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Originally Posted by Berni
My prediction for access at NAMM this year...old snow now gone slushy, black snow, get it ; ) & hopefully a full release of OS5...it's only been 11 months since they announced it FFS. Thats it.
Access loyalist's will defend them by saying that they are giving there synths extra features at no cost to them but guess what, access don't give a shit about existing owners (my experience anyway) they already have your money. The extra features are to try & sell the same TI they have been doing for 7 years because they no longer have the resources to develop a new synth. The whole 'darkstar' thing is like putting lip stick on a pig, it might look prettier but it's still a pig  |
I would have to disagree with Access not "having the resources...", as Access, as I recently learned, is a subsidiary of a much LARGER industrial electronics and metals company, which I think is quite cool! I am a free-agent in this life and not a loyalist to none other than God Himself and I firmly believe creativity is alive and well!
You can at LEAST acknowledge that Germany, as well as most of the Industrialized world except maybe China, has undergone a financial meltdown as of 2007 to present!
My own family roots are from Industrialists from the mid 1800's and remember when their factory fell on some hard times due to the 1970's USA Environmental Protection Laws implimented where if you were a huge company, you could pay the half million usd dollar fine and keep polluting to your heart's delight--my family had to re-engineer their whole operation and proud to say release only steam rather pollutants to this day. However, ANY financial meltdown or economic downturn, e.g. recession, is going to take patience even on we waiting "consumers" because as you well-know there's a revolutionary turn taking place in the synth market, where softsynths are more than likely making hardware makers kinda re-evaluate their approach based upon this. This ALSO depends on how Access may have patent-protected their Total Integration. Where software synths have a nebulous future as well in that just how LONG will company A continue to make O.S. and Driver/Code Updates to not ONLY stay up with Apple or Intel O.S. and their updates, but what about all the compatability updates for plethora of audio interfaces and DAW's for these all relatively small softsynth companies? Sorry so long but doing some "critical thinking" trying to see the whole picture from all angles, inside and out!
Access really did an innovative thing with the whole Ti concept and have to give them kudos for actually sticking with it in the long evolution of getting VC to work relatively stable! Right?
Perhaps Access has been doing R&D all the while to ensure the next step in this Ti journey has less bumpy roads for them and their customers?! Innovation and ingenuity as well as progress does not always happen in our self-created concept of "time'. Seven years...yet you have THE SYNTH of THE FUTURE!! Also, like it or not, real analog is making a comeback full-circle! I BET there's ALOT of the major synth maker's exec's having incredible loose bowels in viewing how successful Arturia is witheir hardware synth Minibrute. The past is the future and the future is the past--always has and always will be as it's the human way! Rant over and back to the mother ship!