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Comment by rock_artist | Hacker News Reader

I'm a former full-time musician working as an audio dev those days.

Developing audio-plugins (AU) make you use a lot of DAWs (digital-audio-workstations). There's some issue with Logic Pro X that has been logged for quite a while now.

A few days ago I heard the reason it isn't addressed for more than a year now... The developer in-charge on that feature isn't allowed to access other parts of code needed for fixing the issue.

Apple quality-control in the past years has been totally wracked. What concerns me isn't this issue, but the future of it: - it might won't be fixed at all! (arghghgh) - it might be fixed after very long time (and who know maybe they'll break or regress something else).

Did you ever come across how they map parameters inside the VST/AU standard? Everyone else does 0 -> 1. They do 1 -> 120 or something completely boffed.

I'm not surprised given Logic's legacy baggage from the days eMagic was an independent company. Everything was stored in an event list, which would try to fit many things into MIDI-like terminology. Not surprised if they tried to quantize parameters for software instruments the way they would for hardware instruments, and this has stayed the case almost two decades later.

AFAIK it‘s 1 to 127 because of MIDI.

I distinctly remember it being not the MIDI standard, and it was really frustrating. I'll report back if I look at it again.

I've used Logic since 2004 and quite frankly in its current state it seems Apple is barely keeping it alive for old users much like Motion which hasn't seen a major release since 2011.

Logic actually got some great improvements and it's one of the best value for money product out there.

- They bought Camel Audio and got Alchemy. - They've added more nice instruments to their arsenal. - They did a UI redesign. - They've add ARA2.

Compare those updates to other mature products (Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Cubase) it's not bad.

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