Made the switch to Mac

[BBQJOE]

Of course a whole mess of plugins don't work.

Is there a good grab bag of misc plugins for the mac somewhere?

I'm really missing stuff like density mkll, blockfish, and stuff like that.

[vitalker]

Blockfish is available for mac: http://www.digitalfishphones.com/mai...em=2&subItem=5
Maybe this one: https://vladgsound.wordpress.com/
http://www.tokyodawn.net/tokyo-dawn-labs/
https://www.xferrecords.com/freeware/
Some good js plugs: http://sonic.supermaailma.net/

[Matt Mayfield]

Originally Posted by vitalker

Blockfish is available for mac: http://www.digitalfishphones.com/mai...em=2&subItem=5
Maybe this one: https://vladgsound.wordpress.com/
http://www.tokyodawn.net/tokyo-dawn-labs/
https://www.xferrecords.com/freeware/
Some good js plugs: http://sonic.supermaailma.net/

I haven't checked the others, but unfortunately Blockfish was compiled for PowerPC and never updated to be compatible with modern (post-2006) Intel Macs. That was a bummer.

Even though OS X / macOS has a smoother and (in my experience) more reliable audio+MIDI system, and I prefer using OS X over Windows, there are definitely more free plugins available in VST format for Windows than there are in AudioUnits for Mac.

It's possible, though extremely technical and a huge pain, to run some Windows VSTs on Mac (or Linux) under Wine. I tried this on OSX many years ago and got a couple to work, but it wasn't worth the trouble compared to just finding new plugins.

Edit: One site I used to go on a lot to find new plugins was KVR Audio. At least as of 2011 or so when I was more actively looking for new plugins, they were good about sorting them based on free, paid, and OS compatibility.

[vitalker]

Originally Posted by Matt Mayfield

Edit: One site I used to go on a lot to find new plugins was KVR Audio. At least as of 2011 or so when I was more actively looking for new plugins, they were good about sorting them based on free, paid, and OS compatibility.

There are dozens of such sites. I'm on Windows, nevertheless I don't like plugins made with any development enviroments...

[serr]

Originally Posted by Matt Mayfield

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Even though OS X / macOS has a smoother and (in my experience) more reliable audio+MIDI system, and I prefer using OS X over Windows, there are definitely more free plugins available in VST format for Windows than there are in AudioUnits for Mac.

It's possible, though extremely technical and a huge pain, to run some Windows VSTs on Mac (or Linux) under Wine. I tried this on OSX many years ago and got a couple to work, but it wasn't worth the trouble compared to just finding new plugins.

Edit: One site I used to go on a lot to find new plugins was KVR Audio. At least as of 2011 or so when I was more actively looking for new plugins, they were good about sorting them based on free, paid, and OS compatibility.

I'm pretty sure there are more free VST format for OSX than AU format for OSX as well. I don't see any superiority of one over the other. (Just like both VST & DLL formats are usually fine in Windows.)

Paid plugins will have installers/versions for both OSX & Windows.
If it was a couple/few years ago and you just threw out the OSX installer and you can't find the emailed authorization code... call and whine.

Anyway...

A good rule of thumb is if a plugin is only ever written in VST format for Windows, it's probably not a very serious (or stable) piece of code. And there's almost certainly a better and more professionally written choice (still for free). There are an awful lot of "Hey, look at the cool GUI I made! It looks just like a real plugin!" offerings out there is what I'm saying. This appears to be more of a Windows phenomena than OSX.

That said, I know there will be a few exceptions. There always are. And someone will probably start listing them in response right now!

[BBQJOE]

Thanks for the replies everybody.

Believe it or don't, my first confuser was a TRS-80.
I never owned any, but almost got good at DOS.
My next purchase was an apple mac plus.

A half dozen PC's later, I threw my hands up!

What can possible be worse than needing to use your computer right away, and it tells you to sit tight while it worries about itself for ten minutes every other time you turn it on?
The final straw was when I was in the middle of something and it decided that it needed to update right there and then, and gave me no choice.

I now have this macbook and couldn't be happier!!!
What a great computer. I'm still learning, but AFAIC, MS can bite my shiny metal Azz!

[vanhaze]

Good 4 you !
Longtime Apple computer user here (almost 25 years) and loved/ love working on them every minute.