On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:49:43 +0100, Richard Bown wrote: > We launched RG from a desktop icon all last week. It now has > Logic-style status messages on the splash screen while you're waiting > for it to start and (while they can be a little naff) touches like that > are give it a professional air if nothing else. I was also showing off
No, I agree. You're talking to the guy who spend an evening drawing cheezy moving-needle meters in gimp ;) > plugin and adding a drum track etc.and then burning it onto CD. The > average person with money to spend on music tech doesn't really want to > do too much more than that. In fact if they can get that far then > they're really chuffed. Maybe, but the people I'm thinking of are looking for a replacement for thier protools+logic systems, not cubase or cakewalk. Home users are important too, but... > It's probably up to the bread and butter products to drive the bespoke, > studio-end products. The complete, finished solution that does both > ends sufficiently well will take a while to arrive (ardour releasing I'm not sure it ever will. I dont think theres that much overlap between protools and cubase. - Steve