Yep we're definitely disagreeing on the technical vs personal perspective. But also I see favoring content/devices upgrades over DAW specific upgrades as a separate concept than dropping the DAW portion altogether... which is what some seem to be alluding to. The former has always happened. They've only had about 2 or 3 innovative features as far as the DAW is concerned since Record imo. Bussing was a marquee feature in version 7... yes something basic as bussing. Granted, it was enough for me to buy R7 and their implementation is different than the norm, but that's how they've moved on updating the DAW portions.... Reason 8 was drag and drop...literally.guitfnky wrote: ↑15 Mar 2021
the thing is, we don’t get to define what they spend their time on, so content-related updates to RRP are absolutely plausible, even at the expense of the DAW, if that’s what they decide is important. I hope that’s not the case (in fact, I think it probably isn’t).
where I disagree is in that I don’t think content updates benefit standalone by definition. many of us think they’ve already spent WAY too much time creating content/instruments/effects/Players/whathaveyou to begin with. in my mind, without a ***serious*** push in the core DAW, any additional devices will be largely worthless—at least from a “should I upgrade?” perspective. from a technical “do I have more stuff?” perspective, sure, but that’s not the same thing as what an individual/average user may define as being worthwhile.
This is why I say they are (so far ) who they've always been and I don't see any real change in how they've operated from then til now. Perhaps R+ will change that? I doubt the DAW is going anywhere. It's just whether or not they care to play feature catch up with everything else in that regard.