----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: SV: SU700 -> F*CK-ASS!
> At 10:01 PM 05/25/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >Okay, heres where I chime in and wink at Jay to come back me on this! ;)
>
> Doh!
>
> >So, the su700 cannot play pitched sampled via midi. But, it CAN change
the
> >pitch of an individual sample. So, why doesnt someone at Yamaha redo the
> >midi implementation so it has a one-midi-channel per track mode that
> >supports midi note number to pitch? How hard could it be? All the hard
stuff
> >is already done! :)
>
> Yeah, right. Yamaha programmers being used to *refine* a product that's
> already released. That's not the way it works. In Japan, they don't
> improve existing products over time - they just release new, better ones.
>
> Sorry Rob, won't happen. Unless something *drastic* changes in the way
> Yamaha manages their engineering teams (the engineers would *love* to be
> able to do this, believe me), its just not the Way of Yamaha.
>
>
> Having said that, remember that the SU700 is really designed for one
> purpose - to do realtime beatshifting, temp changes, and remixing of
> samples. It's not a sampler in the traditional sense, its a *phrase*
> sampler. Same technology, different technique.
>
>
> j.
Oh, I know that. But it *could* be done is all Im getting at. I realize it
prolly never will be. The Japanese just throw the whole team on some other
totally unrelated product and take a bunch of new ppl and throw them on the
next iteration. Thats why it seems that Japanese corps don't really learn
much from their mistakes, they just make the same ones over and over with
each new team.
I deal with Japanese corps all the time doing product evaluations and time
and time again I see the same mistakes made year after year after year and
deal with new faces on the engineering of the same product line every 6
months to a year. I ask them "Didnt you commit to fixing this last year? Why
is it still screwed up? Didnt you learn anything?" and they tell me "No one
relayed the message to us." Then I show them the email correspondences that
stack up into the hundreds that I have saved and they get flushed as they
realize just how much the last engineering staff never got around to telling
them!
Rob
