[SoundDiver] Re: SoundDiver dies with Lion - what to do?

> What does everyone think....?

Having joined the party starting with Polyframe in 1991, I also like to see a new version of SoundDiver, but I'm afraid this will never happen, even if you write to Apple as a request etc.

The problem with SoundDiver was the crossplatform library they wrote (Atari, Mac, PC), and it did not work well under OSX as you see. So they will have to do a complete rewrite of the code, and since Steve Jobs thinks that MIDI hardware is obsolete, this will never happen. Same thing with bluRay in Macs, btw.

If this was not Apple, we could collect some money and make them an offer to by the code from them - no chance. We could of course try to contact main developer Michael and hear what he says, but I say: no chance. if Apple ceases a product it is gone forever and no one ever will get his hands on it - see Newton platform.

Now, we have to think about alternatives. Some Ideas:

1. Use Studio Connections and GTRS (http://www.studioconnections.org/concept/index.html), works as a librarian and does Sysex very well, but nearly no one knows about that. There is an SDK for more and specialized integration, but for most things the templates will do, written in XML language.

2. start a community project:
look for programmers having skills and the interest to help with a crossplatform standalone software having the functionality of souddiver and reads the data (libraries). I think most uf us here are even willing to donate money in such a project, right? 

Anyone with more ideas on this? like to see them.

just my 2 cents:)

Greets, Dietmar



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