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On EusebioRZ said

On musicman said

On lastcall said

Too bad devs forget the best DAW is Pro Tools and they don’t make an AAX version of their plugins.

That’s quite debatable 😉

But apart from which DAW is best, Protools should’ve ditched AAX years ago and made life easier for all the developers and their customers.

It’s quite absurd to have different formats for different DAWs and them clinging to AAX. I haven’t installed any CLAP plugins yet (apart from any forced ones, where you can’t choose format), but in a perfect world I’d like to see either that, or VST become the only format.

1. I prefer when a native AAX is available but, for VSTi’s I just load them through PluginGuru Unify
2. While a single standard would be convenient from a User’s point of view, as a software developer I can easily imagine plenty of reasons for Avid using their own format VST (stability, API integration, versioning, licensing, running on accelerated hardware, dealing with undocumented features, dependencies, etc.), it is not absurd

Is Gear Addiction Syndrome a form of insanity? Here is my vst collection.

What is Gremlins’ Music? watch or listen at Odysee

I’ve actually heard good things about Unify, but relying on it for all of those, given its an unnecessary layer of abstraction (albeit with some potential benefits) means if they ever discontinue it, or it becomes incompatible for whatever reason, the projects won’t open as they should. Natively using the plugins reduces the likelihood of that single point of failure. The problem has already been solved though and that’s just adopt a cross platform standard.

Most of the benefits you mentioned there also apply to VST. Every company could also create their own MIDI standards, or USB, etc. and there could be benefits for them like you mentioned. But those benefits are largely negated by the lack of compatibility.

If a developer needs to code plugins for VST and AAX, that increases the amount of work they need to do to create the plugins and doubles the amount of  regression testing needed. It also introduces more chance of errors due to more code and things not working the same across both.

I like being able to open up all my other audio applications and they all just simply work with my VSTs.  They’re widely adopted by almost all, apart from Pro Tools.

That’s why a single standard makes everyone’s life so much easier.