richie wrote:Hopefully all the work in publicizing this won't be in vain Fanu.
Cheers Rich.
Hopefully not. All I know for now is that Pete and Geoff are silent about it.
Just want to try and enhance the product.
I was a hater or if I didn't care, I wouldn't do it to this extent.
Thing is…I've always been critical towards the stuff I use the most.
I've been super critical towards Ableton, also in public, and even written a blog post about how Pro Tools beats it mixing-wise as well as shot tons of suggestions their way. That got shared a bit, so the pressure was on Ableton. Being critical to the max is good.
And I've received thanks for that from them. And I don't mean your typical "Thanks for your feedback", but a personal thank-you email from a team member who said a lot of my stuff towards them has raised a lot of fruitful internal discussion among the company, which is good, and some of the stuff I've kicked their asses about is now on beta stage. Can't say more.
I definitely am not saying I'm a music tech Jesus, but I make tons of music and put devices to heavy use, which roots out bugs as well as finds out the annoyances. You gotta use the stuff a lot and also look at things from a certain angle to get to the root of that. That angle comes from experience of having used stuff a lot, and I can say, if I had been in the Akai team, I would've sent tons of criticism their way and advised them about some critical features.
I've offered this to Akai re: MPC, but haven't got into the team. Whatever
Anyways, this is not about me, so no more about that. Just about the MPC and its future.