downloaded all the stuff from the links provided at the audacity or audacity wiki pages.

[tuckfoot]

I know this is an old issue to many, but I'm unable to get freeverb or any other reverb plug to work with audacity in OS X. I have followed all available instructions without success. If anyone managed to overcome this problem, please post your solution. Many thanks. (btw, on this same Powerbook, freeverb works fine as a plug in soundBlade, a commercial sound editor developed by SonicStudio.)

[kozikowski]

Support for third party plugins can be spotty. There are billions of plugins out there and not everybody follows the format rules when they write one. Couple that with Audacity being an all-volunteer programming force and a lot of software falls through the cracks.

http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=install&i=vst-bugs

And yes, the bridge works fine on the certified plugins in Mac OS-X.

Koz

[tuckfoot]

Support for third party plugins can be spotty. There are billions of plugins out there and not everybody follows the format rules when they write one. Couple that with Audacity being an all-volunteer programming force and a lot of software falls through the cracks.

http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=install&i=vst-bugs

And yes, the bridge works fine on the certified plugins in Mac OS-X.

Koz

I know nothing should surprise me in the wacky world of operating systems, but it seems many people have had success running freeverb with audacity under Mac OS X. Can't help but wonder why it is that some setups work and others don't. Same platforms, same OS, same versions of app and plug. One works; one doesn't. Maybe it's sunspot activity.........

All this being said, can you think of another reverb plug to try instead?

I greatly appreciate your taking the time to reply and assist.

Tuck

[steve]

Try the Steve Harris plug-in pack for OSX from this page: http://plugin.org.uk/
The link is under the news heading "2006-08-30"

I think that it should include G-Verb.

[mlkslt]

I'm having the same problem with FreeVerb as these folks (and another problem intalling LADPSA plugins); I've placed the vst-bridge.so file in my Plugins folder and then put the Freeverb plugin in the same folder, and.... nothing. Restarts of both Audacity and my Mac (MacBook Pro running 10.5.6) have changed nothing.

Any help for 2009?

Also, in response to the above message, the issue I'm having involves Steve Harris' LADSPA plugins...
I'm posting my LADSPA issue as a seperate post: I'll put the link the that thread as a reply....

[steve]

Does this address the issue?

You should not run Audacity from within the .dmg image it's distributed in. This may cause permissions problems and won't allow you to add files to Audacity's Plug-Ins folder.

Always install Audacity thus:

1. Inside your Applications folder, create a folder called "Audacity".
2. Double-click the downloaded .dmg to mount it
3. Option-drag the whole of the .dmg contents (not the .dmg itself) into the "Audacity" folder you created
4. Double-click Audacity.app inside the Applications folder to launch it

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mac_Bugs

[cbjorke]

Add me to the list of those unable to get Gverb or Freeverb to work. I'm running Audacity 1.2.5 and OSX 10.5.6 on an iMac 2GHZ Core 2 Duo. No, I'm not running it from the installer file. Is there any hope?

[kozikowski]

<<<3. Option-drag the whole of the .dmg contents (not the .dmg itself) into the "Audacity" folder you created>>>

Why "Option Click?" I've never done it that way. I click-drag the contents of the dmg exploded and mounted install drive to the "audacity" folder.

I get stable installations all the way up through 1.3.8-experimental on two different machines.


<<<Is there any hope?>>>

You need to make your own hope. Some might say the "Audacity of Hope."

Y'all are the only people doing development work on Audacity 1.2. The Big Kids are working on 1.3.7, 1.3.8 and 1.4.0.

The idea is to compare notes with each other and see what the common thread is. Do you all run iChat? How about Vonage or Skype? Both of those packages add significant software management and can mess up a machine good.

If you do any of these installs on a "clean" machine they work just fine, so you have a "dirty" or contaminated machine in some way.

Has everybody verified their disk and repaired permissions? That's pre pre step one.

Applications > Utilities > Disk Utilities > (your system drive) > Verify Disk and Repair permissions. This is also the step where you find out your System Drive is too full. No production drive should ever be over 90% full.

Then on to pre step one. Mac Janitor or I will provide a way to do that manually if you don't want any more software than you have to.

Koz