I wonder how much extra work Apple is generating audio companies like Native Instruments.
I've been hoping for years that they would start supporting Linux, but I've settled with the fact that this won't happen.
If one year ago one would have asked NI if they plan to support ARM chips, they would probably have laughed at you, but I'm sure that they now have already started working on this, now that Apple has forced them to.
>I wonder how much extra work Apple is generating audio companies like Native Instruments.
Proportional to the business they expect to get from M1/Arm.
>I've been hoping for years that they would start supporting Linux, but I've settled with the fact that this won't happen.
They'd have to have their codebase already compatible by a huge percentage (like BitWig, which was a fresh start from ex-Ableton folks) for that to happen (that is, it would have to require minimal effort to do it as a good will gesture that costs them nothing to just build and offer for the ocassional buyer).
Else, it would be lots of effort not really justified by expected sales (as only a tiny share of musicians use Linux, and they're generally not the "buying commercial DAWs/VSTs types").
I know there’s already a decent amount of pro or at least “pro-sumer” audio production software on iPad. I don’t know if those are totally separate products and codebases from Intel PC, or if some of these companies have already done the work to make their stuff portable.
I've been hoping for years that they would start supporting Linux, but I've settled with the fact that this won't happen.
If one year ago one would have asked NI if they plan to support ARM chips, they would probably have laughed at you, but I'm sure that they now have already started working on this, now that Apple has forced them to.