Au Generator not appearing - need help!

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I’m having an issue which is driving me crazy: If I set my plugin au type to kAudioUnitType_Generator, the plugin will not showup in Abelton or Garagbage. If I set it to kAudioUnitType_MusicEffect, there is no issue, howver, this is problematic because the nature of the plugin requires the processBlock method to always be called. From my understanding having the plugin set as a generator + having an infinite tail should solve this problem.

I’ve run the auval command and it’s detecting my plugin with no issues, so I’m really at a loss to figure out why it wont show up when the type is generator…

EDIT: Oh I went into more detail, auval is returning the following for my plugin: a_require: ValidFormat(inScope, inElement, newDesc) InvalidFormat /Users/nicholaslaroche/Downloads/JUCE/modules/juce_audio_plugin_client/AU/CoreAudioUtilityClasses/AUBase.cpp:870

EDIT #2: OK so I was not understanding auval, but the issue was although I switched from effect to generator, it was failing validation due to the midi inputs being at 2 instead of 0, apparently generators cannot have midi input… switched it, auval passes with flying, colours, and my damn plugin still wont show up in Live or GB…

Any ideas??

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Hi @nlaroche ,

I just came to your post while fighting a similar issue.
There seem to be a missing bit on the VST3 side for the “generator” type of plugin. My workaround for this is to build AU as generator that won’t be recognised by Ableton, as Ableton doesn’t seem to support Generator Type of Plugins (which have no midi inputs!) and for the VST3 version I tweak the plugin to be an “Instrument” with midi input (although ignored) and this way I can cover all DAWs.

In short: AU type Generator doesn’t allow midi input
No midi input in Ableton = invalid plugin.