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Dear FisherKing First, thank you for the YouTube link. nice. Second, thank you for the tip - So it is a reverse effect then? I will try that. Kind regards Hod

Dave. Like a bus, 2 messages at once from me.... Glad to hear you got sorted. I thought about taking up cudgels with Steinberg but decided to cut my losses and put it down to experience. I love Yamaha music hardware in general (I have a fab Motif XS rack) but have been underwhelmed by the whole Steinberg thing, though obviously folks still like Cubase for good reason. My takeaway is that I am not in a hurry to spend serious money on Steinberg any time soon. Besides, they have committed the cardinal sin of allowing their GUIs on their instruments to remain in 2 point font against black skins, just llke NI do with Kontakt instruments. I wish they and NI would hurry up annd roll out re-sizeable GUI's. Oh Oh, soap box urge coming on.... Unify is astonishingly nimble but powerful. If you haven't already done so, book yourself hours with John Skippy Lemkhul's Youtube videos and live updates; in terms of value for money his plugins and his freebie tips on using Unify are to my mind second to none. I am a lover of all things Omnisphere and his patches for that and tips etc are just great. A really good advert for a decent human being! Regards Hod

Hi I wish there was a shallow end part of this site where learners could splash around harmlessly and ask basic questions.... I'd like to know what the name of a particular effect is on a track (I am unable to upload an audio recording of the extract to this forum. I tried AIFFF, WAV and MP3 - no more than 3 MB and 15 secs long - is there a way to do this or is it prohibited?) It is part of a piece called "Transition" by Phil France from his album "The Swimmer". If you can play that track, at around 1:00 min in, you will hear his simple piano chords change using almost a kind of reverse effect but I don't think that's what it is. What is that effect and how do I replicate it? Many thanks Hod

Dave Sorry, just saw your post there from -3 months ago. Good job we are all humungously patient people and not in a hurry or anything... As to using Padshop in Unify (1.3.2), sorry about my sloth-like response and you may well have solved it already, but FWIW, this is how I get Padshop visible: 1. Create a new instance of Unify in standalone mode. 2. Click on the green circle to the right of the default sound "Sine Wave Synth." You should then see the drop down menu appear. 3. Scroll down the drop down menu to "Swap: All Instruments": You should see all your installed plugins. 4. For me, I have the option of scrolling down to "Steinberg" and "Steinberg Media technologies" to choose from. Both of them have an instance of "Padshop". 5. When I click Padshop, Padhsop 2 opens. 6. The trick then with Padshop is finding where the default installation path might be. I think the CIA or the NSA move it randomly around my hard drive or external SSDs to induce paranoia, fear and self-loathing. 7. I can then play Padshop from my Komplete Kontrol S49 keyboard. The above steps can be replicated from within Logic Pro by opening Unify from within LPX and going to install Padshop per the above. Hope you get on OK. I am on Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6. The rest of my Steinberg plugins such as Halion etc all work just fine and are visible within LPX. It may well be a Steeiberg bug, but the entire experience and lack of speed in getting any kind of coherent response from steinberg has put me off. I am going to stick to Unify, Omnisphere and the recently discovered delights of Roland cCoud (while trying to keep CPU usage manageable). Kind regards Hod

Thanks Des99, grasshopper is learning..!

David - you are so good at replying and thank you. I don't fully understand your answer, but I will treat it as homework! Thanks. Hod

OK, chief muppet here again. I have just figured out (glacier speed...) a workaround is to dive down 2 octaves on my NI physical keyboard and lo and behold, I can trigger the same custom chords that I can see on the GUI on screen. And LPX can now record the midi data. That said, is there a way of LPX recording me playing the GUI keyboard using a mouse..? Thanks.

