For guitars, IK multimedia (amplitube), psp, Nomad Factory and NI for keyboard related stuff are my favorites; and they all have a long tradition.

Most of the stuff I use is pretty old, but it is more than enough for me

(Rock, Blues and Funk genres)

 

What was? Selling the company to Apple? I fail to see a "dick-move" here. They're a business, you know. Even when emagic went under and stopped supporting the PC platform, I didn't see the big problem with that. Logic 5.5.1 went on working for years after that... And Alchemy still works as far as I know.

 

I can see your reasoning, I, too had to migrate to MacOS and a G4 back in the day. A dick-move towards their users, sure. But from their perspective, it's a way to make money and keep their jobs. I don't expect developers to be in it purely for the community. As Heckmann had stated before - he is in this for the money, it's a business. Not that it is an excuse for them... But still. Probably had families to feed.

Btw, if you mean Emagic hardware, I still use my two Unitor-8s bought 14 years ago and an MT-4 from 2004. Apple/emagic guys have managed to keep them supported. And the upgrade path from Logic 7 has been dirt-cheap compared to other DAWs out there. In fact, what happened to Logic over the years is not so bad after all. Especially if you compare it to other apps Apple screwed with.

Thank God the Hackintosh scene came along in the Leopard days. I sold my G5 and moved to Hackintoshes ever since. And don't get me started on their piece-of-shit Macbook Pros here. I have quite a few bodies of those turds lying around. Ranging from pre-unibody to late unibody non-retina i7s. Dead. All of them. Pieces of overpriced GARBAGE.

 

Ahh, you're a legit user and have a positive support experience. I feel for you, I really do. Seldom do we get a great customer service these days!

I did put my camera's spare 480GB Sandisk Extreme Pro one into an old C2D pre-unibody MBP. Runs Yosemite like a champ, although SATA Gen1 can only get 140MB/Sec of reads and writes. But CPU power for DSP tasks is, of course, lacking. But daily tasks run great. Although it's a machine which has been repaired twice (Nvidia GPU issue). I actually prefer this machine to the unibody one in some respects. (DVI port being one of them).

You know what makes me really mad about the hardware design? This "Single PCB" design. I have a Compaq nw9440 17' laptop from circa 2006 as my home internet/email machine. It's a Core 2 Duo 2.33Mhz/4Gb/1920x1200/NvidiaQuadro512MbVRAM machine. Was about the same price as a middle-end MBP back in the day. BUT!!! Feature wise and design-wise it kicks major ASS. EVERYTHING has its own PCB. It has almost every port and feature one could want back in 2007. Literally everything, even smart-cards and dock-stations with Composite and S-Video outs and COM ports.

This machine is still going strong. It has a SOCKETED CPU and I've upgraded mine. It has an MXM-socketed video-card. It has dual-battery support.
I even got a spare machine on a flea-market for 60$ last month. In mint condition without the charger and battery. Swapped the worn-out case on mine and it's mint again.

Why? WHY CAN'T APPLE make something similar? They used to have ExpressCard back in the day... Okay, I don't need features. But please, give me MORE USB ports and make the god-damn machine SERVICEABLE!

Sorry I'm ranting. I'll shut up now... *mumble-mumble*

 

Ableton has excellent support.
Lennar Digital is also very fast considering they are (I guess) only staffed with 2.
Native Instruments is rather lousy.

 

Read my post on https://audiosex.pro/threads/waves-com-introducing-waves-central.21413/page-2#post-146906 for example...