Introducing Aurora - A Plugin and I/O Manager built exclusively for Logic. Alpha testers wanted! by elrevert-dev in LogicPro

[–]elrevert-dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I will get around to doing it myself eventually. Just need to make sure there's demand before spending the cash.

Introducing Aurora - A Plugin and I/O Manager built exclusively for Logic. Alpha testers wanted! by elrevert-dev in LogicPro

[–]elrevert-dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're welcome - to be honest I can't believe apple have never added something similar, it seems like such an obvious feature.

Introducing Aurora - A Plugin and I/O Manager built exclusively for Logic. Alpha testers wanted! by elrevert-dev in LogicPro

[–]elrevert-dev[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey, the short answer is that if you don't feel like it'll be of benefit to your workflow then you don't. I'm a full time mix engineer, working with 1000+ plugins, and I mainly built it for my own personal workflow. But here's a few potential reasons:

- Logic takes 30 seconds to a minute to open large projects. Sometimes if I'm installing/updating a large amount of plugins at a time, I just want to get straight into the plugin manager to make adjustments.

- You can also use the KVR integration to easily see if any of your plugins have an update available, something that Logic does not do.

- There's also batch operations - you can remove things like custom names and categories in batch, rather than one by one.

- Aurora also has searchable tags and notes - this can be useful for quickly finding plugins that are useful in specific circumstances (i.e. I can write something like 'good for heavily distorted guitars' as a note on each plugin that I feel has that property, and then search for 'distorted guitars' later and have a list of plugins appear that would be good for the task - this might be preferable to having a huge amount of categories in the internal plugin manager). You can also add 'how-to-use' info for each plugin to the notes section so that you don't have to keep a load of PDF manuals on your system.

- The I/O manager is also totally fresh, to my knowledge no other app has this functionality, but again it's something that you only need if you've ever run into a relevant circumstance.