Unify 2 DEMO

Unify 2 Hardware Requirements:

Requires Windows 7 – Latest OS or Mac OS X 10.13 – Latest OS  (Mac Binaries are universal for both Intel and Apple processor support).

On Windows VST3 included.

On Mac VST3 and AU included

Standalone included for both PC and Mac

At this time there is no AAX plug-in for Windows or Mac for Unify 2.

*32-Bit Plug-ins can be access with 3rd party applications (JBridge on the PC and 32 Lives on the Mac).

Download size: Mac: 350MB  / PC: 275MB (sizes are approximate)

File Delivery: Digital Download

Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers):

• Default Locations of PlugIns and Applications:

For Windows PC”s, the default plugin path is: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\ (unless you selected something else when running the installer) The application directory is: C:\Program Files\PlugInGuru\Unify2

For Mac the default path for the plugins is: Macintosh HD\Library\Audio\Plug-Ins and then either VST3 or Component folders. The Application is: Macintosh HD\Applications\PlugInguru\Unify2

• My Unify 2 Library isn”t working correctly

There might be some cases where the library doesn”t show up in the Library Directory of Unify 2. This is typically caused because the “Unify 2 Part 4 of 4 xxxx.guru” file was set up incorrectly by Skippy for a bit (Bad Skippy!) – but that is corrected now. You can re-download the current “Unify 2 Part 4 of 4 xxxx.guru” file and drag over the interface of Unify 2, say OK and it will install and libraries will appear as expected! Again, apologies!

• I see duplicates of some patches – is this normal?

Yes! This is perfectly normal. You will notice these duplicates are only BPM DRUM and BPM PERC Patches. That is because Unify 2 adds a new 3rd library called “Unify Metronome” that is automatically chosen when you open the Metronome to set it up. We decided to duplicate instead of move patches from the other 2 libraries to this Library. Otherwise the BPM DRUM and PERC patches would only be in the Metronome library and a lot of users might then miss these patches if they didn”t use the Metronome. Sorry if this confuses some of you, but we felt this was the better choice than moving the BPM DRUM and PERC patches into just the Metronome library.

• Do I need to keep the .guru files around?

No, you”re welcome to delete them after installing them into Unify 2. In fact, there MIGHT be a “bonus” folder of 2+ GB of data you can delete if the issue above with Libraries not showing up happened to you. Click “Settings” then select “Paths / Data” and on the “Main Data Folder” line, click the “Open…” button. This will show you the Unify folder that Unify 2 is using as home for all its content. If you see a “Unify 2 Part 4 of 4 xxx” Folder here, delete it! It is not needed by Unify 2 and is taking up a good chunk of HD space.

• How can I set the Image background color layer so it stays in effect?

When you adjust the solid color background layer (on the Play page, click the color wheel) including the Alpha slider that changes the opacity of the solid color, you can “LOCK” this into place by clicking the “Set as Default Color” button.

• Can I set the background image to my own photo?

Yes! There are a few rules to get this to work.

1) Each Library can have it”s own image. If you change libraries, the image used for 1 library isn”t used anywhere else. So, only 1 Image per library is the rule.

2) In each Library, usually there is an “Images” folder inside a folder named “Media”. That is where your image has to go. It needs to be a .jpg or .png file and we recommend a 16:9 aspect ratio (but Unify will auto attach to edges no matter how you set the aspect ratio.)

3) In the Media folder (but not in the Images folder, where you placed your image) is a simple text file you need to make named “Links.txt”. In that file you would have a line that says: “Default”    “Images/yourphotofilename.xxx”

This will tell Unify 2 to load this image when you change patches but again, only for this particular library. Just copy this Media folder to other libraries but be aware some libraries include custom images you might delete.

Here you see the organization of folders and were to put your image.

• Should I use VST2 or VST3 version of plug-ins?

In Unify 2, you can have “known” to the plug-in more than one format of the plug-in: VST2, VST3 and Audio Units can all be known and used even in the same Patch! In fact, many of our customers use Unify 2 to load older favorite VST2 plug-ins into Logic Pro – so they”re using the Audio Unit version of Unify 2 to load VST2 plug-ins into Logic Pro which CAN”T use ANY VST plug-in.

As of 2025, things have changed since we released Unify V1 in 2020. VST3 is now the #1 choice. . For many years now developers can”t even aquire a license to make a plug-in in the VST2 format. Many of our libraries did use VST2 and in 2020 we considered it our #1 choice. However, now some companies (Like U-He and others) have stopped including VST2 plug-ins with their installers – they used to include VST2 versions of their plug-ins, and now they don”t.

Some of our Unified libraries are made for VST2 format and will need to be re-created with the VST3 version. We”ll update these libraries to VST3 soon but it takes time (we have to save each patch one at a time to make these free Libraries).

The advantages of VST3 for use in Unify 2 are many. Most notably that patches made and saved in the VST3 format can be shared between Mac and PC computers with no conversion process necessary. Audio Units are only available on Apple computers and Steinberg is actively killing VST2.

TLDR: VST3 would be our recommendation.