More appropriately, the Apple guys don't/didn't care about Sounddiver. :) ----- Original Message ----- From: <grove@zeta.org.au> To: <sounddiver-users@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 4:08 PM 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 > > -- > Rachel Polanskis Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, > Australia > grove@zeta.org.au http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html > The price of greatness is responsibility. > > ------------------------------------ > > ________________________________________________________________________ > SoundDiver Users Group - new forums! http://logic-users.org/forums/SD > - To UNSUBSCRIBE: email sounddiver-users-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > - Search the entire archive: http://logic-users.org/forums/SD/searchYahoo! > Groups Links > > > > ------------------------------------