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studiodaz,
You're welcome!

I should probably have said "no current plans".

Thanks for that Thomas. Much appreciated.

Shame the source code can't be opened - though I do understand why.

Can I be a little cheeky and ask if you'd consider releasing the PoCo SDK for free?

I'd love it if home-brew plugs could be constructed for PoCo. I'm sure a documented DSP platform would interest hackers too.

Last edited by InactiveX (2011-01-20 20:18:49)

I can live with this -

I just want to keep using VSS3, MD3 and Dynamic EQ .... they are so unique and in a class of their own.

If TC can get fully working W7 64 drivers ..... that will give me another 5+ years of use, which would be great.

By that point I will feel I have fully had my monies worth out of my Poco 6K.

I am hoping TC are as good as their word and look forward to 4.3
After all 3.2 was a great driver for XP, so they have proved they can do it!

tmy

Last edited by themarqueeyears (2011-01-20 20:30:12)

Thomas,

Thanks for the clarification.

I am disappointed to hear that there is no chance of you porting these excellent plugs to native. If that means they will appear on the UA platform, then I guess my question is - how long before UA's time is up? With the rate that native computing power is increasing, we all know it is a question of 'when'. And when that time comes, you'd dump your customers in the brown stuff again. Not nice.

Me? I have made my decision to keep using my poco6000 till it dies. It could be as soon as this summer when Apple releases Lion. Perhaps a little longer. Then I'll hang it on my wall as a reminder to never go DSP again. It will spend the remains of its days as an ironic and expensive installation.

Meanwhile, I am researching Algorithmix, Izotope, Sonnox, Softube and other high end native plug makers. I like what they have. I ain't going UA's direction.

Thanks for trying.

p.s. Frankly, I think your UA crossgrade offer hurts you more than it helps.

peteteo,

You're welcome.

I understand your disappointment - the decision is of course up to you.
Also, I appreciate your support for Poco 6000, my favorite, too.
It won't die before you decide to upgrade, anyway. That's also your decision ;-)

Kinda like the pile of old scsi drives and $150 4 mb simms I can't seem to toss in the trash.  Early adoption is not for the weak minded or weak walleted.

I paid about $350 for my PoCo express about a year ago. At the time my purpose for buying it was a really cheap way to get access to a Virus synth. However, over time I have discovered that the basic PoCo package is extremely powerful and full-featured. The bundled plugins pretty much blow away what you get with a stock UAD card. The Character and MasterX3 plugins are well worth the cost of the card alone. The demos for other plugins are also much more useful on PoCo than they are on the UAD platform. Instead of being restricted to a fixed time period (14-days), PoCo demos give you a set number of hours to run each plugin. The hours only countdown when the plugin is actually loaded. If you're smart and manage your projects well you can 'demo' a plugin for months or even years.
As long as you can get it working well in your current setup, I think you still got a bargain.

-e.B

Thanks for this Thomas. 

The main thing that I hope is that I can continue to use my Powercore for some time, and that when the day comes when this is no longer possible then I would like to be able to use the same great processes with the new technology.

It sounds like the UA route is being considered?  Although I appreciate that you would not want to announce any considerations since I remember how much trouble that has got you guys in the past!

Well if this is the case, or indeed any other possible future platforms for our favourite plugins - then I hope you very strongly consider a very fair crossgrade that takes into account your loyal customers.  The word 'free' has been liberally used on the last thread, and I see in SSL's case that they are going down that road which is a very good move in terms of customer relationships.  This would of course be the best situation for us as customers.

But let me just say with some degree of reason for both sides of the story that I would at least be prepared to pay a 'small fee' to transfer my licenses to another platform, of course bearing in mind the costs also involved in purchasing new hardware to run them on.  If I had to actually buy the licenses over again, even with a discount, I would probably find alternatives.

Thanks again for a more definite and comprehensive answer.

Last edited by HueJahFink (2011-01-20 21:14:36)

mg,

Thanks, I agree; guess the "case-by-case" frase didn't work. Didn't want to set expectations too high, and I'm happy that things are more clear now.

From the moment we considered to cease further (let's say "long term") development on Poco, UA was not really a competitor anymore, where they?

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DiScO,

You're welcome - it is company policy to be able to repair for a very long period.

Thanks for the input also e.B.  This is pretty much what I was hoping for.  Also, Thomas' post about fixing the win 7 drivers is reassuring too.  I've got two projects right now that I can give it a fairly rigorous test with, pending a successful install, of course.

tune286,

You're welcome, my pleasure.

At this point we can't say if PowerCore will be compatible with e.g. Lion (OSX 10.7). We hope so, but we can't guarantee it; we simply don't know. And that's what the announcement is all about: no guarantees.

If Poco is not compatible, we will not develop a Lion compatible driver; if it is compatible, hey, that's great!

Same with Windows, same with hosts.