New to Mac... Freeware fx advice, please ?

[jean-mi]

Hello, trying to use Tracktion I on my Mc, but it's a bit hard to find freeware effects (good ones),i. e EQ, reverbs, COMP, Virtual amps...) especially when you come from the PC world. Any tip ? Thanks !

[djsubject]

Any tip ?

go back to pc

only joking, i am a pc only dood so i cant help much but say i know there are a few out there i have seen in passing (but no way as meny as windows has)

hopfuly this useless post will inspire someone to post somthing more helpfull

Subz

[Rusty Shackleford]

There's many available. Check out the smartelectronix stuff, the mda stuff, crystal, digitalfishphones.com... plenty of others too. A good resource is osxaudio.com.

[friteuse]

Agreed!

When I switched to Mac, I was happy for Ohmforce Fromage (Filter)
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/572.html

and Smartelectronix Ambience
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/707.html

but also mda, digitalfishphones, ...

you need VST or AU?
EDIT: Just awnsered myself, you use Tracktion, so you need VST

[kuniklo]

The recently released Luxonix multi-effect is pretty cool and very CPU friendly.

[mckenic]

...And remember if you have a way to use AUs (in a wave editor or whatever) the Apple ones are pretty OK... I the multiband comp!!!

Dave

[kuniklo]

...And remember if you have a way to use AUs (in a wave editor or whatever) the Apple ones are pretty OK... I the multiband comp!!!

Dave

Good point. The MatrixReverb sounds great and is very CPU-light. I'm guessing they did some serious SSE work on it.

[SleepyP]

the only shame here is you can't currently get an AU to VST wrapper, only VST to AU

[jean-mi]

Thank you everybody for all the useful or/and humorous comments. Actually I will stick to PC, but one of my friends is starting to learn computer-based music, and he only has a Mac, so your infos willhelp alot. Thanks again !