Heavier7Strings demo version out today!

3 months since the release of Heavier7Strings and being recommanded by Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater and Neil Zaza, Heavier7Strings DEMO VERSION is avaiable now! Download at 
 
Three-Body Technology proudly presents Heavier7Strings, a real-time playable sample-based virtual instrument thats brings back Heavy Metal to your productions. Equiped with a complete effect rack and a patterns library, this metal-style guitar library has everything you need!
The love for music, and a desire to create innovative studio technology was the mainspring that made Heavier7Strings possible. With total of 4 years in the making, using only top quality equipment, more than 10.000 samples were painstakingly recorded in 24-bit and 48 kHz. To top it all off Heavier7Strings comes with a self-developed sampler with no compromise on sound quality.

The following funtions have been disabled in demo version:
-An instructive sound for every 20 seconds.
-Modules in effect rack can be dragged into, but cannot be removed.
-Global bypass cannot be used.
-Presets cannot be saved, including guitar controlling presets and effect rack presets.
-The state of Heavier7Strings is not saved when host DAW saves project.
-The default assignment of MIDI CC cannot be changed. Cannot be used in non-realtime mode.
-DEMO mark on GUI.
 
Enjoy!

I'm downloading the demo right now. 

But I'm wondering if anyone else has had a chance to try the demo version.
One person in the Three-Body Technology forums claimed the INTRUSIVE sound at every 20 seconds was so annoying that he just uninstalled the demo. Because he was unable to enjoy or accurately test out the software.

My suggestion to Three-Body Technology would be to make the intrusive sound every 60 seconds (at least) allowing the user to more accurately and enjoyably check out the software.  Every 20 seconds is a bit too close together.

Link didn't post because your post count is too low. Here ya go: http://forums.threebodyte...opic.php?f=12&t=60

Or at least make the dropouts/beeps very short, like half a second. That's enough to keep someone from using the instrument in a real project, but not so intrusive as to put them off to the point where they refuse to give it a chance.

Leee

bitflipper
I just assumed "instructive sound" was a case of creative doublespeak. It instructs you that they're still waiting for your money.
 
I have uninstalled many a demo because of intrusive and annoying beeps, noise bursts or dropouts. Limiting functionality such as saving presets is reasonable, but how the heck are you supposed to evaluate a product that only works for 20 seconds at a time?

Exactly.  Are they so afraid someone is going to "steal" a minutes worth of their sampled software?  You'd have to be pretty hard up to try and edit and splice 20 seconds or a minute's worth of audio.  
Three-Body Technology if you're reading this, please consider changing the "instructive sound" to at least one minute.
Your potential customers want to check out your software, but it's very difficult and frustrating at intrusive sounds every 20 seconds.  It's just not worth downloading with those kind of limitations!

Hi,
Thanks for the advice! The thing is, within one hour we released the demo, somebody made a 3 minutes song using the demo to let us kone it's not "demo" enough. That's why we have to make it 20 seconds.

Three-body Tech

Leee

bitflipper
I just assumed "instructive sound" was a case of creative doublespeak. It instructs you that they're still waiting for your money.
 
I have uninstalled many a demo because of intrusive and annoying beeps, noise bursts or dropouts. Limiting functionality such as saving presets is reasonable, but how the heck are you supposed to evaluate a product that only works for 20 seconds at a time?

Exactly.  Are they so afraid someone is going to "steal" a minutes worth of their sampled software?  You'd have to be pretty hard up to try and edit and splice 20 seconds or a minute's worth of audio.  
Three-Body Technology if you're reading this, please consider changing the "instructive sound" to at least one minute.
Your potential customers want to check out your software, but it's very difficult and frustrating at intrusive sounds every 20 seconds.  It's just not worth downloading with those kind of limitations!

Hi,
Thanks for the advice! The thing is, within one hour we released the demo, somebody made a 3 minutes song using the demo to let us kone it's not "demo" enough. That's why we have to make it 20 seconds.

That's understandable, but perhaps a compromise that would secure your software in demo form AND allow users to try it without being really annoyed.   As was suggested, a short beep or audio dropout for 2 seconds would be enough to prevent anyone making a song but also not intrusive enough to allow users to try out the demo without excessive interruptions.    A 5 second interruption "Thank you for trying our demo" followed by a drumroll, every 20 seconds doesn't leave much time to listen to the software properly.  So how about a 2 second beep every 45 seconds?

As it is now, I don't think I'll be downloading the demo with the current limitations.  For me, it's just not worth it.

Leee

Three-body Tech

Leee

bitflipper
I just assumed "instructive sound" was a case of creative doublespeak. It instructs you that they're still waiting for your money.
 
I have uninstalled many a demo because of intrusive and annoying beeps, noise bursts or dropouts. Limiting functionality such as saving presets is reasonable, but how the heck are you supposed to evaluate a product that only works for 20 seconds at a time?

Exactly.  Are they so afraid someone is going to "steal" a minutes worth of their sampled software?  You'd have to be pretty hard up to try and edit and splice 20 seconds or a minute's worth of audio.  
Three-Body Technology if you're reading this, please consider changing the "instructive sound" to at least one minute.
Your potential customers want to check out your software, but it's very difficult and frustrating at intrusive sounds every 20 seconds.  It's just not worth downloading with those kind of limitations!

Hi,
Thanks for the advice! The thing is, within one hour we released the demo, somebody made a 3 minutes song using the demo to let us kone it's not "demo" enough. That's why we have to make it 20 seconds.

That's understandable, but perhaps a compromise that would secure your software in demo form AND allow users to try it without being really annoyed.   As was suggested, a short beep or audio dropout for 2 seconds would be enough to prevent anyone making a song but also not intrusive enough to allow users to try out the demo without excessive interruptions.    A 5 second interruption "Thank you for trying our demo" followed by a drumroll, every 20 seconds doesn't leave much time to listen to the software properly.  So how about a 2 second beep every 45 seconds?

As it is now, I don't think I'll be downloading the demo with the current limitations.  For me, it's just not worth it.

We will consider to increase the interval time. In addition, we will reduce the volume of that sound.