icontakt
Yes, I know. But I believe users perceive Craig as being on the CW side. At least I do. So, although what he said was absolutely correct, it gave me the impression that CW was saying, "What do you guys think? But please don't say anything negative."

 
As Andrew pointed out, previews are not intended to ask people what they think but to accommodate those who want more advance notice of what's coming. In that context neither positive nor negative comments make much sense, because I tend to think opinions should be based on experience, not conjecture.
 
As to whose side I'm on, I've said before, I advocate on behalf of users to Cakewalk, and on behalf of Cakewalk to users. That's how I'm wired. Of course I think SONAR is great, I've used the software for 16 years and accomplished a lot with it. But the folks at Cakewalk will confirm that I can be very critical. Just ask them about my opinions, expressed both publicly and privately, about the Start Screen when it was first introduced, or the de-normalization problems with some of the PC plug-ins.
 
As to negativity, I have a problem with a lot of what f I read online, by no means only about Cakewalk, where people spout opinions about matters where they have zero experience. I've seen "reviews" on other sites where someone says something "sucks" based on reading a press release, for chrissakes.
 
I'm sick of the general negativity of the internet. If I was an alien civilization and my only knowledge of earth was reading the Comments sections on YouTube, I'd decide the universe would lose nothing by just blasting the place into oblivion .
 

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
I didn't think it was such a bad idea to give people a sneak preview of the features or the ezines ahead of time. I thought based on the past feedback it would be welcome. 

 
Either way people will complain. Those who want to know what's coming up will be upset if you stop doing previews. Speaking as a user, though, I would prefer having previews. Then again, I'm the kind of person who actually shows up at movies in time to catch all the previews.

Anderton
 
Either way people will complain. Those who want to know what's coming up will be upset if you stop doing previews. Speaking as a user, though, I would prefer having previews.

Totally agree and second the view point. I love previews. They help to provide a look ahead and to know what to expect (at least part of the whole monthly update package if not full). And I appreciate putting up a video for it which is a good idea in terms of giving users a direct view of how the feature works and how to use it. It sort of serves as a mini tutorial and helps being quickly prepared to be able to use it (if you need it, that is). One could of course choose not to use the new feature and keep doing things the old ways as convenient for the workflow. Its all a matter of having different options which is why I love Sonar for what it is and the way its developing.
 
I do personally like this Add track option though its a simple update but provides greater focus on the initial track settings and routing. Possibly because I use more of direct new track additions on a blank slate compared to many others who may prefer project and track templates to initiate the workflow.
 
Looking forward to more such preview feature videos for new stuff, especially the LP mastering updates, UI themes and Help module in the coming days / months... keep cooking bakers 

I love the word "vintage", which often means 'old with a disproportionately high price tag'. "Emulation" is not far behind, meaning "here you go, sucker, give me your money and let's pretend you now own the real thing"...

chilldanny
It seems some here have short memories.  It's not that long ago many of us were complaining that Cakewalk didn't keep us up to date with any new features/tweaks that were in development. 

 
If you are talking about the "2b or not 2b" period, I think I have better memory. People were complaining because CW didn't give any news for several months, not just one month. As I said, I appreciate the Future Updates section. I only questioned the need to release the preview video just a week or so before it is available to the users. But I've learned that all I need to do is not to click the preview thread or the link to the preview, no matter how tempting it is...

icontakt

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
I actually don't think that I've objected to any of the feedback that has shown up on this thread except the user that said SONAR had been neglected, which I didn't think was true at all.

 
Yes, I know. But I believe users perceive Craig as being on the CW side. At least I do. So, although what he said was absolutely correct, it gave me the impression that CW was saying, "What do you guys think? But please don't say anything negative."
 
 

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
I didn't think it was such a bad idea to give people a sneak preview of the features or the ezines ahead of time. I thought based on the past feedback it would be welcome. 

 
I think it depends on the feature and how helpful/completed it is. If you are very confident that the feature will be favored by the vast majority, then I guess it's worth creating and releasing the preview (although it will only excite viewers for a week or so). But if you think the feature is not fully implemented or missing something, you might want to reconsider it. As you can see, several posters in this thread are not happy with the feature, with a few questioning why it was prioritized and one posting a feature request in the F&I forum even before the feature is released(!). I actually wanted to post negative comments too, like "Why does the fly-out window has to be locked there?" "Why does it not allow us to create several MIDI tracks with different MIDI channels when we insert a multi-timbre synth like TTS-1 or Kontakt?" "Why can't we specifiy track colors?" etc. BUT, the opinions of these posters (including me) who are let down by the preview might actually change in the positive direction IF we try the feature ourselves. So, what does this one week mean for us? Updates come out on a monthly basis, which is good enough. I hope CW will let users concentrate on learning how to use the features and contents released in the previous month and making music without interrupting them with this preview thing and its associated thread.

Duly noted. Thanks for the feedback!

Anderton
At the time, I too was using S-100 bus computers because I did marketing/advertising for Godbout Electronics, which later became CompuPro.

My first real computer was a CompuPro S-100 machine.  It was huge.  64k static ram.  2-8" floppies in a separate case. Z80, CP/M, Scion graphics, 300 baud modem.  10,000 $  !!   I had to build a ttl circuit to interpret the weird serial protocol of the ibm pc keyboard before being able to use it.  Wrote my own bios for it.  Memories of Byte magazine and Jerry Pournelle...