On 2/6/05 6:49 am, "Paul Najar" <paulnajar@...> wrote: > I agree with Dennis. The writing is on the wall with Logic's node > computing. I bet they could allow third party plugins to use the node > thing now if they wanted but they're trying to sell more copies of > Logic so who can blame them. If I were apple I would do the same "for a > while at least" also. Yeah but surely, as you need a copy of Logic to run the Node system at all, opening the node system up for third party plug ins could only help to sell more copies of Logic? I'm thinking in particular of people who have many third party plugs that they rely on far more than ANY plugs built into the host (be that host Logic, Cubase or whatever) and therefore would just love to get their hands on the host that helps them run the most instances of their third party plugs. Personally I like quite a few of the native Logic plugs, especially for less up front stuff like layered backing vocals etc, but the most CPU hungry things on my system are mostly VI's like Sampletank, Trilogy, Stylus RMX, Ivory. The ability to run the processing of these on another machine, even if that meant installing their actual samples on the other machine, would be a huge improvement. I'm sure the technology COULD be tweaked so that the actual engine and authorisation remained on the host machine, making the second machine useless on it's own and therefore pacifying the VI software houses who are worried about single users ending up with more than one machine with their plugs on....although ironically, looking at the list I've given above, every one of those plugs can legitimately be installed on more than one machine (either two or three, product dependant) with just one licence. Seems like Apple are just being over paranoid to me. That said, I seem to remember that when Node technology was first announced, I highly respected and creative author of many well used sample libraries who contributes to this list, took a great deal of convincing that the technology did not amount to the same as being able to use the samples on two machines at once so maybe Apple's caution is justified. When they have had the time to make sure that the plug in companies "get the idea" maybe we'll see what we are waiting for.....and if I were Digidesign, I'd hope it never happens!!