What kind of fool would insinuate that Angus Hewitt is a bad engineer by knocking the company he sold to Roli? Rhetorical question I know, but really? that guy and a few others there were and are super solid engineers by anyones standard. He's working with FL Studio now, and I'm sure there will be great things in their pipeline....and where are FXpansion now? Not a good example.
Are you on Windows? I ask because I regularly use three DAWs that load VST 2, VST 3 and AU plugins. All three are prone to having a particular plugin format fail evaluation, and it's not AU or VST 2. Why does this always need repeating to you folks? it's the hosting of plugins that having Steinberg (you know the makers of your DAW?), be in charge of, that causes some issues for other DAWs. There's so many examples of this even outside of VST. When the Audio Unit plugin format was introduced Apple tweaked without letting MOTU and others know, the AU spec to help Logic host AU, so upon initial release all DAWs besides Logic were crashing when AU's loaded. They have all sorts of incentive to fix it and help other DAWs work well with AU, but a DAW developer flatly does not. I'm Sure Steinberg have hosting documentation, but I'm also sure there isn't half the incentive to help as there is with AU and Apple, (the fact U-He exists is proof of that), and there are clear reasons for this.As for other DAWs, it's possible VST3 may cause issues, but I suspect mostly it's the plugin coding itself rather than VST3. Jeez, I use Cubase and even today there are plugins that crash it. That was the case for VST2 also, which kinda makes it likely nothing to do with the protocol itself. And I don't hear boards full of whining about VST3 crashing various hosts. For those that want CLAP, good on them, I hope it works out. But there's a fair bit of hyperbole going on here...
Statistics: Posted by machinesworking — Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:04 am