VST3 plugins are buggy and very slow in Spectral Layers

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I’ll check those plugins to see what happens here.

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Here the following observations:

  • Chopiness seem to depend on FFT-size and Buffer-Size
    Lowering the Buffer-Size allow higher FFT-size and vice versa.

  • While running a plugin with Preview and than trying to switch to another plugin, Spectral Layers crashes completely after around 5 seconds. The programm just closes, i. e. disappears.
    It doesn’t matter which plugin is active or to which other plugin it should switch.
    During the 5 seconds, the programm does not react to anything, like frozen to ice.
    After restart comes the known “Recover Sesssion… Would you like to recover?”

  • To check with Audacity: Here it is running smoothly and we can switch plugins during playback easily.

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@Marc_von_Bredow Do you have preview issue with other modules as well, or just the VST3 Effects module ?

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Just using VST3

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Same here as ctreitzell with FabFilters’ ProQ3 ans ProMB; they don’t animate. Have never done in any SL version.
I’m on Mac Studio M1 64 GB.

Speaking of VST3 plugins, the plugins from Plugin-Alliance/Brainworx don’t show any presets, the menus are not visible.
That goes for the SPL deessers and transient designers and the Black Box Analog Design HG-2/HG-2MS, as well as their amps to name a few. Been like that since the plugins function was implemented.

No crashes with any VST3 plugin though, ever. Plugin chains work well.

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most of the other VSTs I have been using are all NR plugs
so, hoping to not use DeNoises and DeBuzzes anymore and use SL for those types of my NR

I do use Acon DeClick and will continue to use it…it’s just so easy

and I think the Acon DeClip is an excellent tool too…I haven’t tried those in SL preview yet tho

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I’ve been trying out the VST plugins and noticed that on many of them, the parameters can’t be changed during preview. That’s not a good working situation. I’ll check my FFT settings to see if perhaps that has any bearing on it.

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@Bernie_Beaudry Can you name a couple plugins that have this issue on SL11 ?

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