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But my experience does not constitute a survey of all users, just as this forum does not, which was and is my point.





This is true for all of us - but so hard to put aside personal experiences/frustrations.

It would be interesting to see how PG does Product Development & Market Research for setting importance of features. Because Peter Gannon posted the note and asked for comments, it sort of looked like market research on the surface.

When James Chandler Jr. used to post here, we got a little bit of an idea on how it worked in the past. James described PG Music's choice to go with DX over VST for plugin technology in one post back some years ago.

Market Research is such an art. I've had to study it somewhat in my past employment, as I would assist in customer clinics as it pertained to sound & vibration performance of GM vehicles. I attended a week long course by the Burke Institute (the math folks behind the Nielsen ratings) on statistics used in gathering and analyzing market research data. In my work, I at least interfaced with the customers. There were folks in that class that analyzed data based on mail-out cards. Almost impossible to get response rates above 10% for stuff like that. I was thankful for my direct contact after having dinner with those folks.