Re: plugin development
Re: plugin development
- Subject: Re: plugin development
- From: Loic KESSOUS <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:27:49 +0100
What's about LADSPA, DSSI, and LV2 are they platform independent ?Apple os X, Microsoft Windows and GNU Linux ?
or only for linux ?
-lk
On Jan 3, 2010, at 8:39 PM, tahome izwah wrote:
> 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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