Nuendo 12 Bring back LoopMash VST Instrument not just LoopMash FX

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@MixMike

I’m referring to an existing Nuendo 11 installation on Windows here (my setup):

1. The LoopMash2 plugin is located in the VST3 folder of Nuendo and called “LoopMash_x64.vst3”. Copy that to your VST3 plugin folder (preferrably a subfolder of course).
2. Additionally it requires a DLL: pulseOSC_x64.dll. That is located in the root folder of the Nuendo installation and has to be copied over to mentioned folder as well.
3. The user presets are located in your Documents folder under “VST3 Presets\Steinberg Media Technologies\LoopMash”. You don’t need to copy them, unless you’re moving to another machine.
4. The factory presets are a different story and cannot be made accessible by a simple file copy operation. I spare you the details, wouldn’t be of much use to you anyway.

And: please do check and tell whether you actually got a Nuendo 11 license on your eLicenser (in addition to your Nuendo 12 license in your account and on your machine).

So, thank you MixMike again. The solution given here only works if a user has a Nuendo eLicenser license that is from version 11 or before. Buying a license for Nuendo 12 from scratch will not allow a user to use LoopMash at all. But if a user does have a Nuendo 11 license still showing up on their eLicenser, they can follow MixMike’s instructions to make LoopMash instrument (not just the LoopMash FX) work on their Nuendo 12 installation, at least until Steinberg kills the eLicenser. At that point, LoopMash will die with the eLicenser protection scheme, or Steinberg will rewrite the code to make LoopMash instrument work with the new software protection scheme. Let’s hope.
The fix is simple (makes sense) once one understands the absolute need to have a version of Nuendo that is prior to version 12 showing up on one’s eLicenser. Otherwise, no possible LoopMash instrument. The steps are here as MixMike put them. Steps 1 and 2 are all you really need to follow to make this work.
1. The LoopMash2 plugin is located in the VST3 folder of Nuendo and called “LoopMash_x64.vst3”. Copy that to your VST3 plugin folder (preferably a subfolder of course).
2. Additionally it requires a DLL: pulseOSC_x64.dll. That is located in the root folder of the Nuendo installation and has to be copied over to mentioned folder as well.

Mine now works perfectly in both my old Nuendo 11 and my new Nuendo 12. Thank you everyone who added your thoughts and ideas to this topic.