@jfg said:

Where the gate input of the Gate Actor is set to initialize as off

 I forgot to mention this in my last post. Thank you @jfg !

@lorel

In addition to the other response...

When using .3ds files in Isadora, a critical format quirk requires the associated texture image file name to be 8 characters or fewer (excluding the extension). The legacy .3ds format strictly enforces this character limit for external asset references. Therefore, when preparing and unwrapping your 3D object in Blender, you must save your JPG or PNG texture with a very short file name (e.g., tex1.jpg or mesh_map.png) before exporting the geometry. If the image file name exceeds 8 characters, the file path breaks during export, and Isadora will fail to link or accept the texture.

Best WIshes

Russell

@theuhleese said:

Hi friends, Isadora does not like my VSTs and keeps crashing when I try to open it. I have tried following the instructions here but there is no file called "com.troikatronix.isadora.vst3-plugins.json" in my Preferences folder (Macintosh HD / Library / Preferences). I also tried deleting Isadora, resetting my computer, and reinstalling it. I cannot open Isadora at all at this point and every time I try to, it scans my VSTs for a while then says "Isadora USB quit unexpectedly." I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to fix this!

 P.S. In case this is helpful, I did earlier successfully follow the instructions to delete the preferences .json, in order to force a rescan of the VSTs (because I had to cancel it when I first installed Izzy). That seemed to work fine & Izzy said some of my VSTs worked & others were invalid. But now the application doesn't open at all!

Hi, it's been a minute since I have used IZZY, but I was curious about the DMX workflows. Now that we're in Izzy 4 (last time I used Izzy it was somewhere still in a 3 variant), what are the current best practices for sending and receiving DMX? I am mostly concerned about Art-Net and sACN because I never use ENTEC or USB DMX on my shows. I am interested in receiving cueing and show control data from an sACN source and doing projector dimming via Art-Net. Do you separate these out into indiviual VLANs on the machine? Do I have to do DMX over a single VLAN?

Hi friends,

Brand-new user here, please be gentle! :') 

I'm in the process of following the protocol to rescan all my VST3 plugins in Isadora USB Key (I quit this process during install, so went back and deleted the Preferences file, and it did re-start the scanning/validation process—KUDOS to the forum for helping with this!).

All of my plugins work fine in Ableton, but it looks like many of them have a Validation Warning in Izzy. Soundtoys and Native Instruments have a green check mark for Validation Passed, but UAD, Antares, and Aberrant DSP all have a "Validation Warning." 

Can anyone offer guidance as to why this might be happening & best practices on how to proceed? Should I just stick to the validated plugins and ignore the others?

In case it's relevant, I'm on an M5 Macbook Pro and many of the VST3s that come with a warning are connected to UA Connect / iLok. I don't have access to regular Isadora, only the USB Key version.

THANK YOU!