Transition to AAX: A Real Programmer's Perspective

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Originally Posted by b1daly

This thread highlights a subtext that is strange. Setting aside Avid's revenue needs for the sake of discussion, why put so much effort into developing a PCI based DSP platform? Five times the power of an HD card is still a lot less than an average CPU. An alternative path would be push PT forward as a native platform, putting effort into solving the problems inherent in that approach, mostly keeping latency low enough for the various tracking scenarios.
As it stands, I'm having a hard time seeing a significant benefit to the user or developer in taking on the extra expense of DSP supported AAX plugins.

Here's the mistake that those who aren't in large production facilities make - native simply is not as fool proof, reliable and as predictable as DSP based solutions.

Facilities like post houses, broadcast, film sound, etc have very different needs than your average studio owner or hobbyist. These DSP based solutions fill that gap.