System Requirements
Macintosh Version Windows Version
- SFX Machine Pro 1.5.x
- Intel-based Macintosh
- OS X 10.6 or higher
- About 20 MB available RAM (in addition to that required by your system, host software, etc.)
- About 20 MB available hard disk space
- 800 x 600 screen resolution or higher
- A host program that supports 32- or 64-bit VST or Audio Unit plug-ins
- If you're using a 32-bit VST plug-in with a 64-bit host program, you could try jBridgeM, an inexpensive third-party 64-bit VST bridge program
- If you're using a 32-bit Audio Unit plug-in with a 64-bit host program, you could try 32 Lives from Sound Radix.
- If you need AAX support for Pro Tools, you could try the DDMF Metaplugin, but we haven't tested it with SFX Machine Pro and can't confirm whether it works. Another option might be Blue Cat's Patchwork; one customer says this works fine with the 64-bit SFX Machine Pro 1.5.0, but not with the 32-bit version.
- SFX Machine RT and Backwards Machine
- PPC Macintosh, G3 or above, or Intel-based Macintosh.
- OS X 10.3.9 or higher
- About 20 MB available RAM (in addition to that required by your system, host software, etc.)
- About 20 MB available hard disk space
- 800 x 600 screen resolution or higher
- A host program that supports 32-bit VST or Audio Unit plug-ins
- If you're using a 32-bit VST plug-in with a 64-bit host program, you could try jBridgeM, an inexpensive third-party 64-bit VST bridge program
- If you're using a 32-bit Audio Unit plug-in with a 64-bit host program, you could try 32 Lives from Sound Radix.
- If you need AAX support for Pro Tools, you could try the DDMF Metaplugin, but we haven't tested it with SFX Machine Pro and can't confirm whether it works. Another option might be Blue Cat's Patchwork .
- VST hosts include selected versions of:
- Ableton Live (3.0 or higher). SFX Machine Pro 1.5.0 may not work in Live 9, 64-bit mode, under Yosemite.
- BIAS Peak, Peak LE, and Peak DV (3.2 and higher)
- Celemony Melodyne 2.0 or higher
- Cycling '74 Max/MSP, v. 4.3 or higher
- DSound RT Player (2.1 or higher)
- DSP-Quattro 1.2
- Emagic Logic
- Mackie Tracktion
- Metro
- Plogue Bidule (beta with free demo)
- Steinberg Cubase SX and Nuendo
- TC|Works Spark XL and Spark LE (2.7.1 or higher)
- Audio Unit hosts (OS X only) include selected versions of:
- Ableton Live (4.0 or higher). SFX Machine Pro 1.5.0 may not work in Live 9, 64-bit mode, under Yosemite.
- Apple GarageBand
- Apple Logic Pro (or Emagic Logic 5.5.1 or higher)
- Apple Logic Studio
- Apple Logic Express
- Apple Soundtrack (version 1.10 or later)
- Apple Soundtrack Pro (but not version 3.0, which apparently does not support MIDI-enabled "MusicEffect" Audio Units!)
- Arizona AudioXplorer
- Audiofile Engineering Wave Editor
- BIAS Peak, Peak LE, and Peak DV 4.0 or higher, Peak Express, and Peak Pro
- Celemony Melodyne 2.0 or higher
- DSP-Quattro 1.2 or higher
- Freeverse Sound Studio 3.0 or higher
- Illposed Ouroboros (free beta)
- Intuem (2.0.1 or higher)
- Sagan Technology Metro (6.0 or higher)
- MOTU Digital Performer (version 4.1 or higher; best with 4.52 or higher)
- Numerology (version 1.2 or higher?)
- Plogue Bidule (beta with free demo)
- Rax (free beta)
- Rogue Amoeba Audio Hijack Pro
- Freeverse SoundStudio3
- SynthTest
- TC|Works Spark XL and Spark LE (2.8 or higher)
- WaveBurner
- Our software may work with the following Audio Unit host programs, but these have not been tested. You may want to test these using our demo downloads.
- Amadeus II and Pro (Good low-cost 2-track and multi-track editors) (works with versions before 1.45)
- Apple Final Cut Pro (forthcoming version?)
- Apple Final Cut Express (forthcoming version?)
- AudioXplorer
- Cycling '74 Max/MSP
- Sample Manager
- The VST to RTAS Adapter for Mac OS X is not supported.
- Win XP or higher
- About 10 MB available RAM (in addition to that required by your system, host software, etc.)
- About 10 MB available hard disk space
- 800 x 600 screen resolution or higher
- SFX Machine Pro 1.5.0 works with 32- or 64-bit host programs. If you're using a 64-bit host program with one of our other plug-ins, you could try jBridge, an inexpensive third-party 64-bit VST bridge program, or the Steinberg VST Bridge adapter: see this article, and this one.
- A host program that supports 32-bit VST plug-ins, including selected versions of:
- Ableton Live
- Adobe Audition CS6 (works with SFX Machine Pro 1.5.0).
- Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5
- AudioMulch
- Buzz (free)
- Cakewalk Project 5
- Cakewalk VST-DX Adapter
- Cakewalk Sonar 6
- Celemony Melodyne (2.0 or higher)
- DSound RT Player
- Emagic Logic (4.2 or higher)
- FL Studio (4.0 or higher)
- Fruity Loops (3.0 or higher)
- Mackie Tracktion
- Magix Samplitude (7.0 or higher)
- MultitrackStudio
- Plogue Bidule (beta, currently free)
- Sagan Technology Metro (32- and 64-bit)
- Screaming Bee - MorphVox Pro + Effects Rack (both required)
- Sony Acid Music Studio, Acid Pro, Vegas 6, Sound Forge 8 and Sound Forge Audio Studio 8
- Steinberg Cubase SX.
- Steinberg Nuendo
- Steinberg WaveLab (3.0 or higher; some people have reported problems with WaveLab 6)
- Synapse Orion / Orion Pro / Orion Platinum
- SynthEdit
- SynthFont (works with SFX Machine Pro 1.5.0)
- VSTHost86 (works with SFX Machine Pro 1.5.0)
- If your host program only supports DirectX plugins, you can .try using one of the following wrappers.
(Note: we haven't tested all combinations of these with all available host applications, but SFX Machine RT seemed to perform well with the Cakewalk VST Adapter.)
- Cakewalk VST Adapter
- Spin Audio VST-DX Wrapper Lite (free)
- Tonewise DirectiXer (30-day evaluation)
- The VST to RTAS Adapter for Windows from FXpansion is not supported. However, please note that SFX Machine Pro for RTAS is now available.
- If you need AAX support for Pro Tools, you could try the DDMF Metaplugin, but we haven't tested it with SFX Machine Pro and can't confirm whether it works.
We haven't tested our plug-ins with all of the above apps; if you encounter any incompatibilities, let us know so we can update this list. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions, or try the demo.
