KVR Audio

cocoazenith · Post by **cocoazenith** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 11:21 am

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?

michael2 · Post by **michael2** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 4:37 pm

the reverb is pretty decent actually. haven't opened any of the others.

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 4:41 pm

The air window ones. Dont have a link... Nor a Mac...

BDeep · Post by **BDeep** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 5:48 pm

arkmabat wrote:The air window ones. Dont have a link... Nor a Mac...

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.
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.

el-bo (formerly ebow) · Sun Sep 21, 2014 5:56 pm

BDeep wrote:
arkmabat wrote:The air window ones. Dont have a link... Nor a Mac...
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.
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.

the apple au matrix reverb gets a lot of love

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 6:02 pm

I don't think Garageband adds anything extra though, these ship with OS-X itself.

cocoazenith · Post by **cocoazenith** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 6:21 pm

aMUSEd wrote:I don't think Garageband adds anything extra though, these ship with OS-X itself.

Ah, yes it's true. I misread a post on another forum thinking these come with GarageBand.
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.

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 6:40 pm

BDeep wrote:
arkmabat wrote:The air window ones. Dont have a link... Nor a Mac...
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.
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:

BDeep · Post by **BDeep** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 7:43 pm

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.

momalle3 · Post by **momalle3** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:11 pm

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.

cocoazenith · Post by **cocoazenith** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:45 pm

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.

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 · Post by **momalle3** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:52 pm

good--check it out. it's no nonsense, extremely easy to use, with a very effective gui

c_bomb · Post by **c_bomb** » Wed Sep 24, 2014 3:19 am

AU Pitch is pretty good, tone and smoothness settings and CPU saving pitch shifting quality modes.

Apple Audio Unit Effects for use in your DAW - any good?