Is the forum now on some kind of double secret probation? Have I gone back to 50's high school? Yea I know, as did most here, who you mean and yes he contributes(ed) a lot of really excellent stuff. But after almost 60 years in work force - 21 in the service and the rest in industry here's what I've learned: NO ONE is indispensable.

No offense to him but a lot of us were using BIAB, some even productively if you can believe that, long before he was here and most of us will continue to do so. Obviously it would be better with him here, contributing, but nonetheless we will plod along in our ignorant and Neanderthal ways in any case. Of course, it would also be better if Mac and many others were here, but they are also not here and haven't been for many years.

If and when he comes up with a better mousetrap I’ll be first in line to buy it - just send me the link!


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It would be great if that better mousetrap ALSO meets the current up to date WCPS (whine catalog of palladium standards) set here by more than a few, that phrase "more than a few" in modern terms seems to be equivalent to "an overwhelming majority:"

This application has to do everything I WANT (no exceptions); does it the way I THINK it should be done (in spite of not being on the design team); is 100% user configurable in all aspects (GUI and operations); is completely ERROR free on all platforms and all platform configurations; works with all other music applications and DAW's (free or licensed) in all OS’s; is fully cross platform and cross application implemented; with all bells and whistles of all other similar, and dissimilar, programs; meets all those conditions and is released for most OS’s (Win, MacOS, Linux - all flavors, Android – all flavors, iOS - all, Chrome, Free BSD, what the heck ...Fedora); is released in all major, and most minor, world languages, with full up-to-date indexed and searchable documentation in those languages - at release.

Also has a small memory footprint, is small to download, opens and begins functioning in a few milliseconds is not licensed and doesn't need to be activated and never needs web connectivity. Finally needs to be fully future proofed for all the above (OS's, platforms, standards [e.g., VST implementations, all HW and SW protocols and interfaces, even unknown but future bus protocols])

May as well discuss MSRP: since everyone in music everywhere will want this then no reason unit retail cost should be more than say ~$100 with free updates. However, not sure why any updates are needed, by definition it already does all, sees all, and knows all on release, so why would any updates ever be needed? But if God forbid an update is ever needed, for any reason, then it should be completed and released same day (it's just a few lines of code).

Heck I’ll even pay twice that much, I'll pay $200 in "then" dollars.

Larry

BTW just because no one comes to someones rescue does not necessarily mean all were clueless, might mean something else or it might mean nothing at all.

Last edited by Larry Kehl; 04/17/20 06:52 PM.
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