The Logic Off Topic list

>Yes, but companies like Steinberg and Emagic provided over the past
>years affordable, comparable and workable solutions for musicians at
>a lower price level. And due to open standards (like VST) you have a
>broad product choice.
>
>My worry is that Emagic will go the Digidesign route:
>own standards, less integratable with 3d party products,
>higher prices,
>diminished platform comptability,
>and ultimately losing ground against other competitors (especially
>Steinberg).

Don't worry.  VST is not going anywhere.  My understanding is that it 
is already a part of OSX.   The only thing that kind of bugs me is 
that there is not yet any kind of "wrapper" to make old VST functions 
work in OSX with out having a little work done on them.   Old OS 9.xx 
plugs have to have (what I am told is a trivial) operation done on 
them to make their graphics compatible with OSX.  It will be 
interesting to see what happens with audio units.  It sounds like 
there are a lot of plugins that have already been ported.

>And I'm looking at this purely from the (Emagic)user perspective: the
>user who has invested time and money in Emagic products and now finds
>him/herself in restriction of choices.
>And this is what already is going on now and might get worse over
>time if you decide to stick with Emagic.

Yes I would like to know the future too.  But I don't.  One thing I 
do know is that there is enough competition out there to assure that 
things will be getting better not worse.

One thing is do see that is getting worse is the tendency of people 
to bottom quote.  Truly annoying.