I installed Guitar Swell (In Session Audio) yesterday and it plays just fine in NI Kontakt. I can record it in LPX (10.5.1), using my Komplete Kontrol midi keyboard. The issue though is that I cannot record Guitar Swell using Kontakt's GUI keyboard. Guitar Swell has a row of keys on the GUI keyboard for playing "Custom Chords". I can play those fine using my mouse, and LPX plays them - LPX shows the volume in the volume fader and I can hear sound coming through my speakers just fine. However LPX will not record it. No midi data coming through. I have tried variations of Midi channel (Omni vs 1 etc) in LPX and trying to route the audio through a bus to an audio track - all to no avail. I am clearly missing something crashingly easy and obvious... Does anybody have any pointers? I tend not to dabble in the settings of Kontakt, but I guess the answer may well be buried there somewhere, perhaps? Thanks all. Regards Hod

Update. OK, after yet another comprehensive removal of every bit of Padshop 2 and a full re-install, deleting AU cache, LPX prefs I have managed to get Unify (by Pluginguru) to not only see Padshop 2, but play its presets - hooray. I can also load Unify from within LPX so that is a kind of workaround. LPX still refuses to show Padshop 2 as a drop down instrument however, so we'll just have to see what the Steinberg gurus think. Thanks everyone for chipping in. Kind regards Hod.

Dear blinkofani Thank you. It's a long story but I (am 99.9% convinced I) had Padshop Pro, having upgraded from Padshop before that. That worked just fine with LPX. But when I bought the Padshop 2 upgrade, suddenly my problems started. I decided it must be human error - my e-licenser suddenly said I didn't have the licence for Padshop 2 upgrade or Padshop, so I started to doubt myself. (but how could it work in LPX if I didn't have the licence? I try to buy software properly and avoid dubious sites). I bit the bullet and paid full price for a new Padshop 2 and did a clean install. I am on Mac OS 10.14.6. Yes I am trawling through the Steinberg forums. I think the answer might lie in the AU validation. LPX plugin manager says that it has "successfully validated" Padshop 2 (it has a tick next to Padshop 2), but I had not spotted something that happens; When you press reset and rescan selection, a new window opens. It validated the Padshop AU but then at the very bottom it has a line I ignored saying "updating properties of Padshop by Steinberg", followed by 3 little dots. Interesting to see you experience of Steinberg. The phrase you use I think means "They cannot afford their ambitions" i.e they are over-reaching themselves. Kind regards Hod

Enossified Mea culpa. Steinberg says Padshop 2 works with VST, AU & AAX Hod

Des99 Thanks for that. I tried some of those ideas but nothing has worked. I am going to see if Padshop2 is accessible from within Unify. Kind regards Hod

Jakob Thanks, yes, several million restarts.... ! Hod

Hi folks and hopefully somebody here can help. I have posted on Steinberg's forum as well, as this is one of their products - Padshop 2, a VST3 plugin. I am waiting for their support team to get back to me. I am running Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6 on a Macbook Pro 2017. The issue is that while LPX (10.5.1) can "see" Padshop using the plugin manager, Padshop 2 is not available as drop down menu item in LPX. I have other Steinberg products installed (e.g Absolute 3 collection) and they all work just fine. 1. I installed Padshop 2 seemingly successfully using Steinberg's recommended Library Manager and Download Assistant. 2. It has all registered fine with E-Licenser (6.11.10.2266) and registered on my account with Steinberg. 3. LPX can "see" Padshop using the plugin manager (it shows as simply "Padshop" 2.0.10 which I think is the latest Padshop 2 version. The plugin manager has reset and scanned the plugin and appears to have successfully validated it. 4. I previously had Padshop Pro installed and it all worked fine with LPX and could be installed in a track with no issue. Since installing Padshop 2, it has all gone to pot. 5. To try and fix this I have performed no end of clean uninstall and reinstalls of Padshop 2; I have deleted the AU cache several thousand times; re-set LPX prefs; kept the Mac gatekeeper open & unlocked (to allow apps downloaded from identified developers); kept the e-licenser open. Short of blood sacrifice of my teenage children I am running out of road. 6. Might it be the location of where Steinberg's library manager and download assistant has placed the content that is the issue? I am not that au fait with the different libraries Apple has and fiddling about in different application support folders etc never seems advisable unless you have clear instructions. I throw myself on the mercy of this group! Thanks Hod

Thanks folks. All part of the learning curve I guess Kind regards Hod