----- Original Message ----- From: "Angus F. Hewlett" <amulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 8:52 PM Subject: [gmpi] Re: Out-of-Band: suggestion for rethink > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Vincent Burel wrote: > > > > I disagree. Commenting on existing SDKs will allow us a good overview of > > > their REAL shortcomings, rather than their lack of corner-case and > > > cloud-cuckoo-land functionality. The undisputable fact is that even the > > > SDK that is regarded as one of the most flawed and primitive - VST - is > > > able to deliver 85% of what both vendor and customer want 85% of the time; > > > on wich planet ! ? :-) > > Seriously. Ignoring stability problems due largely to spec incompleteness, > and non-technical issues (piracy-related market problems) what is VST > unable to deliver THAT HOST VENDORS AND CUSTOMERS REALLY WANT? I don't know if you can ignore all the things around VST SDK's . > And if those problems are so bad, why are probably >85% of DAW plugins > today written natively as VST or something similar, and most that are not > are done that way for marketing reasons (high end plugs existing only as > RTAS or TDM). yes ! because this brings money and everybody know that a technology wich brings money will stay alive longer than an other one which brings no money. > There are a few things that suck about it, sure... things it is really > unable to deliver to customers that we can reasonably forsee that > customers will want (top of the list would be a dreadful implementation of > surround, and a total absence of support for internationalization). But > that kind of thing is easily fixable. Let's do that ! (Steinberg will certainely be happy to get this correction for free ! :-) Vincent Burel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe