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My point though was that their is an avenue which is available for developers to get access to the new file format- Otherwise, the 5.0 session format is always available. It surprises me that Tascam did not incorporate it into the MX2424.
I think the contention of monopolistic business practices is a bit dramatic, And I do not recall other vendors openning the doors for their respective file formats to be readable by others.
Akai, Roland and Fairlight come to mind at the moment....
charles maynes
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Actually. It was digidesign who went back on an agreement with Fairlight to allow direct import and export from fairlight to pro-tools. And they had to remove the option in future sofwtare releases. And it was imoprt export of version 4.3. I had conversations about this with fairlight directly.
The encryption serves one purpose. And that is to create a closed sytem, to prevent crossplatform compatability. Same reason for not having any kind of crossplatform conversion available, like AES31.
Av-transfer allows transfer to and from various formats tpo fairlight, as does the program MediaMagic. Except that with media magic you are again stuck with 5.0 transfers. Which I guarantee Digi will stop supoporting in the Near future. Thus leaving absolutely no way to be cross platform compatible.
In also can't help but think that the $500,- pricetag to unlock the Digitranslator tool built into the current versions of Pro-Tools is another way of discouraging users to have access to it. As it would again allow a much easier cross platform for people not using Protools.