Unable to see patch gui/controls when loaded into DAW

[taariqelliott]

I was going through the examples and loading the patches, but I'm unable to see any of the controls or GUI for those examples. I can run the patch and see it inside of VS Code, but the plugin box remains black when a patch is dragged into a DAW.

[julianstorer]

That's very odd, we've not seen anything like that.. Are you running a very old version of OSX or something? Tried it in any other DAWs?

[taariqelliott]

I also tested on Ableton with the same result.

Yes, unfortunately, the highest OS I can download for my Mac is Catalina 10.15.7. Would you recommend using one of the earlier versions of CMajor?

[cesaref]

I believe we're building for 10.15, so in theory this should work, however i'm not sure what the earliest OS version we've actually tried running on here. I'll see if I can dig out an old machine with 10.15 and see if I can recreate this issue. It would be worth running a patch using the cmaj command line tool as well, to ensure it's not a host issue rather than a plugin issue

[taariqelliott]

Thanks for the response!

I also checked to see if I could run a patch from the command line but also received just a black screen.

[daveight]

Hey @taariqelliott This is how it worked for me: Mac OS, Macbook M1

1. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/cmajor-lang/cmajor.git
2. Copy VST3 plugin to the /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3
3. Open your DAW -> add the plugin to a MIDI track (I use Ableton) -> You will see Drag-and-drop a .cmajorpatch file here to load it dialog
4. Open in Finder the diretory: <folder where you have cloned the cmajor>/examples/patches/Pro54
5. Drag and drop Pro54.cmajorpatch file on the dialog -> you should now see the UI