So I'm buying a Mac Pro, but I'm not so excited to hear that Waves Diamond and Altiverb 5 (two plug-ins I use extensively) do not support Universal Binary for Intel Macs.

Can anyone suggest two awesome alternatives that will work for Intel Macs? For Waves, I mainly used their EQ (10-Parametric) and Compressors. Fo Altiverb 6 I obviously used reverb. This is seriously a deciding factor for me as a few other plug-ins also do not support Universal Binary (and I'm willing to let those slide), but I definately need a good alternative for EQ and Compression, as well as reverb.

Are you sure your Waves bundle won't work, have you contacted Waves? That's a lot of money to lose just because you're switching platforms. The plugins say they're both PC and Mac compatible.

EQ:

If you have the UAD platform, there are several good options for EQ. Cambridge, Pultec, Neve 88RS (which is a complete channel strip), Neve 1073 & 1081.

I know for a fact that Waves Q-series EQ's work on an Intel Mac.

Sonnox Oxford EQ is great as well.

Compression:

Again, I'll have to plug the UAD Compressors here. 1176LN and Fairchild 670 are outstanding. Also I know the Waves C1-series compressors work on Intel Macs.

Sonnox Oxford Dynamics is great.

Reverb:

If you are switching to Logic, then Space Designer is really good if you are looking for a convolution reverb. Waves TruVerb works on Intel Macs.

Otherwise, Sonnox Reverb is probably the best of the rest.

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Originally posted by Eric J EQ: If you have the UAD platform, there are several good options for EQ. Cambridge, Pultec, Neve 88RS (which is a complete channel strip), Neve 1073 & 1081. I know for a fact that Waves Q-series EQ's work on an Intel Mac. Sonnox Oxford EQ is great as well. Compression: Again, I'll have to plug the UAD Compressors here. 1176LN and Fairchild 670 are outstanding. Also I know the Waves C1-series compressors work on Intel Macs. Sonnox Oxford Dynamics is great. Reverb: If you are switching to Logic, then Space Designer is really good if you are looking for a convolution reverb. Waves TruVerb works on Intel Macs. Otherwise, Sonnox Reverb is probably the best of the rest.

Thats a lot of great help, thank you.

You should wait until the new mac pro comes out, with the i7 xeon processors! Hopefully right after/before macworld 2009.

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Originally posted by Feonix Thats a lot of great help, thank you.

I was just looking at that! Just worrying about conpatability with other plug-ins and synths.

free, kind of. 60 cents a piece

http://www.ddmf.eu/

and the sonalksis plugins are fire

Waves plugins working fine on my mac pro with the latest OS.