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Re: Authoring plugs to be Audio Units AND VST/RTAS etc
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Re: Authoring plugs to be Audio Units AND VST/RTAS etc


  • Subject: Re: Authoring plugs to be Audio Units AND VST/RTAS etc
  • From: Howard Moon <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:35:37 -0700


On Jun 18, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Sophia Poirier [dfx] wrote:

On Jun 18, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Bjorn Roche wrote:

	I am authoring some effects that I believe people will want to use
with software other than my own. It looks easy enough to author Audio
Units, but I think it would be a significant added value to also
supply VST/RTAS and other host-based versions as well. Does anyone
know an easy way to do this? Has someone written a free or commercial
solution to this problem? Is this even relevant as more and more
modern apps support Audio Units? (I know Audio Units are not yet De
Facto, but perhaps someone has a sense of where this is going)

It's pretty close to de facto. It's really just Cubase/Nuendo that's the hold-out at this point. Whereas there are at least a dozen AU-only apps. So VST for Mac at this point is essentially a special case for Cubendo, and RTAS is a special case for Pro Tools. AU covers everything else.



I think you'll find that Cubase, Nuendo and ProTools are hardly "special case" tools. I don't have specific figures handy, I but *suspect* the customer base for those is larger than Logic, Digital Performer, GarageBand, and whoever else supports AU on the Mac.


We still have to support Windows users, as well, and VST prevails there (in terms of number of hosts supporting it). I think DirectX is still hanging in as well, but the major DirectX hosts now provide "transparent" conversion of VST plug-ins, so we've dropped DirectX support.

On the Mac side, though, FXpansion provides a variety of "wrapper" technologies which might help you.

Also, Logic supports TDM, another ProTools technology.

-Howard


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