I am a Mac and Cubase/Dorico user so I Have no real use for AUs.
Until MG3 came along that is! So I now need to install AUs which I never did in the past!
Of, course I can still use MG3 with Cubase and then use VSTs but the flexibility of use MG3 standalone has advantages.
I’ve been using the most recent beta with an M4 mac, and the VG-800. I setup two audio inputs for VG-800 stereo audio input. I route the audio output to the headphone output of the Mac. I’m using Pigments, Plasmonic, Blackhole, Enso, Arturia preamps and compressors, Sigmund 2, all in one preset. It doesn’t struggle at all, never going above 1/4 of the CPU usage with 64 buffer.
25% cpu with all those toys at 64 samples is very very nice.
how much ram do you have? how many cores? which cpu? thanks
It’s not MG3 that runs into CPU problems but it can be the plugins hosted. When I use the VG-800 on my win laptop (which is by no means optimized for audio applications) and the Hex tracker, it might be that Kontakt reaches easy 100% CPU load and produces more dropouts than sound. This with a system that isn’t too bad in numbers (i9-14900HX @2.2GHz / 32 cores / 32Gb RAM).
Base model M4 Mac Mini with 10 cores (4 performance and 6 efficiency) and 16 gigs of ram. The CPU has a clock speed up to 4.3 ghz.
I have the new VG-800 and it works well for guitar modeling but the pitch to midi can be glitchy on the lower strings. I have Midi Guitar 3 running inside Ableton with the Hex Tracker and it works so much much better than the Boss pitch conversion. Just wanted to say thanks to the developer.
On mac .61 beta, I’m not getting stereo out. I’m using the VG-800 as input and the mac’s headphone as output. It is the same output in left and right (mono summed).
At least you get something, when I try that I have no sound through the headphones. The “Test” button on the extended audio device settings page inside MG3 delivers a test tone, also other applications work fine with the headphone output.
Thank you very much!
This is very thoroughly handled.
No congestions whatsoever!
Fantastic work!
Can somebody help me get stereo audio out? I’m using VG-800 for input and Scarlett 4th Gen for audio out. Using them separately or as an aggregate device, I can’t get stereo output.
I have no issues using the VG-800 as input and the X32 mixer as output getting the full stereo image.
Is there a specific reason why you don’t use the VG-800 as output as well?
Because the VG-800 doesn’t have a direct monitor off function. I don’t want to hear the audio plus another audio stream with effects. By using a different audio output, I bypass the direct monitoring.
I’m not sure what you mean with “another audio stream with effects”. The VG-800 patch volume I set to zero via foot pedal and I hear only what comes back from the DAW (edit: or MG3 standalone) if I use the VG-800 for in- and output.
You can bypass the internal VG-800 sounds if you select “re-guitar” under “Menu” > “In/Out Settings” > “USB Audio” > “Routing” (set it to “Re-Guitar” here)
O.K. I have a Guitar patch playing on the VG-800. I want that audio to come through MG3 in standalone so I choose an audio source to hear the patch and send it through audio plugin processing. I hear not only the audio processed in MG3, but also the audio coming out of the headphones attached to the VG-800. Understand? I don’t want that. I want only the audio processed in MG3 coming through the headphones. Typically the audio interface has a “direct monitor off” so you don’t hear the audio duplicated. The VG-800 doesn’t have this option.
And exactly this happens when you either set the patch level to zero or select “re-guitar” in the VG-800 menu.
You sure you’re getting a stereo image? Call up a synth and pan it hard right and hard left, and then tell me you’re getting a stereo image.
Yes, I can pan it hard left and right and it does what is panned via stereo headphone output (L) on the VG-800 or connected with L+R over the mixer.
Edit: I used Equator 2 with a patch that has automated pan controls > all is fine
Crazy. Every BOSS hex device to date (that I’m aware of) has had a direct monitor off option. Is it the same in the GM-800?
Hello Luke, yes, the GM-800 you can also bypass with same approach. Menu > In/Out Settings > USB Audio > Audio Routing “Re-Synth”.