Timeline wrote:Purchased 8 yesterday. Hoping for the best. Demo was pretty good. Lost a bunch of stuff like Waves, Hypersonic, Virtual Guitar and a few I didn't care about. Some of it due to Mavericks though. I can buy my way back to Waves for 85 bucks so in time I will be doing that. Hyper and Steinberg stuff gone for good and I loved those VI's.
Software is like kids. It's always growing up, leaving home, misbehaving, and usually getting a lot smarter. Unlike kids, you're always getting new software. I remember back in about 1993, I had my system just like I wanted it, and I was happy. I was becoming a master in much of my software, practicing and using it constantly. Then things got upgraded. My Radius tilt monitor would no longer "tilt" (rotate from horizontal to vertical) with my computer, and Radius told me it was my problem; they weren't supporting my computer, even though it was brand new. (Quadra 660 AV) For a while I was very upset! Gradually I came to live with the fact that no system is ever going to stay put. You'll never get more than about 6 months without some major change that you've got to put up with.
Heck, I remember when Waves officially stopped supporting DP. I had 3 years of WUP paid for. 18 months later (maybe more), they started supporting DP again. I never got back the WUP I'd paid for. When I complained, they gave me a few months, but that was all.
I've spent so much money on software I could probably buy a huge house with the same amount. But then I would be doing something different for a living, and maybe I wouldn't be making that kind of money to begin with. Oh well.
I'm just rambling, Gary. Don't mind me. Just thinking back on all the disappointments and expenses of upgrades. But in the end, you get something better. You just have to remember that and get used to the new thing. That, in turn, requires more practice. That's probably the hardest part of it: the time you put into mastering something is often wasted when it turns obsolete. So, we learn to put in the minimum time it takes to learn the new changes, but we no longer strive for perfection and mastery, because we know it's going to change again.
The computer revolution has been crazy. I think the iOS stuff has finally gotten the right model for everything: it updates itself, and the apps cost $3 or less. I've got a hundred apps for less than I paid for Photoshop, and I've bought Photoshop outright — full retail — at least 5 times!!! It's time for things to just work, for upgrades to happen on their own without causing us any discomfort, and for prices to stay reasonable. That seems to be the new trend.
Oh well... best of luck with the new stuff.
Shooshie
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