Best Mac VST compression

[Craig McW]

Hey everyone, as the thread topic suggests I'm looking for a good MAC compression VST to use in cubase.

MAC stuff is hard to come by illegally so price will be a factor, but if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears.

:)

[jesus]

get this bad boy and the eq and youll be laughing . http://www.sonalksis.com/index.php?section_id=315 £150

[Craig McW]

Geez it looks good dunnit...

Fundage probs though. at 400 US for the bundle, it equates to about 650-700 AUD (yes I'm an aussie)..... and to afford that I'll have to wait a loooooooong time.....

[machina]

the waves renaissance compressor is pretty good from memory, but i have to admit it's been a few years since i've used it... i'm a big advocate of hardware compression these days...

http://www.waves.com/content.asp?id=16 (about 1/3 of the way down)

machina

[Craig McW]

thanks Machina. I'll be looking at hardware compression when I've paid off my laptop, until then I need to get by as best I can....

[Craig McW]

I'm thanking the lord right now.... a friend gave me a stack of native intruments this week, including waves, spektral Delay, Absynth, Reaktor and Battery.

I could cry.

[g]

is there a reason you're looking for VST in particular, as opposed to AU?

[Craig McW]

By AU you mean analogue? Forgive my ignorance, I've just never heard of AU before.....

[mattboyslim]

By AU you mean analogue? Forgive my ignorance, I've just never heard of AU before.....no AU is audio instrument. so rather than plugging in to a program it can act as a stand alone piece of kit if you get what i mean

[mattboyslim]

sorry, audio unit, not audio instrument

[g]

erm, no.

Audio Units are mac platform plug-ins. they are analogous to VST and can be instruments or efx. but they are plug-ins either way, for OS X only.

[Craig McW]

Gotcha. Thanks g, will look into AU's to see the difference and/or benefit.

[nova]

im on logic express 6 and i find that ive gotta use audio units with logic express 6.

[Craig McW]

It's just all so expensive.....

[g]

osxaudio.com

there's tons of free AU plugs/instruments out there, just like there are free VSTs.