Comments on: Rax Rescued: Mac Virtual Instrument Rack Finds a New Home

By: Create Digital Music » Wormhole2: Tool Routes Audio Over Networks, Now Open Source

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:21:26 +0000

[...] plasq, the wonderful people who brought us Skitch and Comic Life, have been giving their audio tools new lives rather than orphaning them. We’ve already seen plasq’s live performance-savvy instrument and effects host Rax show up as an Audiofile Engineering product, and AE in turn recently promised in comments that great things were coming for Rax. [...]

By: Create Digital Music » Audiofile Engineering: Site and Application Updates from Mac Audio Developer

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:52:09 +0000

[...] You may also recall that Audiofile Engineering recently rescued the excellent instrument and effect host, Rax – formerly developed by our friends at plasq. It is clear that Apple borrowed heavily from Rax’s design choices and intentions with their new MainStage application (bundled with Logic 8) but with its impressive features, custom interfaces for audio units, cool visualizer support, and active development, Rax is still the application to beat in this domain. [...]

By: Matthew Foust

Matthew Foust — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:01:42 +0000

MainStage put an end to Rax? We don’t think so. Rax 3 is in the works and should be a worthy competitor to MainStage. Plus, it’s significantly cheaper! Stay tuned…

By: primusluta

primusluta — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:19:41 +0000

Oh I forgot to mention, the AE guys are trying to rescue Muslomo as well. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

By: primusluta

primusluta — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:18:30 +0000

MainStage has potential, but not in its current state other than the VI’s it’s bundled with. Plus those guys over at Audiofile Engineering are quicker than Apple with the updates. Discussion has already started on Rax 3. I’m pretty sure the current version is just where Plasq left off. If you want certain features in Rax get over to that AE forum and start asking for them. There is a very good chance you’ll get it.

And Chris I highly suggest you get WE. Version 1.3 is right around the corner and packed with features we’ll love.

By: Dissolver

Dissolver — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:53:13 +0000

Today’s release of MainStage as part of Logic Studio seems to be, at the very least, a worthy competitor. It will more probably put an end to RAX. I’m sorry to say that, but its probably true.

By: deb

deb — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:07:10 +0000

oh excellent!
i like AULab but i have just started working with it and it feels a bit clunky.
this is great news, and just in time for nuit blanche here in toronto!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:36:25 +0000

How can a traditional Logic user like myself integrate this into my music? I don’t think I need it but I feel like I should. I have used Wave Editor as a demo and really liked it’s Photoshop style application to sound. I continue to use an aging version of Peak and love it but I think perhaps a change would do some good. Hows the learning curve to get up to full edit speed?

By: n0d3.org » Blog Archive » Rax finds a home

n0d3.org » Blog Archive » Rax finds a home — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:26:07 +0000

[...] But, being much beloved, Rax found a new home. A home which you can read about in the latest installment of N0D3 Outbound: Rax Finds a Home. [...]

By: gahlord

gahlord — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:07:50 +0000

You have no idea how happy it makes me to hear that Rax has a home.

Fastest, easiest (if you’ve ever set up a hardware rack anyway), most bombproof way to make some music.

I love Comic Life too but I have to admit that I was starting to secretly scorn it, seeing what happened to Rax.

Now what about Musolomo and Wormhole…?