fretshot7 wrote: ↑17 May 2019
I am going to have to download the bundle and have a play. I really have no idea what these devices do, I can't get through the videos ( sorry they are so boring i lose interest before they even really get going )
A quick demo of some fun stuff straight up, that piques your interest would be much better in my opinion, then go into the nuts and bolts of it.
Even reading on the description on the prop shop has me scratching my head a bit. This is all my fault i'm not having a go, just have the attention span of a knat!
However, what little grasp I have of what chord bank does if it can help my find and play jazzy chords and then work out bass and lead id be stoked.
I am gonna find out with a trial...
But in my opinion the videos haven't done this device(s) any favours. Check out the new Robotic Bean Sequencer video ... that was exciting!
This is absolutely fair comment IMHO
The purpose of the videos wasn't to sell the devices, but to give a visual aid to the pdf manuals.
The Robotic Bean video is as much a sales pitch as it is instructional, and this is mainly because Robotic Bean is a fully-fledged company with time and resources. This isn't yet the case with Enlightenspeed, so as much as I'd love to sell a couple of thousand units a year, that is not the intention at this stage, the idea is just to start building a reputation for decent products and hopefully, the market will bloom at some point along the way. The idea behind our plugins is not to be "all singing, all dancing", we take the idea of doing something small, and aim to do it well. Very well. In fact, Chordbank already has a few features that we know for a fact doesn't exist in Reason/Rack Extension format, and a couple that we know of no VST equivalent either, even among the pricey high-end solutions. So I feel that we're on the right path, but building a large robust code base takes a long time; look at Reason, today it is arguably the strongest DAW in the world with few flaws and an ever-growing userbase, but it still has a feature request list a mile long and building it has taken over twenty years so far. I'm inclined to be patient and do things right - I've been a Propellerhead user for most of their existence, and I agree with how they do things. So, I'm building good Rack Extensions, but I'm not really selling them yet, there is a larger long-term goal in mind.
All that said, I'm going to be sticking up a nice set of slightly more "exciting" videos that really show the Loopcracker devices in more action-packed situations over the next week or so, so keep an eye out, and you should see some stuff that will take your fancy. Keep in mind the basic format of the vids won't change at all, it'll still be my monotone Scottish accent and a single Reason rack, but the plugins will be doing much cooler stuff. Fancy pants video editing will come later.
Thanks for giving me a good opportunity to point all this out.
Cheers and have a good weekend,
Brian