On the MOTU site, I saw a blurb announcing B4 for MAS... but when I clicked the link, NI's page referred only to VST. Is anyone using B4 with Digital Performer and MAS? If so, how? I love the sound of this software and will buy it in a heartbeat if it works with DP....

Doh! Never mind. This morning I found the blurb on Native Instruments' site abbouncing that all NI products will be shipping with MAS support, and that B4 is already good to go. Whoo hoo!

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That blurb on the website is a little misleading. Since Pro-52 is actually a Steinberg product (although it sure looks like an NI product on their website, and is treated as such), it will NOT have MAS support. I found this to be rather annoying. I'm running it with DP under VSTwrapper, and it works, but I find that statement to be rather annoying.

Jonathan

Craig Anderton's review of the Pro-52 in this month's EQ indicates that the software is made by NI but distributed by Steinberg. If that's the case, I would expect Pro-52 to follow NI's development strategy. Craig, do you know the story on this?

Jim Bordner
(formerly Gravity Jim

I had heard directly from NI that they weren't planning on supporting MAS in Pro 52 because it was a Steinberg product. Hopefully, that stance will change. I can't imagine that it would hurt sales of Cubase, since users of DP can run Pro 52 under VST or Pluggo, so it's not like anyone would switch over to Cubase, _just_ so they could run Pro 52 (I can't imgaine any reason why anyone would switch from DP to Cubase, but that's a topic for another discussion).

Jonathan