Spitfish Audio Units plugin no workie [SOLVED]

[GriffithLea]

I am having no luck getting Spitfish 1.1 (Audio Units version) to work with Audacity 2 on my OSX 10.6.8 system.

I have installed the Fishfillets.component file in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components (alongside a file named A52Codec.component, so I feel relative sure I'm in the right place).

When I start Audacity, I expect to see something new in the Effects menu, but I don't. I have made sure that Audio Units plugins are enabled in the Audacity Preferences. Do I need to do anything else?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

[steve]

I don't use Macs but the instructions here: http://audacityteam.org/download/plugins say:
"To install new plug-ins, place them in the Plug-Ins folder inside the Audacity installation folder. On Windows computers, this is usually under "Program Files". On Mac OS X, it is usually under "Applications". Restart Audacity, then the Plug-ins will appear underneath the divider in the "Effect", "Generate" or "Analyze" menus."

[GriffithLea]

Thanks for replying.

I was going by the instructions that came with the Spitfish download, and also http://audacityteam.org/download/features-1.3-f.php .

No harm trying your suggestion, of course - however, it did not work. I also tried putting the file directly in /Library and ~/Library... still no dice.

[billw58]

Audacity will not load Audio Units plugins from the Audacity plug-ins folder - they must be in the system locations. /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components is the right place.

What does Spitfish say about the component you are trying to use? Is it PPC only? Universal binary? Intel only? I see that the latest change was in 2005, which implies that these might be PPC only.

[later] I downloaded the FishFillets package and it is indeed PPC only.

-- Bill

[Gale Andrews]

Bill just beat me to it, but the FishFillets plug-ins are very old and the VST versions of them are also for PPC Macs only. So they won't work on OS X 10.6 (which is an Intel system). The way to check (I think) is by right-clicking > Get Info over the Fish Fillets.component file.

I think your only chance is to install Rosetta then find an audio host (VST or AU) that is a native PPC application rather than a Universal Binary like Audacity. You could try running Audacity under Rosetta, but I don't think it will work.

If you update to OS X 10.7 then there is no support for PPC programs whatsoever.



Gale

[billw58]

The way to check (I think) is by right-clicking > Get Info over the Fish Fillets.component file.

That's correct.

-- Bill

[GriffithLea]

Wow, it's been so long since I came across a PPC-only file that it never occurred to me to check that.

Thanks for the insight, everyone. I guess I need to find some other way to de-ess files. Spitfish was supposed to be the hot tip for that.

[GriffithLea]

I remembered I have one of the original Mac Mini's (PPC) so I dusted it off and loaded Audacity 2 (which is a UB) on it and also Fishfillets - I now see the Fishfillet plugins in the Effects menu.

[GriffithLea]

OK, this is just to satisfy my curiosity:

I thought I'd try running Audacity 2 on my Intel Mac using Rosetta, just to see if the Fishfillets plugins would work, but I have no "Open With Rosetta" checkbox when I Get Info. I know it must be a Universal Binary, because the same download (I think it's the same) runs on the old PPC Mac Mini.

Why is there no Rosetta checkbox?

[steve]

but I have no "Open With Rosetta" checkbox when I Get Info.

What are you talking about here - Audacity 2.0 or Spitfish?