Re: everyone having fun with the Digidesign CoreAudio drivers?
Re: everyone having fun with the Digidesign CoreAudio drivers?
- Subject: Re: everyone having fun with the Digidesign CoreAudio drivers?
- From: Christopher Penrose <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:30:11 -0400
You are totally right, Jim. I think that it would be excellent for
Apple to approve drivers, in some capacity, released by third-party
developers. If they could control the usage of "CoreAudio compliant"
in corporate advertising actively, we might see improvements.
Personally, I would go further and subpoena Digidesign to remove "MacOS
X" from their packaging until their software actually was interoperable
and was free of the guerrilla hacking of the HAL. But since CoreAudio
was designed to allow such behavior, I think that Apple engineers will
be much more sympathetic than I to Digidesign, as it is, for some, a
choice (whatever that really means, I personally would never choose to
buy an mBox at this point) to buy the product and install the drivers.
From what I have seen, these CoreAudio drivers are a complete and utter
travesty; they are consciously designed to thwart inter-operability to
the best of the developer's ability. It is no accident: you don't
have to be a cynic to believe that Digidesign made a conscientious
decision to degrade the performance and interoperability of other audio
applications to support their Borg marketing strategy. They absolutely
have no business whatsoever re-routing other hardware vendors drivers.
Digidesign is aggressively courting other audio developers to
integrate their software into plugin architectures, such that Protools
remains a central and essential tool. I am appalled by such
Microsoft-inspired marketing. Protools will never be every tool to
every musician; and its efforts to try to be so will only alienate a
wide selection of potential and existing customers.
Christopher
On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 10:26 AM, Jim Vanaria wrote:
Hey Chris,
Just wanted to let you know that you are not alone in your frustration
with Digidesign. Indeed, their drivers are the WORST. I have the
Digi-001 and the DD coders developed the driver so that your mac NEVER
GOES TO SLEEP. I totally cripples a feature of Mac OS X. As a
result, I had to write a little app (DigiSleep Enabler
http://www.xmidi.com/digisleep.html) that removes their drivers and
reinstalls automatically. I've had over 100 downloads from people
from the Digi forum and at least 20 emails from people telling me
thanks for "fixing" Digi's problem. I've been on their customer
support trying to list this as a bug and they simply tell me it is
"expected behavior" for their driver. I can't tell you how
frustrating it is to see a company that is so INCONSIDERATE of the OS
that it is running on.
And as you have noticed, their drivers (despite the claim of working
with all apps) are only reliable with PT. Within Cubase, the audio
drops out randomly and frequently.
It seems to me that if a company is going to say that they've released
a CoreAudio driver, that it should meet some minimum requirements,
pass some standard test supplied by Apple. Digidesign throws around
that phrase almost as a marketing tool because their "CoreAudio
Drivers" only seem to work within PT.
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