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Originally Posted by klaukholm  Well, we both have to work with the market leader (PTHD) and I think you would be hard pressed to find a company that is less of a team player.
If they were a team player, we would all have PT import export options in our other DAWs, but they made damn sure that would be impossible (dark matter anyone, or the euphonix 727 interface back in the PT5 days)
Being the market leader does not mean you do everything the optimal way in terms of design.
As a pyramix user, I have many concerns, but them not trying to be interoperative with others is not one of them.
I see no purpose or point in bashing Pyramix because Tony had issues with interoperability. |
They were very late to the game supporting QT files, so that eroded support for them. This is not bashing them; it's a point of fact. I've had their stuff in for review and there are several points I could make, but why bother?
People bash PT all the time and PT users either say, "OK that's probably true, Avid sucks at that" or "I have several DAWs in my studio to be compatible with all our clients". The thing is, PT makes a lot of people able to communicate with each other, so it sells. I remember saying to a forum that was mostly Nashville-based in the early 90's that if studios didn't have a PT room within a decade, they'd probably go under on Music Row. That prediction has come to pass (several years ago) but you should have read the howls of rebuke I endured! And every one of the engineers who told me I was stupid and deaf (because, hey, PT sounded awful and didn't have tubes), is now either out of the biz or learned to use PT. That's a fact. They either made the jump or they didn't get work.
I didn't love PT then and I certainly hated the fact that there wasn't a public doc of their multitudinous errors at that point (no knowledge base). I fought long and hard for that, as did several others. But, even with disliking a lot of aspects, it was easy to see they would wind up on top because they were first (along with Opcode, RIP) and they "got it" on several levels. That's the reason third party providers hooked up with them. Sorry, but you don't see that happening with Pyramix and that limits their market share. It's just the truth, not bashing.
I'd say Nuendo is likely PT's greatest market competition partly because they've had so many third party supporters and partly because they beat PT at their own game in some instances. But that's the point, really, you can't make it by having some features that are better than PT's; you have to have third party support and Steinberg just has lots of ancillary stuff that reaches out in all directions, production as well as post.
Supporting a lot of formats is useful if you are a "canopener utility", but if you're a vertical niche-market app, it's hard going. Look at New England Digital.
That said, I made the point earlier in the thread, which you apparently chose to ignore, that I'd like to see "universal formats" actually be universal. They seem to be split into two different specs between Europe and the US, but then, look how long it took to get to "Pin 2 hot".