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Originally posted by hmurchison
Apple doesn't owe people anything. They will deliver the features when ready. Make music people and stop trying to pretend you understand what a programmer must go through. |
It's that attitude right there that forced me to finally switch from Logic. This is the free market not a religion. If a company, particularly a large, well-funded company wants my money they better earn it and deliver with some deliberate haste. Logic was one of the first programs with some ADC, but it's been almost two versions and they've still not finished it yet. ADC on the individual tracks was around since version 5. It was criminal for Logic to have proceeded to ver 6 without finishing the job.
As far as programs duplicating each other... I would agree. BUT, there are some features that are a logic progression to the idea of the DAW. From the beginning the DAW was intended to be the one device that you needed from recording to mixdown to final master. Native FX has remained a quality issue. This reality led to companies like Waves, Sonic Timeworks and the rest. This reality led to the various plugin formats like Direct X, VST, TDM, etc. Recently it's led to products like UAD and the TC cards as an alternative to the Digimonster. So all this talk about coding and what programmers go through is really just water under the bridge. It's the price you pay for playing the DAW game.
Delay compensation and features like it is not just stuff to have in the DAW big penis competition. This stuff is absolutely necessary to allow musicians to do their work wtih all the new tools that are available. And if you ask me, much of the reason why so many companies are having to rewrite code for what seems to us musicians as simple stuff is because of the whole proprietary/closed format of the DAW world. If the DAW companies would have just agreed to a single format a long time ago they wouldn't have to be shucking and jiving to get caught up. But hey, I just make music.
