fxp2aupreset is a tool for converting VST presets to AU presets.
fxp2aupreset has modest requirements; it just needs the construct library.
fxp2aupreset requires information about the instrument whose presets are to
be converted. You can retrieve that information by finding your instrument using
auval -a
You'll see a bunch of lines that look like this:
...
aufx mcmp appl - Apple: AUMultibandCompressor
aufx mrev appl - Apple: AUMatrixReverb
aufx nbeq appl - Apple: AUNBandEQ
aufx nsnd appl - Apple: AUNetSend
...
The first three fields in this output (before the -) are the type,
subtype and manufacturer of the instrument. Each of these three fields are
four characters long. Additionally, you'll need to figure out which key is used
for the preset data in aupreset files generated by the instrument.
These four parameters can be specified manually:
./fxp2aupreset.py --type aufx --subtype mcmp --manufacturer aapl --state_key vstdata <path to directory full of .fxp files>
or (and this is the recommended method) you can give fxp2aupreset an example
.aupreset file generated by the instrument, and it'll figure out the rest:
./fxp2aupreset.py --example <path to example .aupreset file> <path to directory full of .fxp files>
This software is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Original version by Colin Barry (colin@loomer.co.uk), based on aupreset to
fxp converter found here.