GuiliClayder wrote:
Still, Apple's not to blame, as they have been issueing warnings about the switch to 64-bit for years, so I find it surprising that most companies aren't ready yet. They should have been preparing for it for a long time, and I'm sure they've had access to beta versions of Catalina for a long time for testing purposes...
If you're a small independent developer, working alone or with a small team, I can understand that it's not always possible or easy to assign the necessary funds and people to develop a new version of whatever software you've developed, but for companies like Nord, Steinberg, Korg, etc., who have plenty of resources, there's no excuse for not being ready before, or at least on the day of Catalina's release.
No one's blaming Apple fror anything regarding the shift to 64bit only from Catalina on, but on the other no one can blame any other company for not being ready with 64bit versions of their software unless Catalina is officially released. There is justification to do so only when Catalina is available and the only option for customers buying new Macs.
Also how do you know that Nord has plenty of resources? According to my knowledge the whole company is less than 40 people. These 40 people develop and maintain 8 (!) different core products plus additional options, including
- manufacturing and shipping of the products
- firmware maintenance/updates for the current product lineup
- development and maintenance of software tools like Sound Manager, Sample Editor, Drivers and others (which is what this thread is about)
- development on the hardware level for future generations of the existing product lines and potentially new products
- creation/recreation of samples
- hardware maintenance and support
- sales, marketing and administration
- plus others I may have forgotten
Do you really think that less than 40 people is "plenty of resources" for a company like Nord (even if they may have outsourced some functions/levels of work which I would guess they did)? Given this situation I fully understand why Nord has to prioritize it's tasks and workloads and not spend time and tight resources on release (nota bene: I don't mean "development"!) of product revisions to support an operating system which has not yet been released.
Just to be clear, I'm not a Nord fanboy nor am I in any way related to or sponsored by Nord, but I worked for a number of tech companies both hardware and software (and still do so), therefore have a bit of insight in what it means for a company to professionally maintain such a product set. I therefore fully understand why Nord acts like they do and I think they do a fantastic job with the limited amount of resources, although I personally would also wish to get a lot of additional features on both the hardware/firmware and the software tools side of the game.
