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>--- In logic-ot@yahoogroups.com, Dennis Gunn <dennisg@a...> wrote:
>>  >And if Steinberg leapfrog AU by rushing out an improved
>>  >"VST version 3" in a few months time, and they make it
>>  >nominally a superset of the published AU format, but with
>>  >the added advantage of being cross--platform ... and
>>  >include a simple shell that allows VST3s to effectively
>>  >run stand-alone with rewire support, under all the
>>  >platforms ...
>>
>>  And if they hurry up and put those wings on pigs.....
>
>Well, the "stand-alone shell" part should be easy, and wouldn't need
>a new VST format -- all they'd have to do is take the VSTACK code and
>strip out the effects and multi-instrument stuff, so that it's just
>left as a minimal shell that holds one VST.

Some day someone may make an AU Wrapper for VSTs.  The question is 
"why should we consumer want that?".   What is the point of all this 
Rube Goldberg wrapper crap that will just at a layer of instability, 
complication, and CPU overheard?

It would be about a million times better for all of us consumers if 
the developers would simply make the OSX plugins in the AU format 
like they should be doing.   *That* is what you should be lobbying 
for.

There is some thing that really bugs me in the way that people keep 
ignoring the fact that there is no such thing  as a cross platform 
format now.  As we all know, just because the label says VST does not 
mean that you can use a Mac one on a PC or vice versa.  Same with 
TDMs and RTAS and every other plugin format out there.  Plugins on 
the various platforms all need some rewriting before they can work on 
other platforms.  So what if a PC VST ends up getting called an AU 
when it is in OSX?    The code that makes the sound will be the same.

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