Scenario wrote:I just installed 15.2 hoping to get past this and got faced with the same train wreck. You guys are correct, those plug-ins were probably from Logic Pro X on my iMac Pro. But there should be a way to get past all of this to try out Resolve.
I can guarantee they weren't from Logic Pro either unless you bought Logic from some source other than Apple; they must have come bundled with something else you bought in the last couple of years. I have Logic and no third-party plugins were installed with it. Regardless, there is indeed a way to stop this, it just involves finding those plugins in the Finder and deleting them.
When it starts up, Resolve dutifully scans your computer and attempts to load all VST and AU plugins that it finds on your system. That's a feature, not a bug: it means if you've intentionally installed any audio plugins, most of them will be available for use in Fairlight. So to fix the problem, all you need to do is remove the offending plugins from your system. That means you have to find them first.
Try this: in the finder (click on your desktop), hit shift-command-C to open your Computer folder. Now double-click on the icon for Macintosh HD or whatever you called your main hard disk/ssd drive. Look for a folder called Library, and within the Library folder look for a folder called Audio. You should see a few subfolders, one of which should be called Plug-Ins. See if the plugins are there; if so you can delete them (be sure you're deleting only the plugins you don't want; I don't know the names of all of the Creative FX Collection plugins but most if not all of them have names that start with AIR, such as AIRReverb. They might be in the VST or VST3 subfolder, check each folder to see if you can find them.
It's important that you open the Library folder that appears when you open your Macintosh HD folder. If you just type shift-command-L from the finder you'll open the user Library folder, which likely won't contain these plugins.
If that doesn't work, look in the library to see if Creative FX Collection Plus has its own library folder and get rid of that. Sometimes plugins are located in the Application Support folder. Or use the search box in the finder to search for "AIRReverb" and see if that locates them.
If none of that works, contact the company that sells these plugins:
https://www.airmusictech.com/support and ask them how to remove them from your system.
Resolve 18 Studio, Mac Pro 3.0 GHz 8-core, 32 gigs RAM, dual AMD D700 GPU.
Audio I/O: Sound Devices USBPre-2