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posted by BrianT:
What is the only "high end" TDM plugin company to have identical support for OSX and WinXP on *all* of it's premiere plugins? If you guessed "Bomb Factory", you're correct. Hmmmm, which plugin company was it that Digi just unexpectedly aquired? And I suppose the source code to that large array of plugins, ported to both platforms with identical functionality, would pretty much be a "how to" manual, if you were interested in such things. |
Spot on, Brian, for pointing out such a key aspect of this equation.
Another such key in the equation (I think, please correct me if I'm wrong here), would be in the audio-interface hardware side. A-D convertors seems not something a company simply jumps into, and Digi has a huge advance on Apple in that regard.
Digi has been manufacturing both software AND its relevant hardware for some time now. LOTS of companies make audio software, but what has always set Digi apart from the crowd? Their hardware. Like the stuff or not, Digi's hardware has always been at least one or two steps ahead of every other DAW manufacturer's.
Don't get me wrong: Competition is good. But Digi has a strong history of pulling a "Michael Jordon" on every "threat" to its dominance in this area.
It's ironic, you know: The thing peeps always bitched about the most with Digi was their jealously guarded proprietary nature - that is what has kept them so fiercely competitive over the years - the fact that you MUST use Digi's hardware to use their software. Peeps always bitched about that, but Digi always stuck with that, and that's how they've stayed in the game all this time.
For me, personally, Digi's hardware interface was the key. I had used other DAW softwares previously, but Digi's overall system stability sold me. It would take a truly impressive display of software and hardware integration by a rival company/companies to sway me to consider an alternative at this point. Apple may indeed have something up their sleeve, but I'm not holding my breath.