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]

I posted just the other day in the Audio Units thread about how satisfying it was, without Logic, to have a simple AU host in the form of Synthtest, an app that first opened up the Apple sound-font synth and AUs.

I did see your post, lutefisk, but the link to Synthtest in your original post was broken, so I couldn't find it. I've since tracked the little bugger down, but it was after I had found Rax. Synthtest is certainly not to be slighted--at *all*. It's quite a program too, and I've been enjoying it. Thanks for the pointer to it.

But now with Rax as well (which is much more 'consumer' oriented; SynthTest is aimed primarly at developers as a simple AU host), oh happy day.

I'm wid *you.* Tickles me no end to see these clever independent programs popping up.

BTW, I saw on "another" discussion board in a poll about the future of plug-ins that it was running something close to 90% for Audio Units. VST was hardly a blip on the screen. Apple may have tripped up and fallen onto something. Verrrrry interesting...

On a side note, thanks, LevonR, for posting to Version Tracker as well; I recognised your name there, and decided to give Rax a try.

Oh, please send all your thanks to the programmers! It'll give 'em a boost. Don't be squandering any on me.