Re: Idle processing
Re: Idle processing
- Subject: Re: Idle processing
- From: Robert Grant <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:13:36 -0500
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 09:44 AM, Glenn Olander wrote:
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 05:49 AM, Marc Poirier wrote:
the OS knows better than the host about how busy
the system is.
Very well put :-).
Relying on the OS to fill out the set of services required by a plugin
(at least compared to VST) seems to imply that AU is not intended to
become cross platform?
I think that's a given - this is one the OS X exclusive features.
I haven't seen much discussion here about the number of audio units.
The SDK has been out for 6 months now, but you can count the number of
audio units on your hands and feet. Is anyone surprised that so few
(or so many) have appeared? I believe VST, in it's initial version
(also mac only, and was limited to FX) had somewhat more activity.
Well it was the first so there was probably a lot of excitement and
experimentation. Plug-in technology is now much more mature and has
less of a "hey, cool, let's have a crack at that!" factor. What's
different about AU is that the number of hosts available is far greater
than at the beginning of VST. I think once audio apps of all sorts
become AU hosts things'll pick up. VST hosting was/is a black art.
Unlike VST's original release however, there are a large number of
existing plugins today which merely need to be ported. Why haven't
more AU's appeared? Is it because one must rely on the OS for services
like idle processing, and thus more closely tied to the OS? Is it the
relative complexities of the SDKs? Or is it simply a matter of limited
market demand? Marc and Urs and others are making efforts to promote
AU, but is there something more we, the AU community, should be doing?
I think most developers are getting their VST plugins ported to X to
support SX and then will work to make them AUs. Until there's a pro
hosting environment needing plugins there's no real need to release
them. And as kinks are still being worked out there's little incentive
to be on the "bleeding" edge.
Logic 6 will help a lot I think and any other apps Apple chooses to
release with AU hosting ability.
IMHO,
Robert.
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