Toontrack Superior Drummer 3: plugin on server says, "Audio engine inactive. Check your audio device"

[johndavidmiller]

Hiya - new audiogridder here. All Mac, Steinberg Cubase Pro 13. First of all, thank you Andreas!

I've used distributed plugin servers in the past, e.g., Waves Grid Server, but stopped once my computers got faster, but went looking for a solution when my mobile recording setup, a 2019 MacBook Pro, started crapping out - and I have plugins that restrict runtime licenses to 2 computers, when I need 3 across my recording setups. The latter is a problem in that I have Superior Drummer 3 installed on my main DAW (Mac Studio M1 Ultra) and my drum room machine (intel iMac), and Toontrack only allows 2 machines. So, I've been having to bounce drums before recording guitars on the MBP; I'm hoping AG fixes that.

However, having installed the server & plugin my main DAW (mac studio) and plugin on the MBP, and choosing SD3 via AG server, I get no audio, and the GUI on the server has an error in the lower right, "Audio engine inactive. Check your audio device". Any ideas? Note that in my Cubase Project I use multiple audio outputs, with different outputs for kick, snare, toms, etc. Perhaps AG doesn't support that yet?

thanks in advance!