EnochLight wrote:As I said in the other thread, people should definitely treat this as an "early access public beta test". I realize it says "preview edition" on the device itself, and their product page says to demo first because of high CPU use, but it's really, reaaaallly buggy, too.
That said, at only $59 USD and the fact that we all
KNOW that Reveal Sound will
eventually address these issues, it's hard to pass up...
if I didn't already own the VST. 
For that reason, I'm not sure if I'll pick this up or not. Part of me wants to support Reveal Sound's efforts - since I know for a fact they had to have spent a great deal of time and resources porting this, but... it's also not my responsibility to bail them out. And taking into consideration this is their only product, it's not like we need to convince them to stick around for RE development.... They could bail after this (though I'm sure they'd have a hell of a lot of pissed of Reasoners at their gates).
Decisions, decisions... what to do...? $59 really isn't a lot of money (that fills my gas tank up 1 & 1/2 times), so I might bite the bullet. We'll see...
At €59 I was considering taking a punt, but that's a decent chunk for something that doesn't really work with just a promise. They might be great guys, and put in a lot of effort, and they might work overtime trying to fix it. But still, they chose to release it in they state they have, and that should concern everyone.
At a time when there's an understandable concern about the addition of VSTs in Reason and what will become of REs, especially instruments and effects, now is not the time to being have paid alpha tests. Submitting it to the shop and publishing it at this stage reeks of panic; by doing such a huge discount and not specifying a deadline, they were intentionally hoping a lot users would rush to buy it immediately without trialling it first and realising how broken it is, and leaving those customers with a promise to finish it later. I'm sure many of us have seen how that sometimes works out on Steam.
This isn't a case of a few fairly obscure or embarassingly missed bugs that slipped through beta; we all have those despite our best efforts, those are unfortunate but sadly expected. It's not even about lack of the CVs, after all, Korg weren't too bothered about those either
. This is three or four deep and fundamental bugs/omissions. That reflects badly on them. It reflects badly on the RE format at a time when PH have been discussing ways of improving it and having conversations with other RE and VST developers about the VST support in Reason. It's a cynical insult to users who've long been excited by the prospect of one the most highly regarded VSTi's out of recent years appearing in Reason. And lastly it reflects badly on Propellerhead that it got into the shop, and I can't say I'm surprised it's been pulled given the state it's in.
It's literally only usable at 44.1kHz, and with no automation tracks.
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