Every Audio Developer should read this thread on osxaudio.com. You won’t regret. Pure Apple religion :-0

Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) is a big step forward, but it also has some very odd bugs.The bug that mostly annoys me was the bug all Cubase owners have seen that some images aren’t drawn correctly. After trying every possibility many hours later I found a workaround. The workaround is to use an API call that is deprecated more or less. Calling CreateCGContextForPort instead of QDBeginCGContext solves the issue, but I’m not very happy with this solution.
As a user I want a working Mail.app. Mail often simply freezes on my IMAP account after selecting a message. I’ve to wait a few minutes or just kill Mail and restart it. That’s unproductive.
And then there is the Safari Cookies security hole. This really has to be fixed asap. I’ve switched to Camino because of this and Camino also suffers from graphical bugs in Panther.
It’s again a long way to a stable and good Mac OS build for Apple.

Are AudioUnits the Mac way to develop Audio Plug-Ins ?
There is much talk about it on many forums (cubase.net, logicuser.net, osxaudio.com etc) and some developers talk about it also (here and here).
Some are praising Audio Units as the defacto standard for Mac OS X. But is it ? Is it the standard audio plugin format because Apple Computer Inc. said this ? This would mean that DXi is the standard on computers with the Windows operating system.
So DXi and AU are the audio plugin standards on todays most used operating systems. This would be the conclusion. But the fact is that VST is currently the standard. Why ? It is cross platform and it is old, much older than AU and DXi.
Yes this also means that the technologies used in VST are also older. This is why the mac developers rightly say that AU is superior (maybe the same is true for DXi, I don’t know). But does this mean that if you are a truly mac developer you have to go the AU way ? No. There is one thing not discussed yet. AudioUnits are a baby of Apple. Besides the untrue saga that AU is an open system, Apple can close it anytime if they want. Apple is mostly a hardware company not an audio company (yes they are good in copying technology, see Core Audio, Audio Units etc) but at first there is the hardware they want to sell and if there is no more need in Audio anymore they will discontinue it. So this is also true for every other plugin format out there, but DigiDesign and Steinberg are only interested in Audio so their plugin formats won’t go away until they go out of the audio business.
What we really need is an open audio plugin standard that is not controlled by one company. (there is something on the way, but nothing available in the next few years).

The first MIDI Plug-In for Cubase SX or Nuendo is here. If you have a PhatBoy Remote Controller from keyfax, then suck this and start controlling your other MIDI/VSTi gear with it.

I’ve updated the Multi Delay Plug-In. This Version adds Audio Unit Support and uses a modified filter algorithm.Go here and grab the new version.