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Originally Posted by drBill  Steve writes killer TDM plugs. Maybe he just doesn't take well to AU. |
I read on his personal homepage that he's a former employee of Digidesign, and in his profile on this board, Pro Tools in the only 'key gear' that's listed. Of course he has every right not to make any AU at all, and I agree that personal attacks on him doesn't belong anywhere.
I don't see most of the posts here as attacks, maybe they're more of a defense for Apple - which probably was triggered by an early post in this thread where it was stated that "Apple Sucks."
Attacks are normally nothing more than a waste of time, and normally only trigger more attacks.
Either Apple and S.M. sorts this out, or they don't. I hope they do, because it looks like it would be useful for both (and the many AU users) if they did. If they don't, it's not the end of the world - people will buy something else, other developers may make something similar to the Massey plugins, if there's a market/need for such products, and maybe new products even will be ported ower to TDM later - this happened with AltiVerb, among others.
I remember reading that the main guy behind Acid apparently said that there would never be Acid for Mac, and a few years later, he worked for Apple implementing Acid technology in Logic 7 (audio tracks that are recorded in Logic will follow tempo changes in the song if the changes are entered after the recording).
S.M. wrote "TDM plugins will probably stay higher priced until the platform swiftly dies out -- when native fully matches it slightly more adventageous feature set" in
another thread not long ago, and recognizes that the TDM user base is 'perhaps dwindling' already. So... who knows, maybe Massey soon will receive a job offer from Apple?
They 'bought' Kai (behind Kai's Power Tools for Photoshop), they bought Final Cut Pro, they bought the Emagic team and Logic, the Studio Vision main guy and lots of other stuff, so why not Massey Plugins Inc.?
