Love has Blossomed

icontakt
What I'm not happy about is that each monthly update seems to introduce a new bug.

I hate to say I agree. Take the new start screen for instance. There are a LOT of regression issues with it. The developer didn't accomdate for special characters anywhere it seems, and performance when starting up Sonar didn't seem to be a consideration either (I.e. putting internet downloads in it's own seperate process, and maybe not lazy loading files and thumbnails tbc). If your project has not been loaded and you don't have a thumbnail it just shows a black one, rather than something more polished. It seems there are issues with being offline and internet access may go through a port that could be blocked by a firewall (I.e. not port 80)...maybe.

For a reasonably experienced Dev all this should have been obvious from the start. It might be though that the design specs were not good enough (developer straightjacketed), or there was a hard deadline to live up to. QA should have easily picked this up on these issues as well (these aren't difficult bugs to find). Pick any one of these I can't speculate which one of these is true (oh all right .. I will guess hard deadline, for my sins).

Where does it leave us? Well we can easily turn it off (at least that was accommodated for, glad that happened!) however these regression issues are clearly going to take some time to resolve. So will Cakewalk resolve all the regression issues here? Or will they only fix some of them (due to deadlines and lack of time),leaving more bugs floating around we need to workaround with, as has been the case in the past (we still have a backlog).

Eventually it will all be fixed.. but will it? If functionality keeps being introduced with regression bugs it's just whack a mole. I crumble with fear how many regression issues will be introduced with the forthcoming audio enhancements, that's far more complex than the start screen.

I fear the old lessons learned from the Roland days are being forgotten about.

There will be arguements by others that a balance has to be maintained here, but it's already far too much pivoted to one side. Has been for years.

I will be sticking with Gloucester for a while...

Bristol_Jonesey
John, I thought from the thread title this was a new song........

John does NOT post songs. No one but him knows why.

bapu

SteveStrummerUK
 
Wow.

John had the same thoughts as you?
 
Is that why you're amazed?

Bapsi, the day I go on a public forum and, without a hint of irony or satire, post a public proclamation that I am 'in love' with a computer program, please email me immediately and tell me to get a grip.
 
That is, of course, providing I haven't already died of embarrassment.
 
For the record, I've been a big fan of Cakewalk and many of its products since I first dipped a toe into the pond of digital recording with Guitar Tracks 2. I like the software, I respect the developers, and for the most part I enjoy the company and advice to be found in these forums.
 
As it happens, I have similar views regarding other brands and types of software. Such 'emotions' seem perfectly normal and rational to me.
 
In my humble opinion however, it just doesn't seem too normal or rational, healthy even, to express an epithet like "Love has blossomed" in respect of a computer program. Surely, feeling such as these should be reserved for other human beings, a favourite pet, or maybe one's country.....
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
..... and don't call me Shirley.
 
 

Well advice on Sonar posts get moved to the coffee house when there is parody involved.

Amen.

And yet posts about Sonar still get moved to the coffee house. Amen.