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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Missing Audio Units Manager? Solution

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Well well well... This is something that does not seem to happen to a lot of people but it could happen to you...

You are trying to show your work to a client or a friend or your spouse or you are trying to demonstrate how Logic works to a fellow producer or student then...

(imagine a horror film soundtrack)
Your Audio Units plug-ins are missing... that crucial 3rd party instrument or plug-in is no more... they are not missing in Soundtrack or in that other DAW you use.
You look in every online forum for help and they all recommend "In Logic Pro open the Audio Units Manager and do this and that..."

Should be easy huh?

But when you try to open the AU Manager IT'S GONE!!! It won't open!!
You search again for a solution on this but there is no one talking about a missing AU Manager... they all talk about missing AU plug-ins but not the whole AU manager.

In Panic you try to install your 3rd party plugins again and NADA!!
You reinstall Logic, and it still does not show up!!

Well OK, enough with the drama here's the solution...

Open a Finder window and go to:

USER\Library\Caches\

Find and delete "com.apple.audiounits.cache"

restart your MAC, open Logic Pro and you shall see this (normally)

Then voilaa!!!
You have your AU Manager and AU Plugins back.


Fin.


HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!!!
Posted by Ricco Escalante at 1:59 PM
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16 comments:

  2. This described my problem precisely. However the solution didn't work for me either. There is no cache file anywhere on my Mac called "com.apple.audiounits.cache"
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  3. hello have you looked in the right library? remember OS X keeps 2, one for the user the other is a "general" one. hope that works. cheers!
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  4. Hi Guru Solare,
    I'm having the same issue. I did try your fix but am still unable to see the audio units manager.
    Any suggestions ?
    Thanks so much for the insight.
    Cheers
    Shapeshifter7
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  5. Hello Shapeshifter7, this fix is for people who have already tried the "normal" or conventional fix for this problem. Have you tried the first? Here's how:

    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=515195
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  6. "Open a Finder window and go to:

    USER\Library\Caches\

    Find and delete "com.apple.audiounits.cache"

    restart your MAC, open Logic Pro and you shall see this (normally)"


    This worked for me. Thanks!
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  9. Hi Guru Solare,
    I'm having the same issue. I did try your fix but am still unable to see the audio units manager.
    Any suggestions ?
    Thanks so much for the insight.
    Cheers
    Shapeshifter7
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  10. thank you so much you awesome human! I was in a lot of misery trying to find out what happened to my plugins.
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  12. I must say I really like it. Your imformation is usefull. Thanks for share.
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  13. Hi Guys I got (i hope) your answer! The same thing just happend to me. Open logic. Go to preferences>audio. Make sure that the enabled button is checked under the core audio tab. As soon as you check it-It will bring all your ish back....HURRAY!
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  14. hey marekconnell!!!! you are THE MAN....thank q so much. cheers
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  15. Gapped_tooth_tinkaOct 7, 2011 08:43 AM
    glad i found this was just about to wipe HD a start again saved me loads of grief!!!!
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  16. cant find the specified file, i recently upgraded to mac book pro 2.2, from my old 2.4 macbook, audio units manager opens in my old macbook, opens in my friends newer 13 inch macbook pro, but not on my macbook, ive tried absolutely everything, and it seems to have somehting to do with my physical macbook hardware as the exact same version of logic works on every other computer except mine, and i have tried everything, its driving me insane,anyone got a fix pleaseeeee let me know arghghghghg
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