Wait..please let me understand--Joe,your response raises many questions--
>requested features on IdeaScale.
1) Ideascale, which you once publicly admitted was a pure sham, however said in your own words--after all the outrage and yelling from us users here you're FINALLY using it the actual way it was intended, and believed to be set up to be used and wasnt from day one? What took so long Joe?
And are you ONLY picking things your "tech" teams--all THREE of them now-- can fix or bolt on, without hopefully doing much damage, and leaving out much needed fixes, and notation improvements which MANY users keep asking for, and instead are ignored, or get the famed "tumbleweed"?
I still shake my head in disbelief about whats being done with three tech teams in three different countries, and two product designers, and what was done with ONE Daniel, and ONE tech team in ONE place did..and AVID fired them..it really is sad, Joe.
>as well as fixing the top 5 causes of crashes,
OMG..so you fixed either:
a) long term crashes which should have been fixed wayyy before now and your tech teams lacked the skill to do so or
b) stuff thats recently crashing caused by your tech team programming "features" and breaking OTHER stuff?
Im sorry--which is it Joe?
>Avid is going through a significant transformation at levels way beyond my role and Sibelius as a product, and of course no one likes seeing colleagues go.
Ahh..so youre actually NOT privy to if SIb is also going to be seeing layoffs, yet you keep saying they wont?
>We've got a strong team together of incredibly experienced programmers.
"Incredibly experienced programmers", Joe? OMG--please Joe--dont insult my intelligence. Does this include the ones in Kiev who couldnt cut it, and thus Montreal was set up, and now we hear first mention of ANOTHER team in Poland? and with these "incredibly experienced programmers" Joe..Sib 8 and 8.1 was ALL they could come up with?
(IIRC Sib 7.5 was almost ALL Daniel et al's work, as could also possibly be SIb 8 and 8.1,, yet you are taking bows for it)
>We are making a concerted effort to listen and respond to the concerns of our users. I don't expect to fix everything overnight.
OMG..is this REALLY true? FINALLY after all that had to be done to be listened to, or just more of this "remedial PR" being so heftily thrown about?. You repeat it awfully much, but I still see things like the subscription plan in place, hefty punishment if you fall of the wagon, etc etc..Of course you'll say its beyond your control, as usual, instead of doing something about it..
In fact I was just looking today for an old post by Sam which said they were rethinking that hefty punishment, and no one responded to it at that time. Whatever happened to that?
>I welcome constructive criticism. Many of the fixes in 8.1 are directly as a result of conversations I've had with users on this very forum. We're actively sharing our roadmap with our beta testers these days too. You can expect more of that going forward.
ALL of this is coming about as a result of you NOT doing this in the past, and users not accepting it, and speaking up and you losing users.., And now things are supposed to STAY this way? And again, I hear a VERY loud outcry for bug fixes LONG overdue, and notation improvements which are going unanswered? Why arent you listening to THOSE users also, Joe?
The belief is that your THREE tech teams simply lack the ability to do such things, although being such "incredibly experienced programmers"....
Sorry Joe..count me out as a believer of any of this, but I sure do wish it was true. But Im too old, fat, and sick to accept this same kind of bs AGAIN. Its just an insult to those who know better, and have been around, and arent taken in with the"friends" stuff, but love Sib and have been using it faithfully for years, and see what its become..and becoming..
Thanks Bob
PS I mulled it over long and hard whether to post this or not, but Joes response simple couldnt go by unchallenged. And I do realize many users are "friends' with Joe on FB, and anything said here might be construed as attacking a friend of yours--but it has to do with Sib, only... Also, I havent tried Sib 8 or the "new Sib" or whatever else its now called, as Im seriously NOT impressed enough by any of it, though this rest avoidance feature seems to be well spoken of.. I still consider mp3 conversion a nothing feature that took literally, a few seconds with a FREE good 3rd party conversion, and is being touted by many as the greatest thing since sliced bread, mostly I think because they dont know of these programs that do it simply, fast and elegantly, or it wouldnt seem like such a big deal. Again for Macs theres XLD: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xld/
And as for the timing of the latest update--how fortuitous that it was released at the very same time when NAMM was here! Why was it held back, Joe?
PPS Gotta stop now..I need medicine, a good woman, chocolate, and a new lease on life..and ALL i have is, yeah you guessed it-- the medicine--LOL:)
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Bob Morabito
Sib 5.2.5, 6.2, 7.1.3. 7.5.1
Mac OS 10.9.5 iMac 32GB RAM, 1 TB SSD
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