Hi Greg,
Whilst I would dearly like to see many of the types of improvements that you are suggesting, I would hate to see these being delivered at the expense of new styles.

For me, the realtracks and realstyles are the life blood of the product and absolutely why I continue to buy every upgrade.

I also don’t really see why one should come at the expense of the other. The two areas require very different skill sets and I imagine are produced by completely different sets of people. The tracks and styles require musicians and studio production staff whereas the program improvements require programmers and designers.

In my experience as a software developer there is only so much change that you can make to a mature piece of software in any 12 month window. Threre are only so many people that you can have digging down the same hole so throwing extra programmers at it probably won’t increase - and may well decrease - productivity.

I suspect that we may well have to live with many of the workflow and usability idiosyncrasies that you are referring to for many years to come (and some possibly for ever). The program just allows me to do such great things that I am going to swallow that and just keep enjoying the fantastic new tracks and styles.

Regards, Aubrey

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