[stevejohnsonmusic]

Thank you Brad and Jord for your input.

Ultimately I decided trying to work cross-platform was going to be problematic, and the Windows laptop was pretty old anyway, so I ended up replacing it with a maxed-out refurb mid-2018 15.4″ Macbook Pro. So now I can run DP on the same platform, using the same plugin format, on both machines. Hopefully this will simplify things.

On to the next challenge: how to change SD3 presets or patches under DAW control? Digital Performer allows me to have unlimited sequences within a file. I want to use a single instance of SD3 in a “V-Rack”, so that each sequence in the file points to the same single instance of SD3, conserving resources. I was hoping for MIDI program change messages to allow me to change the drumkit for different songs, but that doesn’t appear to be an option.

I created a new post on this topic, if you have any tips I’d be grateful:

https://www.toontrack.com/forums/topic/sd3-midi-program-change-yet/

Thanks,
Steve

Reply To: Converting AU plugin presets for VST2 plugin? version: 3.2.4
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

[stevejohnsonmusic]

I was saving from within the plugin frame/window in Digital Performer. This is the default way to save presets in DP. I wasn’t aware there was a different way to save in SD3, let me look into that. Thanks!

[stevejohnsonmusic]

Thanks for your replies! 🙂

AU preset files (AU stands for “Audio Units” and is a proprietary Apple plugin format that’s not compatible with anything on Windows) have a completely different structure than VST files and they are not interchangeable.

(I was trying to post the preset file contents but the forum software is interpreting the the file code as HTML and it’s blowing up.)

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