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Emagic Releases Logic Platinum for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the the-platform-is-the-standard dept.

ericdano writes "Emagic announced the release of the first version of Logic Platinum 5 for Mac OS X. This is accompanied by the simultaneous release of Mac OS X hardware drivers for Emagic's range of USB MIDI and audio interfaces. It is a free download to registered Logic Platinum 5 users." Apple bought Emagic a couple of months ago.

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  1. Good news by MaxVlast · · Score: 3

    This is good news. The pro audio software has been slow in coming as they seem to access the hardware at a fairly low level, which wasn't permitted in Classic. My understanding of Core Audio in Mac OS X, though, is that it's a lot better than the tools that developers had at their disposal previously.

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  2. Jaguar and MIDI by Draoi · · Score: 3, Informative
    I went out and bought an Edirol UM-2 a few weeks ago(at the Apple Store in Cupertino!). Works just great on 9 but when I switched over to Jaguar I was curious as to how Apple got around the lack of OMS in MacOS X.

    So I went to the Edirol site, downloaded the experimental X.2 driver, popped it into the right place (/Library/Audio/MIDI Drivers) - and, hey, it works! The app went on to discover most of my MIDI setup including an antiquated Oberheim OB-8. Apple's new 'Audio Midi Setup' app works almost exactly like OMS, except with a much nicer UI & audio config thrown in.

    The downside - absolutely no documentation from Apple, either from built-in help or on-line. There is their audio page but there's precious little about MIDI.

    Apple, BTW, already have Logic Platinum 5.3.0 update on their site. You can check it out here (anyone dare ./ Apple??? :-) ) It's very slick running in Aqua ...

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  3. the death of VST plugins? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    stage4 has this article that picks up on Emagic's switch to 'audio units' over popular 3rd party plugin formats such as VST.

    Is this good or bad?

    1. Re:the death of VST plugins? by Draoi · · Score: 4, Informative
      Bad - very bad. Cubase SX for MacOS X (when it's *finally* released) will probably be VST only, for a few good reasons;
      • There's bo-zillions of VST plug-ins out there already
      • Cubase is cross-platform & the VST format also works on PCs with a re-compile. So why should companies like Steinberg fork their existing plug-ins; VST for x86 and 'audio units' for MacOS X?
      • VST is popular and seen as 'open'. Audio Units are unknown and are MacOS only and the API is owned by Apple, which will be seen by others as a Bad Thing!
      • Companies like Bias, Inc. that specialise in VST plug-ins now have to do double(ish) the work to support two platforms & standards. Why?
      Just MHO ....
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    2. Re:the death of VST plugins? by Tom7 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Well, most of my new plugins are pretty useless without their custom GUI. Some plugins with a few straightforward parameters work fine with no GUI, but for the fancy stuff a GUI is vital. (In fact, one I'm working on right now has so many settings that it doesn't even use host 'parameters' for most stuff!)

      Anyway, if you are happy with no custom GUI, then you will almost certainly be able to load VST plugins as audio units. VSTGUI is the biggest obstacle to switching over in my opinion.