Rax!, Wanna' play with Apple's Units? Options

[Levon River]

I'm busy playing with a marvelous little program I just discovered on VersionTracker for OS X called "Rax." It's a virtual rack for Audio Units! It provides on-screen controls for Apple's included AUs (reverb, delay, etc.), uses any MIDI source available to your system, and even allows you to load SoundFonts! Right now I have a Banjo SoundFont converted from an Akai disk loaded, drenched in Apple's reverb and digital delay, controlling it all with muMIDI. What a hoot.

May be the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Great little program. Get it and play!

[Levon River]

this program is inspiring:

Ain't it, though!

i should finish reading the os x system books and core audio books and get to work on some instruments to stick in this puppy.

Do *that*.

levon, did you try using rax with airsynth?

Not yet; having too much fun loading Soundfonts. Incredible: it's like this thing is a SoundFont player just on a complete "Oh, by the way..." basis. Really quite a piece of work.

it feels like we are on the brink of a giant wave of audiounits created by independent (noncorporate) developers.

We can sure hope. Didn't you finish those books yet?

i wonder what type of sequencing environments will be coded specifically for coreaudio which could diversify the os X audio software pool

I say "revolution...now!" I personally think all the Big Boys on The Block have gotten too big for their britches--all of 'em. I'd give my money *any* day to an enterprising independent coder out to slay the giants, and let the "Let them eat cake" crowd (I don't want to mention any names, but their initials are Steinberg, Logic, ProTools, and Mark of the Unicorn) eat their damned dongles.

Of course, I also wound up in the Assistant Principal's office a lot.