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It's a little hard to know what reasonable is - if you ask my wife (given nearly 5 months of pretty solid work) she would say $39 was nowhere near enough 🙂
$800 is over the top but I guess not if you have dumped a lot of resources into it only have one sale 🙂
I remember thinking when I wrote my first donationware app (and money was not the motivator) that if just 10% of users paid $10 - woo hoo. What I should have thought was if just 10 users paid $10 - how good would that be 🙂
I don't know what reasonable is and I'm sure it differs for each individual?
We are thinking of trying to have the PT stuff as an additional feature that you pay for if you want it rather than jacking up the price for all but then I've already someone wanting to just buy the modules that they use - go figure.
We thought originally that $99 was a fair price but that got as all but nowhere so we purposely dropped it for a while to $39 and 2 dozen sales is not really enough to really even contemplate continuing the project 😞
Despite what it seems luckily money wasn't the aim of this project - and just as well 
- and so we bat on.
I am open to suggestions but we are contemplating the PT functionality being somewhere between $99 & $149 its just that there has been and is so much work. We also have a pile of requests for additional DAW support so I'm hoping that we haven't got this whole thing wrong and that there is a need for a (reasonably priced) product like this.
I don't expect everyone to by this product - would be nice though 🙂 - as I said before I don't use it because I don't have a need for a product like this - I'm just hoping the need is greater than it looks at the moment.
Besides, someone has to keep the other guys honest 🙂
PS I hope this doesn't come across sounding like a PITA Aussie - you really have to get to meet me to know that 😉
We will be putting out a 'limited' PT version in a few days. The plan (cunning in its simplicity) will allow buyers to import PT5 files for the current $39USD price but will be limited by a relatively generous track/clip/audio file limit.
But wait there's more 
We will also throw in Sony Vegas XML import support as well (thanks Mark Wippey (UK) for his request and input). The Vegas XML has much more detail than the Vegas EDL/TXT.
Much better than throwing in a set of steak knives and a block of flats in Tasmania 
The next version of AATranslator is almost ready - it will read all versions of CEP & AA from CEP1.2 plus export to Presonus 'Capture' XML and we also added a few fixes etc to the Cubendo import.
We have been chipping away at reading OMF for some time (in between versions of AAT) along with reading AVID log files and writing OpenTL files.
Hopefully some of these will make the following release.
And no, no Super DAW - I like Audition too much 
RonNovy wrote:
Maybe Adobe should buy you guys out (or buy a license) and offer the complete AATranslator package as part of Audition... It would make a nice addition to the application don't you think?
Hmm... I can't see that Adobe's 'competitors' would exactly see that in the same light...
It's okay (well, more than okay really) for somebody to produce something like this on a freelance basis, because that isn't Adobe rubbing everybody else's nose in it - but for Adobe to adopt it formally would probably be rather more than the competition (if that's what it is) would probably tolerate.
Quite frankly I'm amazed that Suite Spot hasn't had a 'cease and desist' letter from those ProTool idiots' lawyers anyway - but if Adobe were to do this, I'm pretty sure that they'd get the hawks onto it immediately.
Hmm... Would the session files the program saves be property of the company that wrote the software? I do believe you would have ownership of your own creation no matter what form it is in. I mean you wouldn't pay royalties to Adobe for music you mixed and mastered using Audition right?
A translator is pretty much just converting your work from one form to another on your own storage space, but again it is still your work no matter what form it's in. Does providing a translator to users break some copyright laws? I highly doubt it... As long as you don't dissassemble the program or use their code I doubt it breaks any laws to read/write work that doesn't belong to the software company. And I don't think it matters who the translator is written by because it's still user created data being translated and not property of the software companies. But I guess it's probably better left to a third party developer or group of developers...
If you don't own the data within a file, can you really own the format it is stored in? I can understand patenting complicated algorithms like MP3, but I'd hate to have my simple bits and bytes of data held hostage by some company that knows nothing of my buisness or creative works...
Arg... It's all too confusing now... I think I'll take a nap. 
I think if a legal solution to stifle competition was viable PT wouldn't have encrypted their session files from v5.1
But hey what do I know - I'm just trying to help people and get filthy rich! Well at least (I think) the first part is working 
Even if you are in the right you can still get starved into submission with court costs.
I don't think Adobe should be buying me out (though its a nice thought) I think they lose enough money with their own software
This market is not a very big market and you can see by the focus of (more or less) Avid/ProTools by the latest version of ProConvert that there is not enough money to put effort into these other formats.
If I was thinking about setting up a business to feed myself - this would not be the market to get into.
If I had a dollar for everyone who has told me how much money I was going to make converting PT I would have made more money than actually selling the product.
But seriously no company in their right mind wants their customers to be able to move their data to another DAW - they may not come back is what they think.
Sigh... Anyway its been a big day in the studio (and luckily THAT makes money) so its back to mixing (audio & bourbon) 
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