Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

I'm a PC user and it sucks on PC's as well.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Leclerc [mailto:Simonvolt@...]
> Subject: Re: [Evolver] RE: sucktower !!!
> 
> I get it now, the answer is: PC users.
> But i'm running Mac OSX on a
> Powerbook and ALL my softwares are working fine.
> I just have problems with PolyEvolver.
> 
> So is Soundtower working on an OS upgrade ?
> 
> 
> On 6-Aug-04, at 2:04 PM, Simon Leclerc wrote:
> 
> > What i'd like to know is who recommended this
> > peace of crap when i asked if we should buy it or not.
> > I remember at least 3 jubilatory comments telling
> > this forum how great this software is.
> > What the hell happened ?
> >
> > Simon
> > On 6-Aug-04, at 11:32 AM, dodgingrain wrote:
> >
> >> I agree as well, I bought the one for the evolver and wish I had
> >> not.  Very poor quality, poor interface, and absolutely no support
> >> for any issues that come up.  I also assumed that the version that
> >> comes with the poly would properly handle chained
> >> evolvers/polyevolvers and it doesn't.
> >>
> >> I complained to dave about it when I got the poly, about having to
> >> wait for registration to go through, lack of response from
> >> soundtower, etc.  I think if we don't speak up to dave he may not
> >> know there are real issues with soundtower and their lack 
> of quality.
> >>
> >> I think it's one of the few blemishes in regards to the
> >> evolver/polyevolver.  To bad there isn't a decent alternative at
> >> this point.
> >>
> >> --- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Scott"
> >> <richardscott@b...> wrote:
> >>> I agree with Stefan, its a real shame but like many I am just not
> >> using the
> >>> editor (PC) and regret buying it
> >>>
> >>> Richard
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "privat_joy" <privat_joy@y...>
> >>> Subject: [Evolver] RE: sucktower !!!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Same expierience with Soundtower over here!
> >>>> This company is crap (but i don't think it is a real company,
> >> more a
> >>>> one man fake)!
> >>>> Also had the editor for MW and now for the poly-evo and the eVo.
> >>>> I had some questions in the past, but NEVER!!! gat any answer
> >> from them.
> >>>> When i recieved my poly last month, i wanted to register and get
> >> the
> >>>> returncode to set the software from demo into registered mode.
> >> In this
> >>>> case, soundtowers webpage put me allways thru to the shop from
> >>>> D.Smith!!! Unbelievable! I mailed them. No answer. I mailed Dave
> >> and
> >>>> recieved the software for both included the codes!
> >>>> So, what's up Soundtower?
> >>>> I think that Dave SMith's Intsruments are high class and that he
> >>>> should not work with Soundtower together anymore. Well, bad, i
> >> know,
> >>>> we will loose the editor (i paid also for the Evo-Version), but
> >> maybe
> >>>> they can find another, better solution for this.
> >>>> Sorry to say this so directly!
> >>>> Stefan
> >>>>
> >>>> --- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "mr julian"
> >> <jujulilianan@w...> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've totally given up on soundtower now.....
> >>>>>
> >>>>> They win the prize for buggiest piece of software I have ever
> >> paid money
> >>>>> for, and worst customer service ever.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I bought the microwave (one) editor from soundtower over 2
> >> years
> >>>> ago, and
> >>>>> discovered a whole pile of bugs and just plain missing
> >>>> functionality. I got
> >>>>> a few emails out of him, but when it became obvious that I
> >> *was*
> >>>> actually
> >>>>> right about the software's problems, he just stopped emailing
> >> me
> >>>> about it.
> >>>>> When he appeared on this list a few months ago with a big
> >> fanfare
> >>>> about how
> >>>>> he was going to fix all the mac editor bugs (has anyone
> >> actually seen an
> >>>>> upgrade yet?) I sent him another email, with a proper buglist
> >> for the
> >>>>> microwave 1 editor program, of things I'd been noting down
> >> while
> >>>> trying to
> >>>>> use it. I got a single reply where he seemed to be confused,
> >>>> thinking it was
> >>>>> about the micro-Q editor they sell (how many times do you have
> >> to write
> >>>>> MICROWAVE I in order to get someone to read it, eh?) then when
> >> I sent a
> >>>>> reply detailing exactkly what synth it was, and attaching the
> >>>> buglist again,
> >>>>> I never got any reply.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Had he found some way to actually bugfix this (barely beta
> >> level) bit of
> >>>>> software I would have gone on and bought the XT editor, as
> >> well as the
> >>>>> evolver editor.. but as it is, I absolutely categorically
> >> refuse to ever
> >>>>> waste my money buying anything from soundtower ever again. And
> >> I'm
> >>>> going to
> >>>>> be making pretty much exactly this same post any time anyone
> >> asks on the
> >>>>> internet about this company, because in my experience, people
> >> should at
> >>>>> least know about the lack of completeness and lack of support
> >> to
> >>>> expect from
> >>>>> this company before forking out hard earned dollars to someone
> >> who
> >>>> seriously
> >>>>> just doesn't care.
> >>>>> Anyway, good luck to all the people who do have a working
> >> evolver
> >>>> editor....
> >>>>> It would be handy to have an editor and librarian for my
> >> evolver...... I
> >>>>> really wish there was one I could buy...
> >>>>> julian
> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>> From: "z_flash_ram" <z_flash_ram@y...>
> >>>>> To: <DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com>
> >>>>> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:58 AM
> >>>>> Subject: Re: [Evolver] Editor (was RE: Evolver/ random patch
> >> generator?)
> >>>>>> Just got back to "online"...
> >>>>>> I'm not able to bring *anything* into the Windows-Evolver-
> >> Editor from
> >>>>>> the Evolver- no dump, no program, no banks!!!
> >>>>>> The editors' author has blamed my windows 2000 security or
> >> some such
> >>>>>> bs...lol.
> >>>>>> I'm glad (well, relieved) to hear that someone else has this
> >> problem,
> >>>>>> because I thought my Evolver was wack.
> >>>>>> I haven't used the editor since the first week I bought it
> >> (8 months
> >>>>>> or so ago).
> >>>>>> Stephan, beautiful stuff.
> >>>>>> Chris
> >>
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