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Will there be LADSPA / DirectX / MAS / RTAS / TDM / etc. versions?

April 26, 2017DirectX ladspa MAs rtas TDM versions

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Will there be LADSPA / DirectX / MAS / RTAS / TDM / etc. versions?

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It’s very unlikely. Especially all of Digidesign’s formats (RTAS, AudioSuite, and TDM) because they are completely closed, proprietary formats. You need Digidesign’s permission to make plugins in those formats and then you must keep the details secret, which doesn’t work for us since we release our source code. And we definitely won’t do MAS since Digital Performer now supports Audio Units (as of version 4.1), so MAS is basically an irrelevant format. LADSPA currently lacks a lot of features that our plugins rely on (tempo and other musical time information, MIDI, custom GUIs, etc.), so it would be difficult to support that format and it would require removing a lot of functionality from our plugins.