| Aurora plugins are XFM modules, created for being use as "native" plugins of Adobe Audition (formerly CoolEditPro).
The XFM format was created by Syntrillium, the developer of CoolEdit, as their "native" plugin format.
Currently, if you explore the directory where Audition is installed, you will see dozens of files with the XFM extension, which perform most of the "effects" already coming with the standard Audition package.
From a technical point of view, an XFM plugin is simply a DLL (Dynamic Linked Library), with the extension changed from DLL to XFM. In practice, for developing these XFM plugins, a specific API (Application Programming Interface) must be employed. The CoolEdit/Audition API was originally available form the Syntrillium web site, but later Adobe dropped its availability, and so it is now not anymore officially possible to create new XFM modules.
And this is a pity, because the other formats for external plugins, such as Active-X (Microsoft) and VST (Steinberg), although supported by Adobe Audition, do not allow to perform many of the tricks made possible employing XFM plugins.
This is the main reason for which, albeit the XFM format is not anymore supported officially from Adobe, the Aurora plugins are still in XFM format, instead of having being recompiled as VST plugins.
It is still possible that, in the future, the Aurora plugins are ported in other formats. Some modules have been already ported under Audacity, for example, and are currently under Beta test.
Keep a look on this forum for the latest new about porting Aurora to other formats...
Edited by angelo.farina - 20/1/2011, 21:39
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