MCity.

what i grapple with every time i use realband is how deep its feature set is…and what would have happened if a more aggressive development schedule had been adopted
10 years ago. cos there was a golden opportunity to dominate the market.
its only if one makes the effort to dig deeply into rb does one realise its potential.

literally users of music production software (putting my ex marketing hat on)
would have been beating down the doors to buy and use rb with a more aggressive development schedule….
it wouldnt take a lot of manpower resources either.
what i mean is , reaper , for example i understand has always been developed with a couple of developers ?...but with a very aggressive development stance.

what concerns me is, strategically…if a established software company with big bucks
or a new entrant got v aggressive and hired a bunch of musos…bingo !..
having worked in tech…ive seen some big names lose market dominance to well funded and sometimes smaller rivals. (look what happened to IBM in ceding the low end pc market years back.)
eg what would happen if a reaper or studio one or even an apple decided to get into AI//trak auto accompaniement features big time by hiring session musicians in lots of various music genres ? already certain companies offer chord traks. which maybe be a small step…but there are possible implications in the future for pg.

frankly i love to see small companies like pg succeed and reaper etc.
(so the big dogs cant squeeze and collar the market for big bucks….which is good for the poor musicians of the world.)

what i also dont understand is, having talked to pg support staff on occasion ive been very very impressed by the level of tech knowledge exhibited.

so why isnt realband further along ? i just dont understand.

further to my testing deeply this week and in the past of BB >> RB trak transfer it become apparent to me the need for the 'big honking button feature' in biab ive detailed upthread.
cos its so 'fiddly' as it stands imho transferring traks from bb to rb. including features hidden in menus which would not be apparent to particularly new users.
ie 'one must dig'. luckily i'm a digger..lol.

what i dont understand is, with all that obviously deep tech knowledge at pg, …
is it recognised that 'fiddly//hidden stuff' drives users bonkers ?? ..oh well easter egg hunts are coming up..love em' lol.

have a great year MCity.

om

my songs....mixed for good earbuds...(fyi..my vocs on all songs..)
https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs
(90 songs created useing bb/rb)
(lots of tips of mine in pg tips forum.)