Releases: acobley/Project6-VSTi
Release list
Project6 1.2.0.0
Project6 1.2.0.0
An 8 × 8 bank of looping sample pads, launched on the bar, for macOS, as a
VST3 and an Audio Unit.
What changed since 1.1.1.0
- Projects travel. Each pad's file is now saved inside the project, so a
project sent to someone else opens with every pad playing, whether or not
they have your files. The copy in the project is the one that plays, so a
project always sounds as it was saved; to pick up a sample you have edited
since, drop it on the pad again. Moving, copying or swapping pads takes the
saved copy with it. - Factory samples folder. Files in
/Users/Shared/Project6/Samples— the
same path on every Mac — are not copied into projects, because every copy
of Project6 can have them. The installer fills that folder when a release
ships factory samples. - Clear a pad: right-click (or Control-click) it and choose Clear pad.
The file leaves the project too. - "File not found" is now told apart from "could not be read" on a pad
whose file has gone.
Projects saved with earlier versions still open, reading their files from
disk as before; save them once in 1.2.0.0 and their files are saved in too.
Projects saved with 1.2.0.0 open in earlier versions, which ignore the saved
files and read from disk.
Projects are larger by the size of the files on their pads. In REAPER,
which saves the plug-in's state at every undo step, a project with many long
WAVs may make editing feel slower.
What it does
Drag a .wav onto a slot and click it to arm it; it comes in when the
transport crosses the next grid line, and stops on the line after that. Each
pad picks its own grid — 1/1, 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 of a bar, so everything
nests and a 1/8 pad and a 1/1 pad start together on the downbeat. A box above
each column launches that whole column at once.
A slot can hold a .mid instead, looping on the same grid and playing out of
its row's MIDI output — row A on channel 1 through row H on channel 8 — with a
transpose of up to two octaves in place of a level bar.
Each row sums through its own fader, and there are nine output buses: the
main stereo mix plus a per-row direct out, tapped before the row fader, so
the fader balances the mix without changing what leaves for the desk.
Which pads were armed is saved with the project, and comes back armed. A pad
whose file has gone missing since it was saved comes back dark rather than lit
and silent.
Installing
Download Project6-1.2.0.0.pkg and open it. The installer offers the
formats separately:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Project6.vst3
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Project6.component
Quit your DAW first — a running host holds the old copy open. Signed with a
Developer ID and notarised by Apple.
Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
Two host quirks, neither of them this plug-in
- In REAPER, use the VST3. REAPER never asks an Audio Unit whether it has
MIDI output and never sets a callback for one, so a MIDI pad's notes have
nowhere to go there. The plug-in emits them; the host is not listening. The
VST3 works in REAPER and the AU works in Logic. - Apple's AUMIDISynth goes silent at a transport loop point and stays
silent until the transport is stopped, while the MIDI goes on arriving. Use
a different synth if you loop.
Both were traced property by property rather than guessed at;
PORTING-NOTES.md §0 and §0a have the investigations.
Uninstalling
A .pkg never will, so:
sudo rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Project6.vst3
sudo rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Project6.componentChecksum
SHA-256: 037556410110d5d03e9f2f2987d4d381d0c70d2b5f10c746648261526b4f4a95
Copyright 2026 A. E. Cobley. CC BY-SA 4.0.
VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.
Project6 1.1.1.0
Project6 1.1.1.0
An 8 × 8 bank of looping sample pads, launched on the bar, for macOS, as a
VST3 and an Audio Unit.
What changed since 1.1.0.0
- The maker is now "AE Cobley", in both formats — it was "A. E. Cobley".
REAPER files an Audio Unit's presets under its name cut off at the first
full stop, so every A. E. Cobley Audio Unit shared one REAPER preset list
and showed the others' presets, which did nothing when chosen. The
plug-in's identity codes are unchanged, so projects saved with earlier
versions still open with Project6 in place. - The version is reported correctly. Earlier builds told hosts they were
1.0.0.1 (VST3) and 1.0.0 (Audio Unit) whatever the release; this one says
1.1.1.0.
Nothing in the sound changed.
After upgrading, some things stay where earlier versions left them:
- Presets you saved in a host that files them by maker are in
~/Library/Audio/Presets/A. E. Cobley/Project6. Move them to
~/Library/Audio/Presets/AE Cobley/Project6to see them again. - In REAPER, AU presets you saved earlier stay in REAPER's old shared list
and will not appear under the new name. The VST3 is unaffected. - Some hosts list the plug-in under its maker; look under AE Cobley.
What it does
Drag a .wav onto a slot and click it to arm it; it comes in when the
transport crosses the next grid line, and stops on the line after that. Each
pad picks its own grid — 1/1, 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 of a bar, so everything
nests and a 1/8 pad and a 1/1 pad start together on the downbeat. A box above
each column launches that whole column at once.
A slot can hold a .mid instead, looping on the same grid and playing out of
its row's MIDI output — row A on channel 1 through row H on channel 8 — with a
transpose of up to two octaves in place of a level bar.
Each row sums through its own fader, and there are nine output buses: the
main stereo mix plus a per-row direct out, tapped before the row fader, so
the fader balances the mix without changing what leaves for the desk.
Which pads were armed is saved with the project, and comes back armed. A pad
whose file has gone missing since it was saved comes back dark rather than lit
and silent.
Installing
Download Project6-1.1.1.0.pkg and open it. The installer offers the two
formats separately:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Project6.vst3
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Project6.component
Quit your DAW first — a running host holds the old copy open. Signed with a
Developer ID and notarised by Apple.
Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
Two host quirks, neither of them this plug-in
- In REAPER, use the VST3. REAPER never asks an Audio Unit whether it has
MIDI output and never sets a callback for one, so a MIDI pad's notes have
nowhere to go there. The plug-in emits them; the host is not listening. The
VST3 works in REAPER and the AU works in Logic. - Apple's AUMIDISynth goes silent at a transport loop point and stays
silent until the transport is stopped, while the MIDI goes on arriving. Use
a different synth if you loop.
Both were traced property by property rather than guessed at;
PORTING-NOTES.md §0 and §0a have the investigations.
Uninstalling
A .pkg never will, so:
sudo rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Project6.vst3
sudo rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Project6.componentChecksum
SHA-256: 7a7b732e7b0f69f4b1ea6ff460ee8525b1b85b64c614b68e5c86f7b310e341b7
Copyright 2026 A. E. Cobley. CC BY-SA 4.0.
VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.
Project6 1.1.0.0
Project6 1.1.0.0
An 8 × 8 bank of looping sample pads, launched on the bar, for macOS, as a
VST3 and an Audio Unit.
New in 1.1.0.0
Rest the pointer on a pad and you see what is in it, behind the main
display: a waveform for a .wav, a piano roll for a .mid. Dropping
a file on a pad shows it too, at once.
Pointing costs nothing and makes no sound, so looking at what a pad holds is
no longer a matter of playing it. It takes a moment's dwell rather than the
crossing of a border, so sweeping across the bank leaves the display alone
rather than strobing through eight pads on the way past.
The piano roll scales to the range of pitches the file actually uses, not
to a full keyboard: a two-octave bass line and a two-octave melody both fill
the rectangle, and the notes read in relation to each other. Long patterns are
thinned by taking every Nth note rather than the first few hundred, so the
shape of the whole thing survives.
Both summaries are computed once, when the file loads, and never on the
audio thread. Neither is in the signal path at all.
This release is universal (arm64 + x86_64), which is what the installer
has always advertised.
What it does
Drag a .wav onto a slot and click it to arm it; it comes in when the
transport crosses the next grid line, and stops on the line after that. Each
pad picks its own grid — 1/1, 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 of a bar, so everything
nests and a 1/8 pad and a 1/1 pad start together on the downbeat. A box above
each column launches that whole column at once.
A slot can hold a .mid instead, looping on the same grid and playing out of
its row's MIDI output — row A on channel 1 through row H on channel 8 — with a
transpose of up to two octaves in place of a level bar.
Each row sums through its own fader, and there are nine output buses: the
main stereo mix plus a per-row direct out, tapped before the row fader, so
the fader balances the mix without changing what leaves for the desk.
Which pads were armed is saved with the project, and comes back armed. A pad
whose file has gone missing since it was saved comes back dark rather than lit
and silent.
Installing
Download Project6-1.1.0.0.pkg and open it. The installer offers the two
formats separately:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Project6.vst3
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Project6.component
Quit your DAW first — a running host holds the old copy open. Signed with a
Developer ID and notarised by Apple.
Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
Two host quirks, neither of them this plug-in
- In REAPER, use the VST3. REAPER never asks an Audio Unit whether it has
MIDI output and never sets a callback for one, so a MIDI pad's notes have
nowhere to go there. The plug-in emits them; the host is not listening. The
VST3 works in REAPER and the AU works in Logic. - Apple's AUMIDISynth goes silent at a transport loop point and stays
silent until the transport is stopped, while the MIDI goes on arriving. Use
a different synth if you loop.
Both were traced property by property rather than guessed at;
PORTING-NOTES.md §0 and §0a have the investigations.
Uninstalling
A .pkg never will, so:
sudo rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Project6.vst3
sudo rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Project6.componentChecksum
92add2a99108f1fe8cecfec477acf66490f7f87ebfe92a3e1b2aca80ff572db3 Project6-1.1.0.0.pkg
Copyright 2026 A. E. Cobley. CC BY-SA 4.0.
VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.
Project6 1.0.0.1
Project6 1.0.0.1
An 8 × 8 bank of looping sample pads, launched on the bar, for macOS, as a
VST3 and an Audio Unit.
Drag a .wav onto a slot and click it to arm it; it comes in when the
transport crosses the next grid line, and stops on the line after that. Each
pad picks its own grid — 1/1, 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 of a bar, so everything
nests and a 1/8 pad and a 1/1 pad start together on the downbeat. A box above
each column launches that whole column at once.
A slot can hold a .mid instead, looping on the same grid and playing out of
its row's MIDI output — row A on channel 1 through row H on channel 8 — with a
transpose of up to two octaves in place of a level bar.
Each row sums through its own fader, and there are nine output buses: the
main stereo mix plus a per-row direct out, tapped before the row fader, so
the fader balances the mix without changing what leaves for the desk.
Installing
Download Project6-1.0.0.1.pkg and open it. The installer offers the two
formats separately:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Project6.vst3
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Project6.component
Quit your DAW first — a running host holds the old copy open. Signed with a
Developer ID and notarised by Apple.
Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
Two host quirks, neither of them this plug-in
- In REAPER, use the VST3. REAPER never asks an Audio Unit whether it has
MIDI output and never sets a callback for one, so a MIDI pad's notes have
nowhere to go there. The plug-in emits them; the host is not listening. The
VST3 works in REAPER and the AU works in Logic. - Apple's AUMIDISynth goes silent at a transport loop point and stays
silent until the transport is stopped, while the MIDI goes on arriving. Use
a different synth if you loop.
Both were traced property by property rather than guessed at;
PORTING-NOTES.md §0 and §0a have the investigations.
Uninstalling
A .pkg never will, so:
sudo rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Project6.vst3
sudo rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Project6.componentChecksum
c82983392897b0bca54d939008b8166d7aba75a455c98ad00a750c8865d4c53d Project6-1.0.0.1.pkg
Copyright 2026 A. E. Cobley. CC BY-SA 4.0.
VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.