Have you ever looked at NSOpenGLView and you wished there were an HIView equivalent for drawing into an OpenGL context ? Now there is. I’ve coded a little c++ class which does mainly the same as NSOpenGLView. And it’s free for everyone. I placed it under the BSD license. Have fun. Download

My first self produced LP is ready. It’s called “Johnny King vs John Bruninski”. The A-Side was recorded by a friend of mine with a 4-track recorder while the B-Side was recorded with Cubase and Nuendo. Published is it through Fidel-Bastro. You can find out more at the LP page (german only at the moment).

I read much about the transition which focuses on difficulties for users in the future, but no article talks about the music stuff which won’t make the transition. There’s much software out which won’t get compiled for Intel processors as their companies went out of business, or won’t support their software anymore. Many VST Plugins which were ported from classic Mac OS to MacOSX are CFM plugins. CFM plugins will never work on Intel processors inside the host application. Audio applications won’t work in the Rosetta emulator and all plugins need to be compiled for Intel to work this way. So say good bye to Attack, PPG, GRM Tools, etc…
For us audio freaks it’s the second hard transition on the mac in less then 4 years. A big amount of plugs didn’t take the route to OS X, now there will be again many plugs which will never work on Intel based Macs, at least not inside the host process. One way to make them available may be to run a separate app which will run in Rosetta and use IPC (Inter process communication) to exchange the audio buffers. But this will degrade the performance if it works at all.
So what to do ? I think it will take at least another 3 to 4 years until music software has made the total switch to Macs with Intel processors and with many lost software. So if you want to use Macs for making music you should wait until your current machine is too slow for what you want to achieve and then buy the fastest PowerMac G5 you can get. This power should be enough for the next 3 years.
As a developer I don’t see any difficulties to get Software running on Intel based Macs, but as a musician I’m angry for this shift. Maybe I should build my next DAW on top of a Windows machine

I just found one old remix of Division by Hell-G on one of my backup CDs. I removed the digital clicks that the version he sent me got. It is a really wonderful remix. Check it out. And for comparison check out the original version.
And once again thanks to Helge Neuhaus for this one.

There is a new Support Forum. If you want to have support for Multi Delay or any other software I have written, register and post your questions there. You can also post there if you want to make any other comment about this site.

After long inhouse speculation Yamaha officially announced today that they will buy Steinberg out of Pinnacle. What a nice day today. Pinnacle mostly sucks and I was thinking about leaving Steinberg because of them.Now I’m feeling lucky and christmas could be much better than ever. The most exciting thing I heard today was that even Apple was one of the bidders for Steinberg. That would suck. Not that I don’t like Apple but that would have a bad mood after they had bought Emagic. One other bidder was Avid. Boy am I happy that they also didn’t won the race. They would kill Nuendo.
I think Yamaha will be much more fair to us than all the other companies out there. I doubt that they won’t touch us but I think that they will give us much more than Pinnacle ever wanted. So I feel happy and I will drink some beer.

Our server was hacked last weekend and we had to clean it. That was my chance to update this blogging software. As I’m too lazy to port the old interface to this new version, I just modified the default skin.
No news on Multi Delay or anything like that. But it is working with Logic 7 without changing a line of code not like so many other plugs

Your favorite DAW in its new flavor turns 3 and I think you will love it.
And yes there is a mac version as always, and we won’t stop here.You will see some nice new features and I think at the negative side some of you may be disappointed that we didn’t have integrated some of the latest mac only features. There won’t be AU support yet with this version and I’m glad that we didn’t. I’m currently fighting enough with our Sampler to get it working with the different AU hosts out there. And I have to say that it is not a lovely job at the moment. The major AU host is so bad in regards of supporting standards that everyone would kill me if I would drop support for it because of this. This experience let me think that it is too early to support AU in our host. I’ve heard that version 7 of the major AU host will be supporting the standard and I think if that version will settle we can start to bring our AU implementation to the end so that every one will be happy. (And maybe we will have the killer for AU then )
Even support for the Audio Midi Setup is not in this release even tho it is mostly ready and I think it will come early next year.
But we have optimizations for the G5 in it and some optimizations for the graphics. More will follow next year.
But there are so cool new stuff inside that most of you will be very surprised. My little favorite is the inplace midi editing. You can now edit midi in the arrange window. I love it (thanks Klaus). Sample warp is something I personally won’t use much but for people doing much loop music will be pleased with it. And finally there will be some kind of Mixer Maps like in the old VST days, but I think much better. But I hope you will see it youself. It is worse its price.
Go to Steinbergs website for a more in depth (spell marketing) overview

Just another update.
This one only fixes the drawing issues in the Audio Unit Version.
As always you can find it here.

So, another little bugfix release.
Nothing really new, check the Changelog.
And the AU Version is now also available.If you have problems with it, post to this thread.