Logic does not recognise Plugins

Product Support Stillwell Audio Plugs
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Hi,

I purchased the major tom, i have installed it, am using an M1 mac. I have tried opening Logic Rosetta and rescanning all plugins, as suggested in another thread. It still does not show up.

Please advise.

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Okay, so…

  1. Make sure that you have rebooted after installing.
  2. Change Logic to launch in Rosetta mode.
  3. Launch and scan your plugins.
  4. Switch Logic back to Native mode.

You should find at this point that the plugin shows up. I’m not sure which step will be the one that actually fixes your particular installation, but after doing all of them it absolutely SHOULD show up.

I’m testing it on my M1 Mac mini and steps 2, 3, and 4 are not sufficient by themselves. I’m going to reboot and I’ll be right back to update here.

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Yep, as soon as I rebooted and launched Logic, Major Tom was there. That may actually be the only thing you need to do - I know that the “reboot after installing new Audio Units” thing has been showing up for more vendors than just us for the past few releases of macOS - Intel or Apple Silicon.

If you continue to run into issues, let me know here or open a support ticket - either is fine.

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ha - literally, a restart of my computer did the trick. I feel like an idiot for not turning it off and turning it back on.

Thanks Scott.
MQ

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Cool, glad it’s sorted! Enjoy!

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There’s a cool script called PlugInstall at https://pluginstall.com/ that helps with this situation. Costs $1.00 and is totally worth it. You click on the script icon and then LPX will recognize newly installed plugins without needing to reboot your entire system. I’ve been using it for a couple years now and it works great, including on my M1 Max MBP. Huge time saver when installing lots of plugins. :slight_smile:

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It’s not actually necessary to buy any products, just turn on your terminal. Type killall -9 AudioComponentRegistrar and enter, all you need to do is restart your DAW to search for your plugin, and DEV can also add this command to the installation process, plugins like Sylenth1 and others have added this command to their code. This command is 100% safe, just make sure to ask the user to shut down all DAWs before installing!

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A little late to the party, but, it’s good to be back to @stillwellaudio.

My issue is similar, but, I’m using a Mac Mini M2 Pro, running Logic Pro 11.

After years of using these plugins I have found updating them on my new system to be problematic.

I can see the Plugin Component in the correct Folder and in the Plugin manager for Logic, it just won’t load as a working plugin?

Please help! :star_struck:

P.s the plugin I’ve tried is Event Horizon

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Also a little late to the party for this reply. :grinning_face: With the original non-Universal Binary versions of the Stillwell plugins I was able to get LP11 (on my M1Max MBP) to scan and recognize them by opening LP11 in Rosetta mode. LP11 will see them if it’s in Rosetta mode and scan them like normal. Then once they get scanned in Rosetta mode you can set LP11 back to normal Universal mode and the plugins should show up as expected. Good luck!

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