RE: Cubase SX != AU
RE: Cubase SX != AU
- Subject: RE: Cubase SX != AU
- From: Marc Poirier <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:57:02 -0500 (CDT)
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Mikael Hillborg wrote:
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Perhaps, yes, but I assume it might take some time before the VST3 spec
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if finalized.
Yes, "some time" (I think that the original projected release date they
gave already passed about 2 years ago).
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And then it'll take some time after that to provide the AU
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support on top of that. So to me it sounds like it'll take some time and
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that the exclusion of AU even in SX 2.0 is a kind of strategy.
Not sure, but suffice to say that, whatever the reasons are, they're not
the ones that they are giving, since those don't make any sense. I've
scanned their forums occasionally now and then to see where the issue is
at, and these are the 2 main things that I've seen from Steinberg
representatives:
The main line that you hear from Steinberg folks is that they make cross
platform software and therefore need to use a cross-platform plugin format
and therefore only VST is appropriate. Aside from the fact that this
doesn't make any logical sense (there's no such thing as cross-platforms
Windows/Mac software that is truly identical on both platforms; part of
supporting each platform is supporting some of its system architecture
that is unique), it also isn't even what they do, given that they do
support DirectX for Windows. And of course most of their users are smart
enough to figure both of those things out, and whenever a Steinberg person
idiotically states this sort of argument, someone counters it with the 2
things that I just said, and then there's no more response from Steinberg.
The other main thing I've heard is that AU support just means X support
(where X is some AU-only instrument whose name I can't remember which
they pretend is the only AU-only plugin, but anyway, you get the point).
But that of course doesn't make sense either and again, whenever that
happens, other Cubase users are smart enough to start mentioning a bunch
of other AU-only plugs that they want to use. Particularly bad is that
users are losing out on what has typically been considered basic Mac
functionality, that being the GM QuickTime synth, which is now implemented
as the DLS MusicDevice. There's a lot of complaint about that, and about
not being able to use the AUMatrixReverb which is very very popular, which
people consider to be just part of the system and part of what they
bought with their OS, and Cubase not really supporting the Mac system.
Marc
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