Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 4:16 am
And you have to ask your self - "self - why is MX4 Mac only?".Frodo wrote:I wish I knew more about what MX4 actually did compared to what a ton of other similar VIs did, but for as much as I like it, $280 is "up there", especially since it's Mac-only.
I get why DAWs are single platform. They're really complicated and end up being tightly intertwined with the OS at a low level. Plugs and VIs, OTOH, are really standalone programs with well defined higher level interfaces. They can be done cross platform easily.
I did a little digging and found that TruePianos - everybody's fav ultralight piano - is built on a free framework called JUCE http://www.rawmaterialsoftware.com/juce/. Notice that it abstracts Graphics, MIDI and Audio interfaces on both PCs and Macs. That's pretty much all you need when building a VI.
And so I end up asking myself - "self, why doesn't MOTU make use of this to make their VI's cross platform and increase their revenue base?"
I have no answer.