Jayme
New member
Before I begin, I would like to excuse my spelling (I'm half Spanish).
I'm quite vexed at the moment; to the point of wanting to have a good old rant, bringing up an interesting point, for those who would like to hear and share it.
Here are just a few of the many annoyances I have encountered, thanks to upgrades:
In my years of music making I have been accumulating my own arsenal of hardware and software products.
It seems to be that every time I bought something new, I'd end up losing something else; I bought Sampletank, Halion 1, and cubase vst32 when I had windows98 (Sampletank wasn't compatible with 98, even though it said so on the box!!!) so I upgraded to xp and spent ages waiting for updates for my other programs and drivers, some of which never came out.
Then I bought a Mackie Onyx 400f, that was great! Until service pack 2 came out. It messed up everything! The firewire didn't work properly and I spent months searching for a fix, which finally came, but even though I installed it, there was still a problem with compatibility between the Mackie and SP2.
I gave up and went back to service pack 1. Not being able to use service pack 2, or 3 lead to compatibility problems with software I wanted to buy.
So I decided to put up with what I had and move on..
I went on to buy Ivory, Ezdrummer, Guitar Rig 1 (later upgraded to 2 then 3) and other bits and bobs..
For a while all was well, I only bought programs that didn't require SP2 or 3, until...
Windows vista.
My blood boils from just hearing the name;
I bought a laptop and paid to have Vista as an operating system, thinking that a newer operating system would be better than the old.
I had all sorts of problems; programs not working, drivers not working, no cpu or ram left to work with, e.t.c..
I lost lots of programs because they were old and had obviously been discontinued due to the fact that they had no foreseeable update.
I was forced to re-buy the programs I needed, just because of newer software!
Clearly "Microsoft works" is an oxymoron!
So.. I'd paid good money for something that was worse than what I had before! Unfortunately, and irritably, I was in a position where I couldn't send the laptop back due to the fact that it was the only computer I had, and I needed it there and then.
Anyway, I looked into going back to xp, but I couldn't find the supported drivers, or BIOS update.
Then I found out that Windows 7 was coming out! I read a ton of reviews; people saying that it was amazing! And how Vista was like a prototype of 7!
...I moved on to Windows 7.
Yeah, it's good. But I was stiffed with vista and annoyed! They should have given me a windows 7 update from vista for free!!
Komplete 6 and Guitar Rig 4 were added to the collection...
Then, all of a sudden, my Mackie Onyx 400f stopped working.
My computer won't recognize it anymore! I have made no hardware or software changes and all of the correct drivers and updates are correctly installed.
I think the unit was one of the faulty ones (whiny noise when you have the volume nob less than halfway) and at the time I just thought that it was my setup, making the noise. So I just put up with it.
When I finally found out that there were a bunch of onyx 400f that were duff my warranty had already run out, so I was stuck with a duff one and trying to contact Mackie for help is a joke!
My eyes are now set on the FOCUSRITE LIQUID SAFFIRE 56, but I've got a lot of saving to do.
I think that there should be more support for people who by hardware and software, I'm sick of buying products that only last for a couple of years!
My point is this:
What do we get from paying for software instead of cracking it?
Hassle.
Thanks for the support!
Our loyalty goes unrewarded.
I'm quite vexed at the moment; to the point of wanting to have a good old rant, bringing up an interesting point, for those who would like to hear and share it.
Here are just a few of the many annoyances I have encountered, thanks to upgrades:
In my years of music making I have been accumulating my own arsenal of hardware and software products.
It seems to be that every time I bought something new, I'd end up losing something else; I bought Sampletank, Halion 1, and cubase vst32 when I had windows98 (Sampletank wasn't compatible with 98, even though it said so on the box!!!) so I upgraded to xp and spent ages waiting for updates for my other programs and drivers, some of which never came out.
Then I bought a Mackie Onyx 400f, that was great! Until service pack 2 came out. It messed up everything! The firewire didn't work properly and I spent months searching for a fix, which finally came, but even though I installed it, there was still a problem with compatibility between the Mackie and SP2.
I gave up and went back to service pack 1. Not being able to use service pack 2, or 3 lead to compatibility problems with software I wanted to buy.
So I decided to put up with what I had and move on..
I went on to buy Ivory, Ezdrummer, Guitar Rig 1 (later upgraded to 2 then 3) and other bits and bobs..
For a while all was well, I only bought programs that didn't require SP2 or 3, until...
Windows vista.
My blood boils from just hearing the name;
I bought a laptop and paid to have Vista as an operating system, thinking that a newer operating system would be better than the old.
I had all sorts of problems; programs not working, drivers not working, no cpu or ram left to work with, e.t.c..
I lost lots of programs because they were old and had obviously been discontinued due to the fact that they had no foreseeable update.
I was forced to re-buy the programs I needed, just because of newer software!
Clearly "Microsoft works" is an oxymoron!
So.. I'd paid good money for something that was worse than what I had before! Unfortunately, and irritably, I was in a position where I couldn't send the laptop back due to the fact that it was the only computer I had, and I needed it there and then.
Anyway, I looked into going back to xp, but I couldn't find the supported drivers, or BIOS update.
Then I found out that Windows 7 was coming out! I read a ton of reviews; people saying that it was amazing! And how Vista was like a prototype of 7!
...I moved on to Windows 7.
Yeah, it's good. But I was stiffed with vista and annoyed! They should have given me a windows 7 update from vista for free!!
Komplete 6 and Guitar Rig 4 were added to the collection...
Then, all of a sudden, my Mackie Onyx 400f stopped working.
My computer won't recognize it anymore! I have made no hardware or software changes and all of the correct drivers and updates are correctly installed.
I think the unit was one of the faulty ones (whiny noise when you have the volume nob less than halfway) and at the time I just thought that it was my setup, making the noise. So I just put up with it.
When I finally found out that there were a bunch of onyx 400f that were duff my warranty had already run out, so I was stuck with a duff one and trying to contact Mackie for help is a joke!
My eyes are now set on the FOCUSRITE LIQUID SAFFIRE 56, but I've got a lot of saving to do.
I think that there should be more support for people who by hardware and software, I'm sick of buying products that only last for a couple of years!
My point is this:
What do we get from paying for software instead of cracking it?
Hassle.
Thanks for the support!
Our loyalty goes unrewarded.