EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On 6/7/02 12:00 PM, "Martin, Jeremy" <sadus@...> wrote:

> 
> 
> If I recall correctly Markus said it was incredibly easy to use a wrapper
> around a VST plug to make it into an AudioUnit... So I wouldn't be too
> worried about this. Yep, here's the original post:
> 
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> From:  Markus Fritze <mfritze@...>
> Date:  Thu May 9, 2002  8:58 am
> Subject:  Re: [LUG] [LAM] Mac OS X and VST
> 
>> I don´t agree on that part. VST is propieretary, sure but there will
>> be VST for Win and MacOS 9 and AudioUnit for MacOS X, meaning that the
>> Manufacturer will have to keep up two codebases, or ditch one.
> 
> They don't have to! It is easy (I dare to use the word "trivial", but it
> comes in my mind) to wrap VST into an AudioUnit, because the AudioUnit is
> sort of superset to VST (you can do more with less work). So: have a wrapper
> source, add it to you project, recompile and you are a clean Mac OS X
> citizen!
> 
> 
> MMM
> 

you should take in the other side of the argument, best expressed in my
opinion, by Marx Poirier:

> 
> Well, if it makes any difference, I think it would not be too good if
> Logic for OS X did not support VST, at least initially.  Do you really
> think that we will see many AudioUnits any time soon?  Almost no plugin
> makers have even bothered to carbonize their plugins yet, let alone make
> AudioUnits.  (Did you know that about 90% of the carbon plugs currently
> available are either by me or were ported by me?  Pretty dismal.)
> 
> And maybe I'm just not looking in the right places, but I've had a very
> difficult time finding solid information about AudioUnits.  I'm very
> interested & have tried to explore them a bit, but the SDK is woefully
> inadequate (no actual text documents, just some headers & sources for a
> simple reverb example) & info on Apple's developer pages seems to just be
> very general.  So I don't see how anyone can create anything even slightly
> complex at this point...  Or am I just missing some key documentation
> that's out there?
> 
>> Marc Poirier

Bottom line: Markus said that nothing had yet been decided...

Malcolm


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