Freakin Mopho

[Jay Vaughan]

> Yeah those freakin plugin apis suck suck suck! Never mind that all
> daws handle em differently too.


Its really a fact that plugin architectures have become 'standards'  
when they really shouldn't have been anything more than utter, total,  
hacks, thrown away the moment the OS vendor realizes that plugins in  
audio are necessary, and do it at the OS level.  VST was never a good  
way to do this, but it stuck because people got used to using them,  
and Microsoft (yes, its their fault) didn't catch up and play ball and  
propose a proper OS-level means of implementing inline plugins in the  
audio graph.

And when they did (with DirectX something-or-other), Steinberg decided  
not to use it and continue with their own proprietary scheme in an  
effort to dominate the plugin market.  Plugins became a way for DAW  
vendors to own their customers, and it shows.

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Jay Vaughan