Re: plugin development
Re: plugin development
- Subject: Re: plugin development
- From: tahome izwah <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:39:09 +0100
I fully agree. I don't see how my statement is inaccurate though: what
you're describing is exactly the situation on the market today:
Steinberg, Avid and Apple are the major players when it comes to plug
in standards - if they don't agree on a standard there will be none.
It doesn't really matter what ambitious independent companies (and I
mean this in a good way) like MotU, NI and Ableton do because their
host market share on the Mac is rather insignificant compared to the
major three. Who besides MotU supports MAS plug ins?
I can fully understand how Steinberg (and others) don't have an
incentive to promote an Apple standard that is single-platform only,
relatively new and competes with their own established format's market
share. I don't think that they're protecting their family jewels,
there is simply nothing in it for them.
It would probably take Steinberg a few days to implement AU support in
their hosts, but what would it get them? This would just create more
exposure for their competition (and would require changes that apply
to one platform only). And given that Apple always has a head start
(being hardware and DAW software manufacturer at the same time) they
have even less reason to support the AU standard... :-(
--th
2010/1/3 Paul Davis <email@hidden>:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 1:34 PM, tahome izwah <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Yeah, a side effect of that ridiculous platform war between Avid,
>> Steinberg and Apple.
>>
>> It's all about market share and political decisions and the end user
>> has to suffer from it because the industry has no interest in
>> establishing a universal standard :-(
>
> i think that's a little inaccurate. "major players in the industry
> have no interest" is accurate. for all that it has been lampooned,
> GMPI did represent a pretty cross-industry effort to define a
> universal standard. predictably, though it started without
> participation from Digidesign; Apple bowed out at the first meeting
> noting "We've already done this with AudioUnits", and Steinberg
> decided that VST was actually the family jewels rather than an open
> plugin standard. there was plenty of interest from plugin developers
> and authors of other hosts, but without these three titans on board,
> there's not a lot that can be done.
>
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