On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:46:31AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Please don't take me wrong. If you knew how many requests we Pro Tools users > have made of the paid DigiDesign programming staff, and how few had been > filled, you would understand that my comments are maybe not quite as > negative as you might have taken them. ;-) Amen. Related anecdote: I used to own a Yamaha SU700 looping sampler, a very powerful but difficult and ultimately frustrating box. I met a Yamaha rep at the AES show a year or two ago, and he was demoing the RS7000 which replaced the SU700. I mentioned that one of my big complaints with the SU700 is that you have to stop all output while sampling so it's impossible do any on-the-fly sampling or work in realtime with live musicians. He cut me off and said "No audience wants to watch you sample" and had no interest in what I wanted to do with their samplers. This was the last straw for me. There was an active SU700 user's group online and we had a whole list of feature requests for Yamaha. Several members were in repeated contact with people at Yamaha. We got nowhere with them. They just didn't care. Their attitude was that after all the R&D money they'd spent, they knew what we needed and we had to like it or lump it. After this experience I resolved that I would never again buy any "closed" device. I don't care about the money anymore; give me free as in freedom! I've been really impressed overall with how much linux audio developers care about their end users and are willing to work with them. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's SUPERIOR RIGHTEOUS PROFESSOR! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)
