May 12, 2006
bitching and moaning
Can I just reiterate (really quick before I go to bed) how terrible the DXi and VSTi SDKs are? They make it impossible for people
to write solid hosts, and make for tons of lousy plugins that don't handle any host that isn't
PERFECT. All they need is better documentation and developer discussion (so developers of hosts can know what plug-ins use to do things, and developers of plug-ins can know what hosts are doing). For example, after one email from
the developer of jamstix, I got it working in REAPER. If
only the FL Studio devs would mail me (who am I kidding, but I'd love to be proven wrong)...
Since we're still waiting to hear back from Propellerheads on the Rewire SDK, we may just have to do
something of our own to add rewire-like functionality. Perhaps we can call it ReaRoute, and perhaps
it will work with tons of other software, without them having to do a thing. Mmmmm. Lots of code to
write.
It just pisses me off to no end how all of these audio software companies don't care about their
users. They care about them, but keeping them just happy enough to get some of their money. Fuck that.