Elektron Musical Instruments

Yes and No, you shouldn't just drop support for existing products

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From: "Janne G:son Berg" <d3berg@...>
To: <elektron-users@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [elektron] i want a new SidStation OS too...


> On Fri Mar 01 2002, Joeri Vankeirsbilck <joeri@...> wrote:
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> > Isn't it normal that a company first wants to make sure its new product
> > is perfect, before adding features to older products? And by the way,
> > Elektron have recently introduced a new soundset for the SidStation, so
> > they do care for their Sid customers.
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> Totally agree!
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> Technically, adding the feature for playing the three oscillatorsin
> the SID-chip independently via midi shouldn't be that hard. User
> interface is totally another thing. How should users interact with the
> new functionality?
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> How is that functionality to be added into the existing OS? Is there
> enough free memory to fit in everything? Should there be another
> totally different set if patches for the tripple midi control mode?
> Editing those patches? Do we have to remove 50 of the existing patches
> to make room for the new patches?
>
> So, please, give some thought to the amount of work that it takes to
> develop some new functionality for something that already exists, then
> think some more on how much work it is to come up with a new
> product...
>
> /Janne
>
> P.S. I've been sequencing the SID from the MD and it is really fun! D.S.
>
> --
> Janne G:son Berg, d3berg@...
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3berg
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