Q: Which software products are unsupported?
A: The following software products are unsupported, and you should use them only at your own risk:
- DualComp
- Convolver
- MissWatson
- PluginCore
A: By popular demand, the latest released versions of these software products will remain available on this website. You can download them from the "Unsupported Software" links on the sidebar of this page.
Q: Why is this software unsupported?
A: In the case of DualComp and Convolver, these plugins never worked nearly as well as I would have liked, and I simply do not have time to go through and rewrite them. MissWatson has been relicensed and I am not permitted to release additional updates for it.
More specifically, I was never able to get DualComp's linear interpolation algorithm working well enough not to sound scratchy when ducking the input signal. Also, the compression algorithm used in this plugin was a bit unconventional and not well-liked by most producers.
Convolver has loads of bugs in the user-interface, and cannot load large impulse response files. Small impulse responses work fine, but using large files requires a block-wise processing algorithm which I have not been able to get working properly.
The exclusive rights for MissWatson have been purchased by a third-party company, and due to the terms of our licensing agreement, the official 1.0 release offered on this website shall be the last version made available to the general public. Unfortunately, I am unable to provide additional features, bugfixes, or support for this software.
PluginCore has been discontinued in favor of the Juce framework. See this blog post for more details about this transition.
Update: Since I get so many requests about MissWatson, I wrote up a little guide about how to write your own VST host in C++. Most of the people who contact me would probably not find the default distribution MissWatson to fit their needs anyways, so this guide should help you to support VST plugins in your application.
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4 comments:
Can you tell me who has the exclusive rights to MissWatson now?
I'd rather not, since the company is a bit protective about their IP resources and I don't want to get into trouble with them. :)
is there a way to get a misswatson version for linux?
thanks
Sorry, MissWatson only runs under OSX and Windows, since these are the two platforms where VST is best supported. To get VST's working under linux, you'd need to run them through Wine, which is not always so reliable.
But since you'd need Wine installed anyways, you might as well try running MissWatson under Wine, too. ;)
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