Re: Altiverb 7.2.0 finally for WINDOWS!!!!!!
2014/04/11 10:31:41
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They are a small team and they also are a bit... Mactarded.
You sometimes see issues from Mac centric shops because their programmers don't understand Windows and so the way they go about things doesn't work well with Windows systems.
Audioease has always been that way. Heck, the name of their product declares it "Altiverb". It was a reference to "Altivec" which was what Apple christened the SIMD extensions in the PPC 7400 series chips. The addition of vector math made it feasible to make convolution reverb in software, which is just what they did. However they were pretty enamored with it and said that "only the G4 is powerful enough to run this!" which of course wasn't true, Intel CPUs had vector math extensions for some time and indeed later Altiverb got ported to Windows.
So that heritage kinda sticks around with them, and their Windows development is still lacking.