I just met with Emagic developers--they care for us.
Folks, I just got back from the Los Angeles Logic User's Group meeting and was very impressed and moved by the representatives from Emagic, now working for Apple.
I especially was moved by Manfred Knauff, Engineering Product Manager, an extraordinarily intelligent, deep, compassionate man, who says he reads the forums. SO OUR FEEDBACK HELPS.
I could empathize with him and the developers: they have an enormous list of feature requests coming from every angle, each person’s request seeming to be the most important to them, emphasized by some egos in the audience hogging the stage.
At the start of the meeting there was a rule for no complaining and no asking about future fixes, feature additions by a rep of the users group. But at the end they opened an invitation for feature/future requests. I mentioned how I love Score (my area of interest) and “would like to see it go further.” Manfred was keenly aware of this—in fact is helping in the development of Score—and insinuated that good things are to come.
But now I see that it is a process that takes time, based on the resources available. For example, take Ultrabeat. Created by the ingenious Steffen Gehring was beta tested by only a handful of people.
Another “God of Logic” was Steffan Diedrichsen, who created such plug-ins as EVP88, EVB3, Space Designer, ES1, ES2 and others. He was clearly a clever individual to come up with these programs, but I was also struck by how much he cared about the quality and soul of the final sound. He’s a jazz musician and loves music.
Let me emphasize again that the Emagic guys are smart, humorous, and care about Logic. They are doing the best that they can.
I especially was moved by Manfred Knauff, Engineering Product Manager, an extraordinarily intelligent, deep, compassionate man, who says he reads the forums. SO OUR FEEDBACK HELPS.
I could empathize with him and the developers: they have an enormous list of feature requests coming from every angle, each person’s request seeming to be the most important to them, emphasized by some egos in the audience hogging the stage.
At the start of the meeting there was a rule for no complaining and no asking about future fixes, feature additions by a rep of the users group. But at the end they opened an invitation for feature/future requests. I mentioned how I love Score (my area of interest) and “would like to see it go further.” Manfred was keenly aware of this—in fact is helping in the development of Score—and insinuated that good things are to come.
But now I see that it is a process that takes time, based on the resources available. For example, take Ultrabeat. Created by the ingenious Steffen Gehring was beta tested by only a handful of people.
Another “God of Logic” was Steffan Diedrichsen, who created such plug-ins as EVP88, EVB3, Space Designer, ES1, ES2 and others. He was clearly a clever individual to come up with these programs, but I was also struck by how much he cared about the quality and soul of the final sound. He’s a jazz musician and loves music.
Let me emphasize again that the Emagic guys are smart, humorous, and care about Logic. They are doing the best that they can.
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