implied that MusicBee (its developer) is not able to solve this for you since it is not commercial and paid-for software.Īgain, by phrasing it like this, you are implying that in principle each and every VST plugin should not only work on professional DAW studio software, but on consumer audio players as well. Posting and sharing with the community (and the developer) which ones work, or which ones don't is of course appreciated and can be useful.īut voicing being unhappy (or disgruntled or whatever) that some won't work, and complaining when that is the case and it can't/won't be addressed or solved for you is something else. (or maybe you know some that claim and advertise they will work perfectly on WinAmp/foobar2000/iTunes/MusicBee/et al. You are aware there are hundreds of them, right? Probably thousands.Īnd pretty much all of them are designed to be used in DAW studio production software. implied (and still do) that since there is a VST addon for MusicBee available, users should expect it to work perfectly with all sorts of VST plugins. Not to your satisfaction, but unless you think you have a deep and better technical understanding of everything involved, you could accept and appreciate the prompt responses on this forum. implied that the developer responded to your original post/request without him having a good understanding or having considered the underlying details. My responses to your posts were triggered because you: You really shouldn't feign being grateful if you aren't. I sincerely hope that we can settle this discussion now as I don't believe that it would take us anywhere useful anymore from here. Having said that, I certainly respect the fact, that FabFilter is a whole team with paying customers while MusicBee seems to be developed by one man and offered for free. Whatever the outcome is, and I personally think it is far more likely not to be the outcome I hope for, I feel valued as their user and customer. Furthermore, FabFilter currently looks into the bug report I raised with them and investigates whether they can do something with reasonable effort on their end - although my use case does not belong to those use cases these plugins are originally built for and although they suspect the VST host to not clear the cache.
And fortunately JRiver and Audirvana seem to be two other music players working fine with my preferred plugins. And as it is Steven's right to take no action upon my bug report without further explanation, it is my absolute right to be disappointed about that.Īpart from that, based on the decision made, and because the Saturn 2 plugin is important to me, I do exactly what even Steven himself told me to do, namely looking for an alternative to MusicBee. I can perfectly love MusicBee for all the great things it does (which I made absolutely clear in my posts I do) while recognising a bug which degrades my personal use case and looking for support. 2 days) and to ignore that potential bug because all the other great things with MusicBee. Totally up to you and genuinely fine with me whatsoever.īut I begin to get the impression, that you try to tell me that I have an obligation to be grateful for being "swiftly" turned down within 1h (as this would be any better than to be turned down after e.g. Steven, you or anyone involved can take that feedback as food for thought for improvement, dismiss it or ignore it entirely. So consider this as my open and honest feedback as one of your many users on the decision made and the communication style. And I articulated exactly that with all due respect.
Nevertheless, it was that response that left me disappointed.
because of my use case being rare or because of dependencies on legacy third party libraries. And the decision can be very reasonable from his point of view e.g. I genuinly hope that we can agree upon that this initial post of mine is anything but a complaint.ġh after posting my report Steven stated that he won't take any action on it without any explanation or rational. I've tried to write my report in a way to make it as easy as possible to reproduce the behavior as I have experienced it. So I compiled a bug report, encouraged by the section in this forum explicitly asking for it. So, of course, there is some expectations - or let's say hope - that it would perform with my preferred plugins.Īfter a while I found out that one of my favourite plugins seems to be not properly working with MusicBee. Thus, there is an indication for me as a user that MusicBee would support such use cases. However, MusicBee offers a VST host plugin. So I'm aware that VST plugins are initially not built for being hosted by music players. I'm perfectly familiar with what VST is or originally has been designed for. Ok, so once more, let's try to straighten things out.