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Mac Plugins?

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:28 pm
by WesDavis
Say dudes, I've been browsing the forums looking for some free reverb action to use with Audacity on a Mac, and I am not coming up with a damn thing. I looked for a long time last night too, on Google, and I kept hearing about Freeverb for macs but being completely unable to find an actual link to the mac version of it. Does anyone have it?

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:08 pm
by boltoph
http://destroyfx.smartelectronix.com/audiounits.html

Scroll down, and there ya go. Audacity supports AU plugins (.component) files so yer good to go, or should be, at least.

A bunch of other good plugins there, too.

Here's the ultimate free plugin search page where you can search on just AU, or just OSX VST, etc.

http://www.kvraudio.com/get.php

Just click on the "effects" link next to "Audio Units". Or I think you can also use VST on OSX platform, Audacity supports that too, I think...not totally sure though.

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:52 pm
by WesDavis
I think I must be stupid, because I dropped some AU files into the plugins folder in Audacity, and it's not showing them under effects.

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:42 pm
by boltoph
Ah you have to upgrade man!

Upgrade to the latest version of Audacity (1.3):
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/downloa ... -1.3-f.php

Also on Mac OS X, Audacity now supports Audio Unit plug-ins.

You drop the components folders or files into your OS HD --> Library --> Audio --> Plug-Ins --> Components folder, Audacity picks them up.

You can still use VST with Audacity too, with this tool. Check out the VST / OSX search on that KVR audio link I posted above, tons of free VST plugins, tons of free AUs, and you can browse the expensive ones too.

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:09 pm
by WesDavis
Sweet, thanks man, I'll try it out.

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:24 am
by Smalltown Mike
I also like the LFX-1310. It's multi-effects—reverb, compression, eq, delay, filters, distortion, etc. And it's free, of course.