[quote="Hanz Meyzer" post_id=8976570 time=1728457460 user_id=340022]
Though I don't have the impression that the Bitwig crew still cares too much about reality anymore or what the users would like to see... The compressor+ is certainly nice, but in my opinion has nothing to do with a DAW at all anymore. Also a very subjective approach. And there are so many so good compressor plugins. And then there already were two internal compressors available. It looks to me that they are mostly doing what they like to do, what motivates them the most.
Also the amount of changes got smaller and smaller, in my subjective perception... Sometimes it feels like there were only two people coding at all, but might be a wrong impression, due to the complexity of the project.
Then there are not so good decisions, like adding support for 100 languages or an interactive help for any kind of device. This will slow down every single change by a lot and also mentally cement the current structure even more. IMHO the structure should be kept the most flexible at any point of time, esp. if the project already has grown a lot.
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I concur with that assessment about the subjectivity of many additions in the past two years. Several of the big added features have seemed like passion projects with limited real world value. Meanwhile the core features that the bread and butter work of production relies on are not getting the improvements and fixes that are really needed. I'll skip the specifics, otherwise this message would be three pages long, but too often as I flip some control on and off over and over again I wonder if these guys understand how their product is really used in intensive production situations.
Though I don't have the impression that the Bitwig crew still cares too much about reality anymore or what the users would like to see... The compressor+ is certainly nice, but in my opinion has nothing to do with a DAW at all anymore. Also a very subjective approach. And there are so many so good compressor plugins. And then there already were two internal compressors available. It looks to me that they are mostly doing what they like to do, what motivates them the most.
Also the amount of changes got smaller and smaller, in my subjective perception... Sometimes it feels like there were only two people coding at all, but might be a wrong impression, due to the complexity of the project.
Then there are not so good decisions, like adding support for 100 languages or an interactive help for any kind of device. This will slow down every single change by a lot and also mentally cement the current structure even more. IMHO the structure should be kept the most flexible at any point of time, esp. if the project already has grown a lot.
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I concur with that assessment about the subjectivity of many additions in the past two years. Several of the big added features have seemed like passion projects with limited real world value. Meanwhile the core features that the bread and butter work of production relies on are not getting the improvements and fixes that are really needed. I'll skip the specifics, otherwise this message would be three pages long, but too often as I flip some control on and off over and over again I wonder if these guys understand how their product is really used in intensive production situations.
Statistics: Posted by amg56 — Sun Oct 20, 2024 3:10 am