For me, to come back to the PG fold, I would use Robh's list, but also I need to see a completely different way of just plain 'getting things done' that are underlying technical connectivity items, so that making music is fun, not a chore.

Some attitude change is necessary, and perhaps is starting to show a turnaround.

The about face attitude change that is at the heart of Robh's points is twofold, IMO:

1. Design the software so that the tools freely available outside of PG's self-created tools are functional. This means, no more explaining away why ASIO implementation seems so difficult (recent threads from several purchasers of PG stuff) and actually making it work as a default, not as a nice-to-have feature. It also means that VST/VSTi implementation should be full, and not 80% there.

I see somewhat of an attitude change from PG on this with the recent inclusion of Amplitube. They've made the decision to include a product in their own that in it's most pure form, expects people to 'play' it, not just push pre-recorded stuff through it. Amplitube does sync to the host tempo for it's included delays and choruses, etc. Has anyone checked to see whether this works with the RB included version?

Question to those that now have the latest incarnation of RB - has anyone tried to see if the jam-along feature of Jamstix might actually work now? What would be really bad would be if it worked and nobody knew it.

2. PG should look to PG outsider feature requests as much as insider PG feature requests and implement the coolest stuff that's out there from both camps. Robh's example of node-based automation is a shining example of not paying attention to outsider requests. Node based automation is simply par for the course with other DAW software. The math behind it is really easy for the most part: y=mx+b; y = resultant CC value, m=computed slope between nodes, x=timecode, b=cc offset value. Most DAW software started off using a simple interpolation between nodes, but now they've moved on farther than that to non-linear interpolation between nodes. This is standard fare; except in PG stuff.

If PG only looks inside and to it's installed user base to see where to improve and whom to please, the company runs the risk of suffering the fate of bygone industrial powerhouses. I give Oldsmobile, Burroughs, Studebaker, and a host of other formerly great companies as examples of serving only your known customer base. "When EF Hutton talks, people listen." Evidently, not enough people.

Last edited by rockstar_not; 12/15/11 01:20 PM.
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