Theia installation notes / system specific info and requirements:

Mac:

The installer will copy the ‘standalone’ application to the Applications folder.

The VST3 and AU plugins will be copied to the /Library/Audio/Plugins area.

Factory patches are copied to: /Users/Shared/Wavesequencer_Theia/Patches/FactoryPatches/

Note, that currently, on Mac silicon, the AU and standalone builds can take advantage of ‘audio workgroup’ thread registration, and will perform better than the VST3 version in terms of multi-threaded scheduling and thread prioritization - this is a current limitation of the VST3 API wrapper within the audio API used for Theia and Hyperion development.

So, for Mac silicon, we recommend to use the AU and Standalone builds preferably over the VST3 version -which is provided for Intel CPUs and compatibility with DAWs that don’t support the AU plugin version.

Windows:

The installer will copy the standalone application to: C:\Program Files\Wave sequencer

The VST3 will be copied to: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3

Factory patches are copied to /"YourUserDirectory"/Documents/Wavesequencer_Theia/Patches/FactoryPatches/

(NOTE - a current known issue is that the installer assumes you are logged in with the main/admin account on your machine - and so if you are using a non-admin account for your music production, the patch files currently are copied over to the admin account folder after entering the requested permission/password)

The default application/plugin install path option is provided at first install, to change the path, un-install first before upgrade.

System requirements / Specifications:

  • Mac 0SX 10.11 + - 64 bit (x86 and Apple Silicon) - VST3/AU/Standalone (code-signed/notarized/registered Apple developer).

  • Windows 10 + - 64 bit - VST3/Standalone (code-signed/registered Windows developer).

  • Recommended: 2018+ 4 or more core processor - minimum 8GB RAM (fully multi-core/multi-threaded voice processing - more cores the better).

  • Audio: Dedicated low latency audio interface highly recommended - 48KHz, 256 samples buffer size recommended (64 Samples is the minimum recommended buffer size).

  • Storage requirements: Around 200 Mb disk space for installation, typically between 100Mb and 500Mb runtime RAM per instance depending on loaded patch complexity

  • VST3 distribution license approved by Steinberg.

  • See EULA for Ts&Cs. (available during installation and in the info page of the UI)