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Old 03-23-2015, 08:52 AM   #455
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Originally Posted by A_SN View Post
All that hoop jumping (what with the plugin signing and all that) just to cover an extra 3% of the market though... It's pretty amazing they manage to thrive despite all that lock-in when the rest of the market uses much more open common formats.
Not sure where you're getting your market percentages - by at least one measure (a Gearslutz favorite DAW poll for 2014/2015) Pro Tools still has about a ~14% market share. The Gearslutz poll suffers from the same problems that any forum poll does - it has pre-selection and self-selection bias, probably an insufficient sample size, and only reflects those that use DAWs AND use Gearslutz AND take the time to respond.

Note that the reported % for Pro Tools is higher than REAPER's, although not by a lot. Pretty much everyone's clock gets cleaned by Logic, which is only available on OS X...

If you have actual numbers to back up your statement, I'd be interested in seeing them. If it's just your opinion, then that's cool too, although you might want to state that instead of presenting it as a fact.

SAW/SAC's plugin format is perfectly open, as is LADSPA and LV2...yet I don't see all that many people developing for them. "Open" is no guarantee of success, just as "Proprietary" doesn't mean you'll fail.
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