Audio Damage Update...

Well, with a couple hiccups, our new framework for porting older products (e.g. those without the newer “flat” UIs, everything released after Tattoo) that we first tried with Dubstation seems to be standing the acid test. We’re going to give it a couple more weeks, but at this juncture I’m willing to say that we are now able to port the entire existing product line to 64-bit, so it’s just a matter of doing that.

Now, this transition is going to be a bit problematic for AudioUnits users, but hey, you bought in to a format made by a company that changes its mind a lot, and you gotta roll with the punches.

The main thing to note: all the upcoming new versions will be stereo-only as far as AUs are concerned. We’re done paying homage to Logic’s ridiculous stereo-fying habits, which play fast and loose with the entire concept of turning mono channels in to stereo ones. The process should either be entirely transparent (like in Live) or not subject to change (like in Cubase and any hardware studio). So if you want to use a stereo effect on a mono channel, you need to do it as a send, like a real producer.

Anyhow, since we have bills to pay, and updating existing products to 64-bit means almost nothing in the way of income, we’re going to release another new product before we do the rest of the line. This next product will be built as a VST3, and use Steinberg’s provided methods for making a VST2.4 and AudioUnit. It will, as a result, have sidechaining and all the other features available to VST3 users. We’re essentially learning a new format here, so our testing process will be a little more strenuous than normal, but we’re pretty sanguine about the concept at this juncture, and expect this to be fairly painless, as we’ve already overcome all the hard parts. (Theoretically.)

Anyhow, that’s where we’re at. I have a Google+ account now, and my profile can be found at gplus.to/Crandall. If you’re rollin’ with the Big G, you can find me up in there. Since I don’t have the Book Of Faces, I’m not exactly sure what I’ll be using the G+ account for, but it’s there, and will no doubt contain pithy prose of the sort you already know and love. G+ doesn’t seem to have the obvious commercial angle that FaceBook and MySpace had, so making band and company pages to “like” seems fairly pointless, at least at this juncture. I’m sure they’ll fuck it up down the road, though.