Apple Audio Unit Effects for use in your DAW - any good?
- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 883 posts since 4 Jul, 2012 from Blue Crest, Eastern Europe
After installing Garage Band I have a lot of audio unit effects that I can also use in my DAW (Ableton Live).
What I would like to know is whether they are any good. After my days working with Logic (which had great effects), I have a hunch that these effects are equal if not better to those that come with Live.
What's your opinion?
What I would like to know is whether they are any good. After my days working with Logic (which had great effects), I have a hunch that these effects are equal if not better to those that come with Live.
What's your opinion?
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- KVRAF
- 2163 posts since 17 Jan, 2008
the reverb is pretty decent actually. haven't opened any of the others.
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- KVRAF
- 2746 posts since 13 Feb, 2012 from Amsterdam
Yeah, I think Airwindows is good... but they're not what OP meant. Apple has a few AU's of their own, they ship with every copy of OS X. But for the record, they're not the same as the Logic ones! I'm not sure, but I think they were already in OS X before Apple acquired Emagic.arkmabat wrote:The air window ones. Dont have a link... Nor a Mac...
Whether they're good... Don't know, hardly ever use them. The guy from Kush (forgot his name) recommended the compressor if I'm not mistaken.
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- KVRAF
- 16369 posts since 24 May, 2009 from A galaxy, far far away
the apple au matrix reverb gets a lot of loveBDeep wrote:Yeah, I think Airwindows is good... but they're not what OP meant. Apple has a few AU's of their own, they ship with every copy of OS X. But for the record, they're not the same as the Logic ones! I'm not sure, but I think they were already in OS X before Apple acquired Emagic.arkmabat wrote:The air window ones. Dont have a link... Nor a Mac...
Whether they're good... Don't know, hardly ever use them. The guy from Kush (forgot his name) recommended the compressor if I'm not mistaken.
- KVRAF
- 35294 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
I don't think Garageband adds anything extra though, these ship with OS-X itself.
- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 883 posts since 4 Jul, 2012 from Blue Crest, Eastern Europe
Ah, yes it's true. I misread a post on another forum thinking these come with GarageBand.aMUSEd wrote:I don't think Garageband adds anything extra though, these ship with OS-X itself.
Pretty impressive to have i.e. multiband compressor shipped with your OS.
Nevertheless I'm still wondering whether to I can use these FX in my work instead of Live's native FX...
This Matrix Reverb sounds good to my ears. Slightly better than Live's reverb.
- KVRAF
- 4278 posts since 6 Nov, 2009
BDeep wrote:Yeah, I think Airwindows is good... but they're not what OP meant. Apple has a few AU's of their own, they ship with every copy of OS X. But for the record, they're not the same as the Logic ones! I'm not sure, but I think they were already in OS X before Apple acquired Emagic.arkmabat wrote:The air window ones. Dont have a link... Nor a Mac...
Whether they're good... Don't know, hardly ever use them. The guy from Kush (forgot his name) recommended the compressor if I'm not mistaken.
Are they free? The ones I'm thinking of are freeware. I think I got the name wrong. They all have guis that look like this:
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- KVRAF
- 2746 posts since 13 Feb, 2012 from Amsterdam
Air Windows, yeah, they all look like that! It's because they're GUI-less, so they take the standard OS X GUI elements so to speak. A lot of them are free, but the premium models are paid (all $50).
The website is http://www.airwindows.com , at a glance, 86 freeware and 36 paid. Quality seems to be very good, but I haven't tested any of the paid models to be honest. But on GS they are well thought of.
The website is http://www.airwindows.com , at a glance, 86 freeware and 36 paid. Quality seems to be very good, but I haven't tested any of the paid models to be honest. But on GS they are well thought of.
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- KVRist
- 186 posts since 31 Jul, 2013
AuDynamics processor is really great--simple to use, excellent graphic interface, very grabby--just a great comp. I know it's standard in Logic, not sure about Garageband.
- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 883 posts since 4 Jul, 2012 from Blue Crest, Eastern Europe
I see it in the list of Apple AUs. It's included with the OS so it will show up in any DAW that works with AU.momalle3 wrote:AuDynamics processor is really great--simple to use, excellent graphic interface, very grabby--just a great comp. I know it's standard in Logic, not sure about Garageband.