Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Hi Jim,

It was an excellent NAMM show - I had a couple of quick chats with 
Dave (he had a lot of celebs demoing the PEK and MEK througout the 
show, by the way - It was very busy in his booth). Elsewhere in the 
show, the control surface / controller keyboard craze continues to 
grow with more and more of these affordable studio options popping 
up from manufacturers across the board. In the next 6 months 
Psicraft will be releasing many more OEM Vyzors as well as several 
much-anticipated retail Vyzors. See www.vyzor.com for a quick 
overview.

Ok, ok, I'm teasing you by not getting to the real news on Vyzor 
Evolver - Sorry. We've started on the manual now and are about to 
start external beta testing on Monday. 

Those who can't wait for the official release can contact me off-
list to arrange a pre-release download purchase: This will make you 
part of the beta team for $59 USD (This is the $79 price minus $20 
crossgrade discount which will be automatically applied to pre-
release purchases). Pre-releasers will also get the release version 
when it's ready, of course.

All the best,

Tony

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, James Elliott <johans121@...> 
wrote:
>
> Ok, NAMM is over, what's the news ;-)
> 
> psicraft_designs <tony@...> wrote:     Hi Jim,
>  
>  We're still bashing away on it... Many other things have come up 
to
>  serve as major distractions and the pending NAMM show is starting 
to
>  look like an obstacle too: The last thing we want to do is 
release 
>  the product and have our webstore start processing orders when 
we've 
>  left town for two weeks: Since all of us will be down at the 
show, 
>  there would be nobody minding the shop to handle tech or sales 
>  support - A potentially nasty situation for our first customers 
if 
>  they were to encounter issues with their transactions, downloads 
or 
>  configurations. We'll have to postpone the actual release until 
>  February to avoid such potential problems for our users if the 
>  editor gets finished too close to our NAMM departure time (two 
weeks 
>  from now).
>  
>  With regards to Vyzor Ion and Micron - These haven't been 
explicitly
>  announced in the Ion/Micron forum since they are much further away
>  from being releasable - I think I've gotten enough of a 
reputation as
>  a vapor-merchant from the slipped Vyzor Evolver deadlines that I 
have
>  posted here over the last year, and I'm not eager to add to it by
>  getting the Ion/Micron users stoked up and waiting in high
>  anticipation as well. This said, I am willing to mention that the 
Ion
>  and Micron editors we have under development look really REALLY 
cool
>  and have a host of unexpected features beyond VST automation and
>  intuitive editing interfaces. They are planned for release in Q2 
of
>  2006 - Around May.
>  
>  "We'll sell no wine before its time" comes to mind... Now I know 
how
>  the gang at Access felt last September...
>  
>  Cheers,
>  
>  Tony
>