Is there a trick to making MSpectralDynamics work?

Here's a nice guide by Bitflipper that may help
http://soundbytesmag.net/spectraldynamicsdynamiceq/
 
Here's a thread discussing it, that I picked that link up from
http://forum.cakewalk.com...ics-work-m3216341.aspx

Right now, I am exceedingly unimpressed with this thing. It has pretty serious issues in any host I've tried it in.
 
-- In Sound Forge 11 (VST2 32-bit), it just doesn't work. You can use it in preview, but it won't commit any audio changes. Pretty useless.
 
--In Sony Vegas 13 (VST2 64-bit) it causes severe stuttering and dropouts if GPU acceleration is enabled. Disabling that makes it work properly, it seems, though I haven't done a ton of testing. It did apply some changes to the audio at least.
 
--In Sonar Platinum (VST3 64-bit) it screws with soft synths. When I put it on the master bus, soft synths start dropping notes and so on. Take it off, things are fine. Not maxing my CPU, not even hardly touching it in fact (I have a pretty heavy hitting system) but for some reason it causes playback failures.
 
This thing is proving to be worse than useless: It actively causes problems.
 
Worse than that is that I want to like it. I'm amazed at the improvement it can make to sound without a lot of effort, which is good because I'm not a skilled mastering engineer. However getting it to actually let me apply that improvement to the sound I want is proving to be nearly impossible.
 
I hope I can get this fixed, it was not a particularly cheap plugin :P

In relation to my GPU, if they have problems with it then, well, they suck. I have a GeForce GTX 980 which is one of the heaviest hitting GPUs out there. It has power for days. Also nVidia has very good, stable drivers.
 

Well, it wasn't intended back in the day, however with DX11 and DXGI 1.3 there are pretty standard interfaces for sharing acceleration and using a GPU much like a CPU. Works quite well, but does require updating one's knowledge and code to the latest standards, and of course having hardware that supports it.
 
That aside I don't mind turning of GPU acceleration, I've loads of CPU power, I mind the "Oh we don't support Sound Forge" garbage. That annoys me. I'd buy it if there were numerous things that had problems with Sound Forge, but this is the first plugin I've heard that doesn't work with it. Likewise the plugins apparanlty didn't work right with Wavelab until Wavelab 7 and they can't complain about improper VST implementation there since, well, Steinberg decides what the VST standard is.

I understand that vendors do things different, and I'd be ok with "Oh there's a bug with Sound Forge, we'll look at it." However his response that they "don't implement VST standard correctly" and then that is is unsupported is silly. Clearly it is implemented well enough to load the plugins, also it is implemented well enough for other plugins to work properly, including free ones like LoudMax. He's got a code bug and isn't willing to admit/fix it and that rather annoys me, given that this was no inexpensive.

So it turns out to work fine in Sound Forge 10. That is very strange. For the moment, that's an acceptable solution, I have licenses for both versions.
 
Still having issues in Sonar with the VST2. It just seems to interrupt MIDI notes from playing, for whatever reason. Happening on Hailion Sonic, and Synthmaster at the very least.
 
gswitz: As I noted this is a case where I hear the sound I want in preview mode, but it doesn't apply when I hit ok. I already found out about the dry mix thing when I first started playing with it :).