Total Integration Discussion

[synthman1]

Originally Posted by marc

wouldn't that be a good reason to step away from buying plug-ins at all and focus exclusively on hardware ?

I'm not following what you mean here? I'll give it a stab though.

A plug-in is developed in a software standard like VST. Its up to the daw producer to make sure that standard is compatible and supported in their own software. It's up to the end user to make sure their system is powerful enough to run it and make sure it works in conjunction with their own various customized DAW hardware and software configuration. None of those things are the obligation of the soft-synth developer.

What Access appears to be doing with TI is exactly the opposite by assuming the obligations and responsibilities of end users and music software manufacturers.

If you want a software plug in, then why not release a single instance software VST plug-in.

I understand the concept of trying to create one hardware/software product that does it all while off-loading the processor requirements to the Virus, but something has to give and usually its latency, stability and performance when you push it too far and try to be all things to everyone.