All I know is I like the way CW is releasing stuff. Its as cool as it gets. Always something to look forward to. I sorta feel sorry for those still holding back and still on X3 and older. 

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
Most companies here start new employees at 2 weeks and cap at 4 weeks after you have been there for years (decades). Its a pretty sorry state compared to Europe :)

I had a vacation in 1998, but it's starting to wear off. I think I need another one. 

noynekker

Keni
Of course we don't yet have a full lust of bug fixes... Not complaining. I understand...

Just hoping for some little fixes such as the zoom key one again working correctly for a hold-z zoom? (Returning to the smarttool when z is released)

Pain to manually switch back and forth with every edit...

Hey Keni . . . I was also hoping this would get "fixed" . . . but then I noticed that the Z key command actually toggles
zoom mode on + off . . . So, if you are using the Smart Tool, and click Z, clicking Z again (after your zoom) will return automatically to the Smart Tool . . . isn't that what you were asking for ?

Hi noynekker...

Thanks...

I know that z toggles it (always has) and I can toggle back and forth a few ways...

But since forever, if you hold the z whike performing the operation, the extea cluck of manually switching back to the smarttool was not necessary as releasing the z after the procedure left you with the smarttool...

So whike not the biggest problem, it dies now force me to issue an extea command every time I do this... Which is a lot!

Keni

John
All I know is I like the way CW is releasing stuff. Its as cool as it gets. Always something to look forward to. I sorta feel sorry for those still holding back and still on X3 and older.

the "more new faster" thing can distract from actually learning how to use the huge amount of stuff already there - nothing wrong with living in the now!

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
 
All in all this is completely normal in the development process. You folks are looking at a small window of a month which is not a big enough sample size to accurately represent whats going on. i.e. some months will look smaller and others may look huge since we are releasing features only after testing. Next month will have a ton of updates coming online.

Honestly (but please don't hit me) I'd be just as happy with bimonthly updates and I have always wondered why Cake puts so much weight on their shoulders to get it done perfectly on time each and every month ...

Anderton
The difference with the new model is that bug fixes won't stop past a certain point as they did in the past, but are ongoing, although possibly at a reduced rate. If development slows down, the team can go back into the "bugs archive" and fix longstanding bugs; there's been evidence of that in the past several releases.

I see the bugs in 3 categories:

1) Regression bugs.
2) Really old bugs that never got fixed up to X3E (there appears to be quite a backlog). Many one could regard as 'legacy'.
3) The rest.

Obviously (1) should and is getting priority. I would hope to see a bigger push for (2). It appears the main reason why we aren't is because of regression bugs coming from new features. Most just seem to hang around.

I had hoped one developer would be set aside for nothing but bug fixing until the event horizon is met (clearly I must have sad fanasies!). :)

Well let's just see if almost all the track view bugs and workflow issues get quashed with the audio enhancements coming up. That would send a more positive message IMHO.

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
I have to say that the European companies have the right balance of work and personal life. I'm always shocked when I talk with developers there and they have weeks or months of off time. Its quite different here in the US (sadly)

We have plenty of time off because we outsource all our work to China ;).

I'm very pleased with this release. I really like the start screen, and having videos easily at my fingertips. I was working on something last night, and the video on the new midi enhancements was just what I needed, which saved me a lot of time not having to start a browser session, and search for it. Great job to everyone at Cakewalk!

i like the 'Update All' option in the menu... people should not need to go thru each item and update individually.

Deleted, I misread something....