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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Babcock" data-source="post: 41968" data-attributes="member: 46">Re: Plug-ins... TDM vs. Native... why the huge price difference?Tim, Avid is dumping TDM in favor of the new AAX standard.&nbsp; TDM was an old architecture and not very easy to develop for (required rather difficult low level programming).&nbsp; Native plugs tend to be much easier to develop.&nbsp; The new AAX architecture allows for DSP supported plugins on a similar code platform as native.As a result, you should see TDM prices falling as TDM will not be supported past the current version of ProTools (10).I have not heard what the plans are for Avid Venue consoles in terms of AAX support in the future, presumably the Mixrack type systems can be upgraded with a card (the SC48 may be more difficult), but regardless, there are tons of existing TDM plugins that are great and should increasingly show up on the used market in the next while.You may want to consider looking for used TDM plugins from places like KVR - <a href="http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=43" target="_blank">http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=43</a>Note that with Waves plugins there is separate program called &quot;D Show Enabler&quot; that you must buy (around $20) for their plugs to work on Venue systems.Hope that helpsJeff</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeff Babcock, post: 41968, member: 46"] Re: Plug-ins... TDM vs. Native... why the huge price difference? Tim, Avid is dumping TDM in favor of the new AAX standard. TDM was an old architecture and not very easy to develop for (required rather difficult low level programming). Native plugs tend to be much easier to develop. The new AAX architecture allows for DSP supported plugins on a similar code platform as native. As a result, you should see TDM prices falling as TDM will not be supported past the current version of ProTools (10). I have not heard what the plans are for Avid Venue consoles in terms of AAX support in the future, presumably the Mixrack type systems can be upgraded with a card (the SC48 may be more difficult), but regardless, there are tons of existing TDM plugins that are great and should increasingly show up on the used market in the next while. You may want to consider looking for used TDM plugins from places like KVR - [url]http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=43[/url] Note that with Waves plugins there is separate program called "D Show Enabler" that you must buy (around $20) for their plugs to work on Venue systems. Hope that helps Jeff [/QUOTE]

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