OS Update

dasz · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:28 am Post subject:

And my G2's were glorious last night. 16 DSP's running in sync.

Will post link to video of the show. It was quite a night. My first live PA set. Just amazing. Hearing my stuff on a good PA system was something else.

Good night.
/Dasz

dorremifasol · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:18 am Post subject:

Congratulations Dasz! I hope to see a video of the event Very Happy

Kassen · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:08 am Post subject:

v-un-v · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:37 am Post subject:

I'm assuming Autechre use a G2? I wasn't really passing comment on the G2, more on the Juno 106, and the 106 merely being passed off as a 'crap synth'. I may also have interpreted XpanderXT's comment wrong- as when I read it again, it came across differently- in more of a positive way.

Either way, it's not the fault of the instrument, but the fault of the person behind it- and I'm not talking about Clavia.

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Wout Blommers · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject:

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XpanderXT · Joined: Oct 22, 2007 Posts: 137 Location: the flat universe

Kassen · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:02 am Post subject:

....At which point I feel compelled to point out that Mc Donalds is generally considered to be what one calls "fat".

I also have to point out I don't really like "gourmet" type food. It's not so much that it's bad food but typically it's disproportionately expensive and you have to wait a long time before it's done. Once it finally arrives there is a lot of emphasis on the presentation but when you are done going "wow" at the lay-out you realise the plate is almost empty and if you don't stop by Mc Donalds later on that night anyway you will still be hungry.

Me, I like to cook for myself. I'm quite particular about this. I tend to only use a heavy cast-iron wadjang on a very high fire. Without the high fire and a sense of danger it's no fun to me, it's essential that I must be doing at least two things at the same time at all times and it always must involve the largest knife around (once, much to my delight, I cooked in a kitchen that had a actual machete present). I tend to use a lot of hot spices yet not sample it before it's done and to me it's important that cooking must be done within the time span of one side of a 33RPM record. This has a few advantages to me. For one thing I can make a large pan, when I'm hungry I'll cook and eat what I think is a normal amount for two parents and a child and I can make it as spicy as I want, something restaurants don't tend to dare (aside from one Thai place I once went to which had scales of hotness that went up to 35, with "5" being hot for a normal Thai dish), it also feels "fast", more so then even fast-food where waiting is involved, I hate waiting. It's also surprising, I like picking stuff at the shop based on whim and see what I end up with,

This is, admittedly, overly dramatic, smaller knives, cutting vegetables before putting the pan on and less heat would decrease the danger of chopping off fingers or setting off fire-alarms once the sambal hits the the oil, but it's what I like so that's what I do.

;¬)

kcinsu · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:27 am Post subject:

Kassen · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:15 am Post subject:

I wrote a long post here, then remembered why I used a analogy and edited it down to this. Instead I'll quote a bit from a old game book;

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Kassen · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject:

XpanderXT · Joined: Oct 22, 2007 Posts: 137 Location: the flat universe

ersatzplanet · Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Posts: 65 Location: Seattle, WA, USA

I have just read this thread after last reading it when it was first posted. It is very sad that things have not changed since then. It is apparent many current owners (though not all) are pretty upset.
I feel that the market for hardware synths is getting harder. Profits are low. I would think this fact would spur Clavia into considering the possibility of making some money from it's current base of Modular users. I don't know about most of you but I personally would pay typical software update prices for a major update of the G2's software. Since this sort of thing is a high profit route I cannot understand why Clavia hasn't moved in that direction. How many NM and G2 systems are out there? What percentage of their owners paying $100-200 or so for updated software would it take to make it a worthy business proposition. Even making $50 or so for a minor "here's a few extra modules" update would make Clavia some high profit cash flow.
How much would you pay for a major software update?

Kassen · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:07 pm Post subject:

kcinsu · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject:

I would pay for an update...

people update software... so why not hardware?

These things are investments! Dedicated hardware, that cost a fair share. of COURSE I would pay more to see my investment/instrument grow and solidify.

blue hell · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject:

I'd pay for an update I guess, but probably not all people would. It might tear the user base apart that way, we now can all use each other's patches - that might end. Otoh, although we can use each other's patches we can't use each other's performances always ...