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You mean the new fancy box and external hard drive packaging is 'lacking'. I don't agree at all on that point.

OK so they should go black and silver and blister pack it so I have to call my kids over to open the darn thing. And make it have flashing lights and play a demo song so it goes into your ipod headphones and you hear the genre you push on the package.

My grandson has a thing he sits in that's like that. Plays farmer music when you touch the farm and other neat stuff. Classical and folk tunes.

I really disagree on this point. They haven't put the box with the hard drive in the stores I guess. Is success in marketing to younger people the fact that it's over top of the Yamaha keyboards at WallMart?



John,

This reply to my post - if it is not one of your tongue-in-cheek replies is clear evidence that you really don't have any idea what I am talking about. The demographic I'm talking about does not buy very much at Wal-Mart.

I'm talking the graphic design of both the advertisement as well as the website and GUI in the program. You are on about the black/silver - that much I think you picked up.

Do you read any of the industry magazines on home recording? If so, take a look at other DAW advertisements and contrast them with PG adverts. Same price paid for the advertisement itself. But one looks like it was done with Microsoft Word 'Word Art', and the others look like professionals put them together.

@Bob,

The point about GM is all over the forums (how many times do people have to ask about Forte DXi, or VSC, or SD, or the other GM flavor of the day and why my drums aren't showing up on channel 10?) You don't see any questions here asking about how to program the synths in Reaktor (well, Ryszard has dabbled, but most are doing very typical drums/guitars/piano/organ/horns backing), how to automate filters or what's the best way to get stutter effects on synth pads, etc. Here the questions seem very focused on how to get standard songs to sound good for one-man-bands and the like. WAY more topics here like that than other forums.

I mean really, just go to any of the other forums related to particular DAWs and you just won't find questions about GM. I agree that setting the program up for GM doesn't limit (well, it does in that it takes up unnecessary real-estate on the mixer applet - like for the chorus/reverb midi knobs) but unless you've played with other programs and haunted other forums, it may not be so apparent as to the general lack of targeting a younger market.

-Scott

It's been a very long time since I heard a full-on synth only tune here at PG, where everything is midi, and none of it is GM.

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