It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of the company and its many offerings, so I thought I’d offer a short list of my favorites for those thinking of trying out some iZotope plugins. In April 2019, iZotope acquired Exponential Audio, adding a superb line of reverbs to its existing arsenal. Founded 2001 in Cambridge, MA, the company has earned dozens of awards including numerous NAMM TEC Awards, Emmy Awards, Cinema Audio Society Awards and MITX Awards to name a few.
I am in no way affiliated with Blue Cat nor do I have any advantages from “marketing” patchwork.IZotope produces some of the best and most respected software in the industry and has dominated post-production with its RX Post Production Suite. I will for sure buy it as soon as money hits my account! I do not own Patchwrok myself but I have downloaded the demo and done my testing there. This lets you use most Powercore plugs and instruments up to Sierra OS!
You can also buy Patchwork bundled with 32 bit lives that will turn most 32 bit plugs into a 64 bit interface. Patchwork also comes with it’s own bunch of FX units and a lot of presets.
PC users will not have that option but at least be able to try out VST or VST3. Nowadays most of instruments and plugs are both platforms so I do not seed the real value of it for that reason, but as mentioned when one platform is not working the other will. The same thing lets you load all VST in Logic if that is desired and the other way around. It also handles my old Lexicon MX 200 software for the external hardware unit. Tone Boosters _ Many mix and master plug-ins So far I have tested the following that does not work in Cubase 9 on my computer: Patchwork acts as a wrapper and can host a lot of software that Cubase cannot. I had a bunch of instruments and plugs that did not work after upgrading to Cubase 9 (and even some trouble in Cubase 8.5).
You need to spend EUR 99 on Blue Cats patchwork. If one of them do not work, the other will, at least for those tested.
Mind that I am on a MAC (but it will work in most PC’s as well) and that I have VST, VST3 and AU versions of plug-ins and instruments installed. The following costs a little but its solves a lot for me. Once I disabled PopClip, iZotope Trash works perfectly in Cubase. I disabled the extensions I had in the “Privacy” tab in the “Accessibility” section one by one, and it looks like extension PopClip ( ) was the one on my system that did not agree with Trash.
This should clear up the problem! We are working on a fix for this issue at the moment, but unfortunately I am unaware of when exactly any kind of update for this would be out. Try turning off anything checked in this window, especially the “Zoom” shortcuts.
Then navigate to the “Shortcuts” tab and click on the “Accessibility” section. If that does not work, one other thing I would recommend is to again go to the Mac System Preferences and click on the “Keyboard” page. That will most likely stop this problem from occurring. Be sure to disable everything in the list that says “Allow the apps below to control your computer.” Then, navigate to the “Privacy” tab and click on the “Accessibility” section.
Try opening your Mac System Preferences and clicking on the Security & Privacy page. This is generally any program that may have it’s own window resizing methods or keyboard shortcuts. There is an issue with the VST versions of our plug-ins on Mac when using another program that accesses the Mac Accessibility features. Thank you for contacting us and I apologize for any difficulty you may be having! FYI, I’m on OS X Yosemite and Cubase 8.10. I hope I can help with my contribution, thank you very much for your attention and patience. I contacted Izotope support, and they don’t know what happened with my setup, so I don’t know if is a Cubase bug or Izotope bug, because I use my plug ins with Wavelab and Logic and works great without troubles using or not using the Zoom app.
If the plug in is not in the window and use zooming, everything works fine, but if the plug in is open in the window and use zooming BOOM crash. I discovered that only Izotope plug ins crash if I use the Zoom app with Ctrl and scroll it up or down, but if I don’t use the shortcut to zoom in or out, Izotope plug ins works fine without crashes. After weeks I resolve this, in my case is a graphics problem, on my mac I use the “Zoom” app, to do zoom in or out with pressing Ctrl and moving the mouse scroll (System Preferences/Accessibility/Zoom), I use this wonderful app because I teach and it is important to see the parameters from close with my students.