Re: [SoundDiver] Re: THOUGHTS FROM AND OLDIE BUT A NEWBIE TO THIS LIST

More appropriately, the Apple guys don't/didn't care about Sounddiver.  :)


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Subject: [SoundDiver] Re: THOUGHTS FROM AND OLDIE BUT A NEWBIE TO THIS LIST


>>       Michael Haydn, the author of SoundDiver, AMT protocol and Logic
>>       Control, said long long time ago there was some system limitation
>>       in
>>       OS X that prevented Autolink from working properly. You might check
>>       the archives for 2002 or 2003 if interested.
>
>
> There is nothing in OSX stopping anything of the sort.  C code is C code
> and so on.   It's just that Sounddiver is such a crappily written
> application no one probably could be bothered to recode it.
>
> There are many things in UNIX which allow one app to talk to another,
> there are also lots of glue apps like Perl, shell scripts, TCL and so on.
> I do not think there is any such limitation.   Microsoft makes Excel
> talk to Word and Powerpoint, for example (no matter what you think of MS).
>
> I put the reason as to why the OSX Autolink was never done was because
> plainly the Logic guys didn't care about Sounddiver and just couldn't
> be bothered.  All it would take is an XML DTD, a parser and a script
> launcher to read in/out the variables - in a very general sense.
>
> If the source code was made Open Source, someone would've found a way,
> by now - there is always a way!
>
> The truth is, SD is a dead obsolete product that is practically
> abandonware, but is on life support for whatever convoluted reason
> the developers give this week - Just like Unitor Control, which
> we really can't live without if you own a Unitor or AMT-8!
>
>
> rachel
>
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> Australia
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