Jeslan

I agree that we are living in the opposite to an ideal world but that's no excuse at all regarding the kind of awareness I was trying to convey. Actually quite the opposite, more reason to be more aware, compassionate and caring on the personal and individual level. Because that is all that is left in a world like the one we live in. In fact the reason we are in a world so heartless like this is because most people themselves allow the world to be in this state. Because even if you actually can't do a thing about those in power and making the rules, empathy and caring comes from within oneself, in the end that is a personal choice. So it is when we comply as individuals on becoming careless and heartless, because it is easier or because other's act like this, using poor excuses to justify and feel better about ourselves when human interaction becomes the sh*t show it is. Actually how this thread has been going on is a perfect example of how it's in our hand the choice to do things better even in the smaller things and to be more compassionate and caring. Which in the end it will apply to literally hundreds of other situations during our daily lives. So all it is needed to improve the world at that level is to raise awareness about things we don't realize we do wrong at first glance and take that personal choice to be more caring and compassionate next time.

You are not alone thinking in those terms. (First of all I want to make clear I am not related in any way to the developer in question. Just someone that really knows how hard is to cope with life in that kind of circumstances) And to be honest the entire thread is extremely sad to read. I can understand people paying for something not delivered to be upset. But that is no excuse to the complete lack of empathy and caring about others conditions and life circumstances (both related to health and financial terms). Even to the point of showing a brutal total ignorance on those issues that borders plain stupidity like shown in the previous comment to this. It's incredibly sad people don't care a sh*t about others and their circumstances for real as much as their life is normal enough and until it's one of them or a loved one that gets caught in hard life circumstances. And in this case, treating someone and appling the same way of judging like if it was a well established company with money and people working normal schedules to a solo developer really struggling financially and specially with mental health issues that are incredibly debilitating to the point of rendering you unable to do anything for long periods of time with serious mood changes that obviously affect your capacity to work in a normal and efficient way, like if he had to deliver the very same way is both unfair as sad. For instance, for someone struggling like this developer, to read such heartless comments about yourself and your work in a thread like this during one of the common very low peaks can easily be the last push for your mind to think "that's it, I am done. I can't take anymore" that could easly lead to suicide (like social networks have proved over and over by now). Are you still waiting for something to be delivered and are upset ? That's completely ok. Are you not interested in his work anymore ? That's ok too. What it's NOT ok is that there is no need at all to go and tell the world about it in the way shown here. In fact the only true outcome that comes from comments like those is to predispose others to think and act in those same lines for the only sake of a bunch of strangers on a forum writting this. Something that only helps making life harder for someone whos life is already hard. EDIT: I just want to make sure that I am not here to defend this person specifically, but trying to bring some insight about the kind problem shown in this thread.

@TheSteven - Well, I am afraid I can't be of much help as my memory sucks and last time I was able to put myself to play around with music was about a year ago more or less. But in my overall experience playing around (nothing serious truth be told) with it I found many times I tried to use Metaplugin there was something making it unusable for what I intended. For instance last time it was trying to use a VST3 plugin that can't remember the name right now that crashed Metaplugin. I was trying to use Metaplugin so I could use it on Renoise which doesn't have VST3 plugin support. I ended relying on Element for the same task as it worked as expected. Usually it is "little" things like this. Although the biggest issue I have found and impossible to forget is related to Metaplugin breaking completely the freeze function on the DAW I was using (Waveform 9) and affecting in a more random way the similar related function on Renoise. This was when Waveform 9 was released. I got back then Metaplugin because being used to having modular VST chains in Tracktion natively I was interested in having that same functionality on any DAW. Weird thing is the freeze functionality worked perfectly with the Metaplugin version released when I bought it. But soon after there was an update that changed things at the core (allowing for instance lot more outputs and things like that). After another long time without being able to play around with music ended discovering last versions of Metaplugin had the bug that caused my DAWs to break freeze. Reported to the developer and received an email that it was noted. But each time I tried since then the problem was still there and the only way for me to work would be using that very old version of Metaplugin previous to the change. With that said I am not saying Metaplugin is not a great piece of software, don't get me wrong. Just that I have had more time fighting little problems than being able to use it for music related stuff. Obviously it is a software lot more mature and prepared for more professional use than Element. I don't think they can't compare at that level (maybe it could have in the future if Element would have succeeded). Anyway, to be completely honest I tend to have a lot of bad luck in relation to computers and end spending most of the time solving issues that simply shouldn't happen in the first place than spending it on doing actual stuff. So It doesn't need to be yours or other people experience and really hope it's not. By the way, sorry for the wall.

Last update is from mid october, so it is not entirely abandoned. Funny thing is I have found lot more trouble and problems trying to use Metaplugin in terms of compatibility than I have with Element, to the point of Metaplugin ending being almost unusable for me in a lot of situations with the software and plugins I use. Which is strange because as I said I was able to work with Element with no problems.

I would like to notice that you guys also have the free and opensource Kushview - Element which basically works the same as DDMF - Metaplugin. In fact I got Metaplugin a couple years ago and last time I tried to use it with some vsts it made them crash but was able to use Element instead with those same plugins like a charm. As I said Element is completely free and you even can get the source code although you always can support the developer through Patreon to get the installers and binaries for the very last versions.