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Destroy FX Audio Units
On this web page, you'll find provisional/experimental Audio Unit versions of some of our effect plugins. Audio Units are the new native plugin standard for Mac OS X. Just like we had VST, MAS, RTAS, Premiere, AudioSuite, and all those in Mac OS 8 and 9, we now have Audio Unit in Mac OS X. They require Mac OS X version 10.3.9 (Panther) or higher. They are all compiled as "universal binaries", which means that they run natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.
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While we work on porting our effects collection to this new format, we want to share what we've done with you. When the AU ports are totally finished, we'll add them to our main web page. We will be update these now and then, so check back occasionally. The file archives are dated so that you can tell when we've put up a newer version of something. Note that not all of the documentation included with these downloads has been updated since we started making AU versions, so some of the info might not be relevant to the AU versions (or might be wrong). Since these are kind of test versions, please contact us if you encounter any problems.
Currently the following Audio Unit host applications are available:
Logic (version 5.4 or higher)
Spark (version 2.8 or higher)
Metro (version 5.8 or higher)
Rax
SynthTest
Final Cut Pro (version 4.0 or higher)
Final Cut Express (version 2.0 or higher)
Soundtrack
SONASPHERE
AudioXplorer
Ouroboros
Audio Hijack Pro
Melodyne (version 2.0 or higher)
Peak (version 4.0 or higher)
DSP-Quattro (version 1.2 or higher)
Digital Performer (version 4.1 or higher)
Numerology (version 1.2 or higher)
Intuem (version 2.0.1 or higher)
GarageBand
Sample Manager
Plogue Bidule
Amadeus II (version 3.7.2 or higher)
Ableton Live (version 4.0 or higher)
WaveBurner
Critters (version 2.0 or higher)
SonicBirth
AU Lab
Wave Editor
Sound Studio (version 3.0 or higher)
Impromptu
Audacity (version 1.3 or higher)
XO Wave
djay
soundBlade
Toast (version 8.0 or higher)
TwistedWave
AudioCodex
WireTap Studio
Ardour (version 2.2 or higher)
Studio One
AudioMulch (version 2.1 or higher)
Audiohive
flexible i/o processing
One of the big improvements of AU over VST is that now a single plugin can support any number of input/output processing configurations. Previously with VST, most folks would write stereo effects with a kind of fake mono mode (basically feeding both inputs with the same signal and then outputting stereo), which is the best that VST can do. The problem with this is that (a) you get stereo output when you wanted mono output and (b) you use twice as much CPU as necessary because you are still processing 2 channels of audio, when you really only wanted to process a single channel. The other solution was to supply separate plugins for each i/o configuration, which is what we've done, but definitely also not ideal. With AU, though, a single effect can handle any number of mismatched or same-number i/o pair configurations (and mono processing will be real mono-processing, etc.). With only a few exceptions, all of our plugins in Audio Unit form support processing any number of channels, including well beyond stereo (do you need a 4,269-in/4,269-out version of Scrubby? you got it!).
MIDI
All of the MIDI features in our plugins are implemented in the AU versions. Hosts that support sending MIDI to effects include Rax, Logic, Metro, Digital Performer, Ableton Live, Spark, Peak, Numerology, Plogue Bidule, and SonicBirth (see details).
settings
You might wonder about compatibility between old settings that you might have made with VST versions of our plugins and the new AU verisons. It's possible to make Audio Units support VST settings. We are doing that when possible, but in most cases it's not. For VST plugins that let the host software manage settings saving/restoring (this goes for all of our "Extras" plugins), it's not possible to make those settings compatible with the AU versions (this has to do with shortcomings and limitations of VST's parameters system). For VST plugins that we provided in separate mono and stereo versions, we can't make the settings compatible because we needed to use two separate ID codes for each plugin, even thought they were the same effect, and AU versions need to match to just one code (and since AU doesn't have the same limitations and shortcomings that VST has with respect to input/output configurations, we of course won't be making separate mono and stereo AU versions). In other cases (but that doesn't leave very many), compatibility is possible. That includes Transverb, Geometer, Skidder, and Scrubby (although with Scrubby and Skidder, Sophia took this opportunity to make some substantial changes that make backwards compatibility more difficult and too much of a nuisance to be bothered with). For the mono/stereo plugins (Buffer Override and Rez Synth), what we will do is offer only stereo VST versions from now on (with new ID codes), and settings made with those new VST versions will be compatible with the AU versions.
installation
You can find installation instructions in our FAQ.
source code
Check out our source code page.
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