New Pro Tools plugin format: AAX

[TwistedLemon]

Great !
Can't wait ! (but I will patiently )

[RiphRaph]

Hi Jules,
Any news about it?
Do you have an estimated time frame for when the AAX format will be ready?
Thanks

[jules]

Sorry, have been distracted a bit in the last couple of weeks by other work, but it's ongoing!

[Mikey]

I did notice there was an AAX wrapper in the tip code. I took a peek inside and found it marvelously concise.

[valhallasound]

I did notice there was an AAX wrapper in the tip code. I took a peek inside and found it marvelously concise.

That's exciting news! I'll have to download the tip later today.

Sean Costello

[Mikey]

I did notice there was an AAX wrapper in the tip code. I took a peek inside and found it marvelously concise.

That's exciting news! I'll have to download the tip later today.

Sean Costello

Hold on Sean. It's an empty file. I was being a smart-aleck.

[valhallasound]

I did notice there was an AAX wrapper in the tip code. I took a peek inside and found it marvelously concise.

That's exciting news! I'll have to download the tip later today.

Sean Costello

Hold on Sean. It's an empty file. I was being a smart-aleck.

See, you shouldn't have told me that. That would have been an amazingly dry joke.

Sean Costello

[Harrie Munnik]

I saw some post that new AAX plugins REQUIRE the pace-protection scheme? Is this true?

[Quentin]

Pro tools will only accept AAX plugins signed with certificate via "PACE tools" but not necessarily protected with "PACE tools".

[Harrie Munnik]

Pro tools will only accept AAX plugins signed with certificate via "PACE tools" but not necessarily protected with "PACE tools".

Thanks for clearing that up. I'll look in the dev site of protools.

Harrie

[PaulTapper]

This is great news Jules! Are you able to give us a rough ETA for when the AAX wrapper might be available?

We've got to try to judge whether to implement one ourselves internally, which we'd obviously rather avoid if you're doing one yourself, but if its going to be months and months then we may need to just get on with it ourselves - it seems to be something the users are very keen on getting. I think Avid have done a great marketing job on it.

Paul

[jules]

I can't give you an ETA, and I'm currently juggling work on AAX with other things.. I'd like to start publishing what I've got pretty soon though, so if you want to speed things up, you might be able to help with it (which I suspect would work out quicker for you than writing your own version..)

[PaulTapper]

> I'd like to start publishing what I've got pretty soon though, so if you want to speed things up, you might be able to help with it

Yes - that would definitely be an option.

Roughly when do you think you'll be ready to publish what you've got & what areas do you imagine might still need some working on / will have been implemented by then?

[jules]

Roughly when do you think you'll be ready to publish what you've got & what areas do you imagine might still need some working on / will have been implemented by then?

Will try to get something out within a week, but no promises!

[PaulTapper]

Great. Please could you post in this thread when you've published it and we'll get it down. Ta.