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Manager Pane: Use NI Audio Units Checkbox (macOS Only)

On macOS, the

Manager

pane contains an additional

Use NI Audio Units

checkbox. Check this

box to include the Audio Units (AU) versions of your Native Instruments plug-ins in the soft-
ware’s Plug-in menus and in the controller’s Plug-in Browser:

If this checkbox is disabled (default setting), the AU versions of your Native Instruments

plug-ins are still listed in the list above but they are disabled (checkbox unchecked): These

plug-ins won’t appear in the

Native Instruments

submenu of the Plug-in menus (software)

or in the Plug-in Browser (controller). Additionally, the remaining entries for Native Instru-

ments plug-ins (all of them VST) won’t display the

(VST)

mention next to their name.

If you enable the

Use NI Audio Units

checkbox, all Native Instruments’ AU plug-ins are en-

abled in the list above and are available for loading in MASCHINE. In order to distinguish
them from the VST versions, plug-in entries in the

Native Instruments

submenu of the

Plug-in menus and in the Plug-in Browser will display either

(VST)

or

(AU)

after their name.

You can also enable or disable Native Instruments’ AU plug-ins individually in the list via the
checkboxes described above — as soon as you enable one of them, the

Use NI Audio Units

checkbox is automatically activated.

The

Use NI Audio Units

checkbox relates only to AU plug-ins from Native Instruments. AU plug-ins

from third-party manufacturers are not affected by this setting.

When the

Use NI Audio Units

checkbox is disabled or the AU version of a Native Instruments plug-

in is disabled, you can still load Projects that use AU plug-ins.

Location Pane

To display the

Location

pane, click the

Location

button at the top of the

Plug-ins

page.

In the

Locations

section of the

Plug-ins

page, you can manage the various plug-in directories

you want to use in MASCHINE.

Basic Concepts

Preferences

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