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Filed under: Garageband, Software Effects & Audio Processors
Maxim Digital Audio (MDA) has a collection of free Audio Unit plug-ins that can be used in Garageband, Logic and other apps that support AU’s. They’ve been available for a while, but we hadn’t highlighted them here yet and they are definitely worth checking out.
The plug-ins are Mac versions of plug-ins that are also available in VST format.
The free AU plug-ins include:
- Combo – Amp & speaker simulator
- Degrade – Sample quality reduction
- Detune – Simple up/down pitch shifting thickener
- DubDelay – Delay with feedback saturation and time/pitch modulation
- Dynamics – Compressor / Limiter / Gate
- Leslie – Rotary speaker simulator
- Re-Psycho! – Drum loop pitch changer
- RingMod – Simple ring modulator
- RoundPan – 3D panner
- Shepard – Continuously rising/falling tone generator
- Talkbox – High resolution vocoder
- TestTone – Signal generator with pink and white noise, 1/3 octaves and sweeps
- Tracker – Pitch tracking oscillator, or pitch tracking EQ
We especially like Detune, which can create effects ranging from the mild chorus to bizarro detuning and tracker, which can be used to turn audio files into strange synth melodies.
Unfortunately, Talkbox opens in Garageband, but doesn’t work.
Here’s how you can install the plugins.
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Tags: AU, Garageband, Logic, Macintosh, MDA
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I’m having some trouble opening the plugins in Garageband. The download page says to put it into the plug-ins etc folders but garage band doesn’t come with those from what I can see.
I have only recently started using garageband and I am wondering how do I import AU plugins to garageband. I would be grateful if you could help me out with this situation. Thank you very much.
John
Thomas & John
For au plugins that don’t come with installer, you copy them to this folder:
Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components
Then open up Garageband and check them out!
Hi synthhead. I found my way to this page because I’ve downloaded daHornet and it won’t, just will not, install. The .components file is in the right place but GB never picks it up. Can you offer any suggestions? Thanks.
whisperycat – looks like the problem is with daHornet – not you.
I gave this a try and had the same exact problem.
Synthhead, thanks for coming back with an answer so quickly!
i’ve put these in the components folder in the library. how do you access them using garageband?
nevermind i got it
i can’t figure out how to access them.
nigel –
Once you’ve got them installed, go to the instrument you want to put the effect on, and click on that instrument and then select Track – Show Track Info.
In the track info pane, open up Details and then click on an open effects slot. Scroll down to the Audio Units Effects, and the free plugins should show up.
Let me know if that doesn’t solve your problem!
Synthhead thanks! That got me up and running using Orca.
Dragged the package to above mentioned folder, nothing happens. Cannot see any plugins in my list…checked if i used the right folder etc…i just dont understand…
Knobexploit – make sure you put the component to Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components.
Then go to the instrument you want to put the effect on, and click on that instrument and then select Track – Show Track Info.
In the track info pane, open up Details and then click on an open effects slot. Scroll down to the Audio Units Effects, and the free plugins should show up.
I did put them in the designated folder lib/Audio/plug/comp
Bu they just dont show in my Garageband FX list when i pull it down…
All there is to see is the standard Garageband FX nothing more..
Whats wrong???
same thing happens to me too
i think these are in compatible
i figured it out everyone! i had the same problem! after i restarted by Mac and open Garage Band again they were there!
Did a restart, checkd if the file was still in my components folder and still no FX…grmpfff
knobexploit – you may want to try contacting the MDA people. It could be that your Mac is not compatible with the current version of the effects.
Good luck with this!
knobexploit – which ‘effects’ are you pulling down?
If you’re looking at the one in the top rh side of the window, that’s not it (that’s where I thought they went)
You have to go to detail, located in the lower rh side where there’s several pull=downs, including the standard compressor, gate, echo, and reverb. The plug-ins you’ve added will appear beneath the standard GarageBand plug-ins but you’ll have to scroll down in the pull-down to see them.
P.S. that might be as clear as I thought…
If you set the instrument effects (top rh side) to No Effect, each user selectable pull-down in the lower rh side will read None.
Where each one of those “None” entries appears, you should find the list I’m referring to (in the above post) when you click on any one of them.
I’m having the same problem. I’ve tried restarting and everything and I can’t get any AU plugins to show up in GB (MDA and others).
Are they not compatible with GB 8?
Any insight would help, I’ve got some tracks I need to dub out!!!
Hey guys!
I am wondering if there is a similar thing that you can get in cubase for logic called a chopper.
Or is there a part of logic 8 that can do this??
Any help would be fantastic!!
Matt
I have a simple but baffling question for me – How do I delete a song from Garageband `08 ?
I have tried all the methods I know of to delete… even importing into iTunes in hopes that the file would leave my project list… but nothing… I know I’m old school, but this is ridiculous not being able to take the garbage out of the garage – YIKES!
James – just select your hard drive from the finder and browse it. You’ll see a Garageband folder with your tracks in it. You can delete them from there.
Thanks Sythhead!
After A while I did figure that out on my own, but I do appreciate your tip
be sure to download the AU format. Its there if you scroll down further in the download page. Unzip it and you'll see the 'component' file he's talking about.
you probably downloaded the wrong file (VST). scroll down a little bit further on the download page to the file AU. Then you get the proper file with the right names as mentioned. It realy works I just did it.
succes!
it took me around 1 hour to get the plug in to get going , but i think the trick was to leave it in the folder then shut everything down & re start!!!!!
Hi Guys –
In logic, the plugings were located here:
On a track, open up 'Mixer', click and hold on one of the effect boxes underneath and EQ box, scroll down to Audio Units, then 'mda' – they are hiding in there!
i have the effects loaded up, but i cant here the talk box through my headphones when i speak through my microphone, just my voice with no effect???
my download didnt come with a component file…