Re: [coreaudio] Re: Emagic purchase
Re: [coreaudio] Re: Emagic purchase
- Subject: Re: [coreaudio] Re: Emagic purchase
- From: robert <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:10:44 +0200
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
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They'll also probably be building up a large arsenal of free AudioUnits,
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taking away a lot of the consumer (and possibly pro) level plug-in market
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on the Mac platform.
I wonder if Apple could, by flooding the market with (free or not)
AudioUnits, do much harm to the huge VST plugin scene out there. I think
VST still has many more advantages, the most important one (IMO) being
platform independence.
Removing VST support from Logic in favor of AudioUnits would be a Very Bad
Thing :)
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I will continue following my current software and business plans for now,
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due to the time invested but I will now be considering switching to Linux
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and possibly Windows in the future.
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...
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The CoreAudio APIs and OS X are great but no matter how much I modify
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my software - whether moving to a synthesis application, advanced audio
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modelling, professional plug-ins, or something completely original - I'll
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always be waiting to hear another announcement about new Apple audio
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software, waiting for whatever direction I pursue to be killed by a new
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Apple product.
Moving to another platform won't be changing this, I reckon; there can
always be other companies moving into your turf.
Granted, if you choose to start developing for Linux, you might have a
chance at being one of the first doing professional audio for that OS, but
expect much hassle. Not only are you not getting great API's like CoreAudio
and CoreMIDI, but you're also gonna be faced with questions like "What
distributions do I want to support?". Also, how many audio professionals
want to be learning how to use Linux? And, an important question: what
professional audio hardware is supported by Linux?
robert
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