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Can we have an official word on Ableton support for LIVE Audio Units in Mac OS X?

I would love to start making Audio units of my own, and it is my understanding that all the tools to create them are included with OS X for free.

ie Project Builder and a downloadable SDK for AU's.

I've had a bit of a play with project builder and the sample AU's. If i had Logic, could i just use them in that?

Is there any free host for these plug-ins??

Is anybody out there making their own plugins for OS X/ LIVE?

cheers,

-K

hey songcarver.. from what i heard.. theres gonna be a vst program to use the audiounits.. forgot where i saw it... but i remembered it was being developed... or was it a audiounit to use vst's...aghh cant remember <G>

hopefully both..

Neil

The v2.0 AudioUnits development kit includes wrapper code to migrate VST plug-ins to the AudioUnits API. You bring your VST code into an AU project and recompile, from what I see so far.

What I would like to know is if the code behind the AudioUnits API makes use of Altivec. I know that native AU "proof of concept" plug-ins have already been optimized, but I don't know if the code was optimized manually.

If the optimization is part of the API, this would give two things for Ableton to think about:

-- migrating to AudioUnits follows Apple's plug-in standard, could help with complementing Logic and other music applications

-- Ableton's developers could make use of performance-enhanced API without having to learn the code behind optimization

The first point would mean that Ableton plug-ins could work across audio applications throughout the Apple platform, and more importantly, vice versa. This adds value to Live.

The second point could mean faster, easier development of really fast DSP plug-ins (reverb, chorus, delay, etc.). This also adds value to Live.

So Ableton gang, if you're reading, please tell us if you're evaluating this!