I have a few plugs that make the neighbor's dog howl, but the rodent one sounds awesome!  if we could get one for the darned skunk that keeps showing up in my backyard, even better!!!

LLyons
When they are excited and know what they are doing counts to most of us, they will continue the flow of great product, because they know they count. Its in our human DNA to be respected, and valued.

Cakewalk's "secret weapon" is that the customer base includes most of their employees  They have to make themselves happy with the program.
 

swamptooth
I have a few plugs that make the neighbor's dog howl, but the rodent one sounds awesome!  if we could get one for the darned skunk that keeps showing up in my backyard, even better!!!

Use a liberal amount of your “Home Brew VST” in your sig.
Firstly put it on a Track and then load it on a Bus... (the darned skunk, not the VST)
 

lol!  I'm not getting anywhere near the thing!  

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
 
 
This survey wasn't about a bunch of bean counters trying to maximize profits. It's about us understanding how customers use our software and other products in the market place. Pure market research. And the goal is to help improve SONAR and also make the experience better for customers. 

I remain curious as to why you don't ask all of them ?

*proud that he actually started a discussion of Varmints and VSTs*

paulo

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
 
 
This survey wasn't about a bunch of bean counters trying to maximize profits. It's about us understanding how customers use our software and other products in the market place. Pure market research. And the goal is to help improve SONAR and also make the experience better for customers. 

I remain curious as to why you don't ask all of them ?

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Anderton

paulo

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
 
 
This survey wasn't about a bunch of bean counters trying to maximize profits. It's about us understanding how customers use our software and other products in the market place. Pure market research. And the goal is to help improve SONAR and also make the experience better for customers. 

I remain curious as to why you don't ask all of them ?

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Erm no actually, the person I asked hasn't answered at all, which was why I asked him again. Somebody who doesn't work for cakewalk posting a link to some gibberish isn't an answer. Thanks for the arrogance.

Anderton
Cakewalk's "secret weapon" is that the customer base includes most of their employees  They have to make themselves happy with the program.
 

Substitute "customer" for "alien". Substitute " "employees" for greys. The "program" is the invasion plan. Yup this is the internet and I am right.

paulo
 
Erm no actually, the person I asked hasn't answered at all, which was why I asked him again. Somebody who doesn't work for cakewalk posting a link to some gibberish isn't an answer. Thanks for the arrogance.

I don't consider the science of statistics gibberish, so I didn't consider referencing his response as arrogance. And frankly, I didn't look at your post count so thought you might not be aware of subscribing to threads. Besides, people commonly provide answers to questions regardless of whom they're directed to if they feel they have an answer, and I thought Stickman's answer was valid.
 
What his post is referencing is that to obtain a statistically accurate sampling of opinions, there are formulas for how many people you need to ask to have a representative answer. There is a certain inherent margin of error due to limiting the sample; this is why you hear things like "Candidate X is trailing candidate Z by 2%, which is within the margin of error." However, it has been proven time and time again that you can obtain accurate analyses with a relatively compact sample of people. I think Neilsen's ratings involve only a few thousand households, yet advertisers consider them sufficiently accurate that they're willing to commit to spending millions of dollars on advertising based on the results.
 
The advantage of limiting the samples is that the more samples you take, the more time it takes to analyze those samples, especially with surveys that have comment fields (don't know if Cakewalk's did or not...I wasn't asked, either). So at least based on statistical sciences, asking more than the needed number of people is a waste of time - which is likely why Cakewalk didn't ask their entire user base.