Re: freeware vs commercial AU development?
Re: freeware vs commercial AU development?
- Subject: Re: freeware vs commercial AU development?
- From: "Roman Thilenius" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:50:05 +0200
> Many of the free and cheap PC VSTs are made using SynthEdit
many maybe but not most, there is an awesome amount of
freeware stuff for PC which is natively coded, yet not as
perfect CPU optimized as commercialware is (well, sometimes).
> I wish there was something like it on the Mac.
there is sonicbirth for the mac which lets you create AU
and VST plug-ins in a lego scheme and there is the SDKs
for VST and AU which lets you create audio plug-ins in
the C-whatever worlds.
if you think the coreaudio sdk is to difficult for you and
if you think something like sonicbirth is too childish or
unflexible, you should use MAX/MSP, like i do.
> > and, with a few exceptions, the commercial synths I've
> > experimented with seem to *look* much much better than they
> > *sound*...
definetly, i agree. it is a joke what the [CENSORED] for
example cost, when you think that the basic technology
behind its synth engine is about 20 years old and that
a similar hardware synth like the tx-81z costs only
about USD 80 today.
then again, when people buy it for its interface, their
problem. it is a good interface.
(capitalism is fraud by definition - if you exspected
anything else then you rethink that point. this is not
software specific. think coca cola. think claudia schiffer.
think about things like "democracy" or "socialism".
it only _looks good. but on the metaphysical layer, these
things are complete fake.)
on the other hand, when making a good interface and nice
graphics _is a lot of work, that _jugdes the price of
commercial software. you get what you paid for.
i would not own a legal copy of nuendo if i wouldnt mind
to work on audio files in black and white and with sluggerish
response on the faders graphics.
but i will never pay a cent for something like quark xpress 4.11
which is not even able to display fonts properly. there is better
_freeware out there.
> I understand there's a way to use PC VSTs in Linux. Would be nice to be
> able to do that on an intel Mac. I should get right on that :-)
>
> Amy
any intel mac boots natively into windows. you can keep your
firewire and usb stuff sconnected, rebbot cold into the other
OS and use other music software there.
there are certain programs which are incompatible with XEONs
(protools for example) but basically the intel macs _are PCs.
btw. this is not only useful for users, it is also great for
application programmers and webdesigners, it saves, as you
suggested, the second computer.
well. it also costs like two.
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