newrigel wrote:Well... I have problems too but I try to read the manual and then if there's something that I just can't grasp, then I look to this great bunch here to help me and I try not to have conjecture when I ask a question so I don't catch too much flack he he. I'm not the most savvy guy out there but there's times you have to really reflect on your post focus so that you can get a response that's helpful and concise.
Okay, let's put this to bed.
- I read the manual. The *whole* manual. Front to back. Nowhere did it mention that up to date versions of the product wouldn't validate under Logic. The problems I'm having are with, specifically, a lack of information.
- I came here before I bought the product. I didn't see big FAQs saying "expect this to not work" or "expect that to not work". Again, this is specifically with the AudioUnit version of MachFive.
It would have been nice to find out, somewhere, before I bought the product, the fact that though other forms got multiple output channels, AudioUnits did not. It would have been nice to know while I was trying to install the product that I could expect it to not validate; those of you who "grew" with the product used it when validation wasn't required, and lived through 7.1->7.1.1 as it happened - it wasn't news for you. For someone installing the product from scratch today, it's a real kick in the shin.
I made the mistake of putting my foot in it, and I shouldn't have. Wish I hadn't. At this point, all I can do is recommend that someone makes a sticky on the MachFive thread for new users to tell them the problems they can *expect* to have when they install the product.
Whether or not anyone does that... well, that's their business. I've done what I needed to do: I've written a blog entry that describes my first 48 hours, and my gripes, and in another week or so, anyone looking for information from Google on it will at least have *something* they can find that can warn them of what they might encounter.
My mistake was that I felt very strongly that this is the place that I could have found out about these problems from, but didn't. My post was as much for the next me in a shop as it was for myself - and I'll happily apologise for darkening folks' doorstep with that. But unless someone takes their foot out and does something, I doubt I'll be the last. Getting the AudioUnit version of MachFive up and running isn't fun at the moment, and a sticky would go a long way towards warning new users as to what they can expect, thus defusing possibly explosive posts, like my own, that take place after a day trying to get this stuff to work.
At the moment, I'm back on the fence again. The lack of multiple outs makes the multi version of the plugin seem pretty pointless, and so now I've got to go through and benchmark memory usage on how much memory each stereo instance is going to take up.
You guys do what you want - it's your forums. I came here for information, the information wasn't here, and I think that's a damn shame. Buyer should have been a lot more ware than he was. End of story, end of post, end of thread - move on, it just doesn't matter. It was written the wrong way, it was taken the wrong way, and it's been followed up to with every possible kind of response. It's an ex-parrot.
I might be back if I actually have problems I need help with - but nobody here can help me with the fact that the product doesn't actually do what it says on the tin. Ultimately, that's the point of the original post, and my disappointment. Ultimately, that's where I felt the forum left me down - for better or worse, regardless of whether you feel I "should" have felt that way or not - those are my feelings.
Let's just put this all behind us. I don't need or want this to continue. Nobody's going to convince me I was wrong to post, and I'm not going to convince anyone that the post belongs exactly where it was. That's life.
