Apple's Mystery AU

Ted 3000 · Post by **Ted 3000** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:31 am

Help?

I have a handful of Apple's AU that were meant for garageband. They are terrible and processor intensive.

I can't get rid of them - where do they live on my Mac? Search turns up nothing, I browse to my plugin folder - nothing. Yes, I checked the Library on both my User and the generic Library on my hard drive....

Did apple make 10 of their AU invisible to everything but a host ap?

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:42 am

they are built into garageband
you can't delete them unless you delete garageband itself.

the best solution is to not use them.

tribalogical · Post by **tribalogical** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:48 am

I suspect they're probably bundled into the Garageband.app package somewhere..... (Steinberg does this for their "Cubase-only" plugins...)

ctrl-click or right click on garageband, and pick "Show Package Contents" from the contextual menu... then do a search in the Contents folder for the names you know..... maybe that will turn something up?

Might not want to delete them though.... it could actually break Garageband (one never knows).......!

peace,
tribalogical

tribalogical · Post by **tribalogical** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:54 am

yah, I confirmed it. They're built-ins...

AdamJay is right, probably can't delete them without deleting (or breaking) Garageband, and the best solution is to simply not use them....

peace,
tribalogical

kenn michael · Post by **kenn michael** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:57 am

they're actually built into OSX. they'll be there whether or not GarageBand is installed. if you don't use them, they won't use any system resources.

jeskola · Post by **jeskola** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:56 am

they are part of the core aduio suite in the OS -

by the way have you checked out the corevideo stuff you can do - its all developer, but the RSS stuff is blindin gfor visuals - ever seen massive attack live (the big black screen with red dots) ??? You can create very simialr stuff if you know where to look

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:10 am

jeskola wrote:they are part of the core aduio suite in the OS -

by the way have you checked out the corevideo stuff you can do - its all developer, but the RSS stuff is blindin gfor visuals - ever seen massive attack live (the big black screen with red dots) ??? You can create very simialr stuff if you know where to look

that massive attack screen was insane.
I'll never forget the end of their gig. It was also the end of their tour.
All hell broke loose on stage