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Enhancements to Hauptwerk
Please contact us if you have any suggestions for enhancements to Hauptwerk. We only publish a few of the major enhancements planned for imminent releases on the website. We also maintain a large database of enhancements internally, with smaller enhancements released regularly in patches and maintenance releases. We try to ensure that all maintenance releases contain a good balance of functional, usability and performance enhancements, including enhancements that will be relevant to each of the various different types of Hauptwerk users.
64-bit Hauptwerk for Mac OS X Leopard. OS X 10.5 'Leopard' supports native 64-bit applications (*). Hauptwerk version 3 is fully supported on Leopard, but is not yet a 64-bit application on the Mac platform. Making a native 64-bit version of Hauptwerk for Leopard will allow more than 4 GB of sample data to be used, and thus allow extremely large sample sets to be used on the Mac platform.
(*) Although Leopard was originally publicised as being 64-bit throughout, unfortunately for us Apple announced shortly before Leopard's release that a major part of it (the 'Carbon API'), on which Hauptwerk relies indirectly for its user interface, would not be included in 64-bit form in the initial Leopard release. As of January/February 2008 it now seems highly unlikely that Apple will provide a 64-bit port of that part of OS X in a subsequent OS X version, so we need to wait for the multi-platform library that Hauptwerk uses for its interface to be ported from the Carbon API to the alternate 'Cocoa API', for which a 64-bit port does exist within Leopard. This port is being worked on as a matter of priority by the makers of the multi-platform library, but it's a large task, and it currently seems most likely that this will be ready in the second half of 2008. We expect to be able to provide a 64-bit version of Hauptwerk for OS X very soon after that 64-bit port of the multi-platform library is completed. We'll publish updates on the status of the 64-bit port as soon as we have any further news. For more technical information, please see this page and this page. Our apologies for this unexpected set-back and thank you for your patience.
Usability improvements. We will be putting lots more work into trying to make Hauptwerk easier and quicker to use and configure, based on feedback from users. In particular, we aim to make Hauptwerk's MIDI settings very quick and easy to configure, with little or no understanding of MIDI needed for most common cases.
Native impulse response reverb. We plan to provide a fully-optimised, fully-integrated native impulse response convolution engine for Hauptwerk, allowing 'real' room acoustics to be applied in real-time to dry pipe samples. As with Hauptwerk's main audio engine, it will be fully optimised for current and older processors, multi-core/multi-processor systems and 64-bit operating systems, and seamlessly integrated into Hauptwerk. This will make it very easy to apply high-quality real-time reverb to Hauptwerk's output.
AudioUnit/VST plug-in port on Mac OS X. This would allow Hauptwerk to be used as a plug-in within an audio/MIDI seqeuncer or virtual synth/effects rack host, as with the Hauptwerk VST plug-in for Windows PCs. It's possible to achieve the same result currently on OS X using virtual MIDI cable and/or virtual audio cable software, but a plug-in is often less fiddly to configure. These two forum posts give basic 'how to' guides for the virtual audio/MIDI cable approach in the meantime: How to apply real-time reverb plug-ins to Hauptwerk on OS X and How to record audio from Hauptwerk in Logic Pro 7.
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