Amadeus Pro ships with a number of sound effects covering most needs, but its capabilities can be greatly extended by the addition of third-party effects. Amadeus Pro supports effects in both Steinberg’s VST and Apple’s Audio Unit format. However, Audio Units are preferred over VST effects. The support for VST effects is frozen at the current state whereas Audio Unit support is expected to improve in future versions of Amadeus Pro.
Several Audio Units are shipped by Apple with Mac OS X and should
show up in the Audio Units submenu without having to take any action.
Installing a third-party effect is as simple as dragging the
corresponding file into the appropriate subfolder (Components
for Audio Units and VST for VST effects) of your
Library/Audio/Plug-Ins
folder. A collection of
third-party Audio Units can be downloaded here.
In order to apply a sound effect to a portion of a sound, select this portion first and then select the desired sound effect. In order to apply an effect to the whole track, you can either leave its selection empty or select the whole track with the Select All function from the Edit menu.
The remainder of this subsection is devoted to the description of the content of the Effects menu. The description of the Interpolate and Denoising items is however postponed to Section 8.
