The Logic Off Topic list

Brian Pylant wrote:
 > (As an aside, I wish someone would come up with either a cross-platform
> plugin format, or at least a way to wrap Windows VSTs to OS X AUs -
> FXPansion has already stated they have no plans to even attempt this,
> although IMO if they could work it out they'd make a killing - if it's
> even technically possible, of course).

You know (not that this is exactly related), so far it was Emagic doing
their best possible to make Logic less compatible to anything than ever
before.
OMF support still seems to be broken (at least it was the last time I tried,
not too long ago).
MIDI file ex/import has allways been lousy to say the least.
4.8 export simply sucks. Couldn't be anymore broken.
There's no plugin compatibility at all anymore. Even if you own exactly the
same plugin in both VST and AU format, those won't be compatible (no matter
whether the VST version was used on Windows or OS9).

As said, this is not exactly related, as a Windows/VST plugin won't load
under any Mac OS anyways (at least not natively), but Emagic have done a
good portion on the way of being less compatible than ever before.
These days I have a REALLY hard time loading a Windows/VST song into
LogicPro - until OS9 it was no problem at all. And I allways take care of
not using any plugin that doesn't exist in both VST and AU format. Still,
songs won't load properly.

Seriously, if I wouldn't love Logic so much for it's elegance in terms of
anything having to do with ergonomics... well, I don't know what I'd tell
Emagic. It defenitely wouldn't be what would be considered politically
correct.

- Sascha