Comments on: When Users Take Over Plugins: Wusik Buyout? http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/05/26/when-users-take-over-plugins-wusik-buyout/ The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:24:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: underbiteman http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/05/26/when-users-take-over-plugins-wusik-buyout/#comment-1067 underbiteman Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:28:56 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/05/26/when-users-take-over-plugins-wusik-buyout/#comment-1067 http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2005/Wusikstation-20.html Just saw this. So I guess things worked out? http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2005/Wusikstation-20.html

Just saw this. So I guess things worked out?

]]> By: Guest http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/05/26/when-users-take-over-plugins-wusik-buyout/#comment-1066 Guest Fri, 27 May 2005 21:37:56 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/05/26/when-users-take-over-plugins-wusik-buyout/#comment-1066 This makes little or no sense. If a software product dies (and is reasonably stable), it makes sense to just continue using it. To pay $12,000 for source code won't do you much good -- the only one with the intimate knowledge to continue development and debug is the original developer. Chances are, there's little or no technical documentation and a wonky (or non existent) API to core code. This makes little or no sense. If a software product dies (and is reasonably stable), it makes sense to just continue using it. To pay $12,000 for source code won’t do you much good — the only one with the intimate knowledge to continue development and debug is the original developer. Chances are, there’s little or no technical documentation and a wonky (or non existent) API to core code.

]]> By: Guest http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/05/26/when-users-take-over-plugins-wusik-buyout/#comment-1065 Guest Fri, 27 May 2005 12:36:42 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/05/26/when-users-take-over-plugins-wusik-buyout/#comment-1065 "My wife and I cried for 3 days. Not nice." - WilliamK in an email sent to Wusik users. "I've diligently supported William for a long time now, close to two & a half years. I've kept my anger to myself when buying a full collection of Reaktor ensembles that were only to be discontinued weeks later. I preordered a drummachine & after several months was told that the idea was scraped & I would recieve 'store credit' that I didn't ask for and never used. I was the announcer for William for the first Wusikstation group buy & put all my weight behind it. One condition of the group buy that William & I discussed as a selling point was participants were to recieve a bonus modular FX plugin which would recieve regular updates for. Later in that thread William basically said I made this up myself. I have never expressed my outrage of that until RIGHT now. And then there was the whole 1.2/2.0 debacle a few months ago that I stayed out of as much as I could as a last effort to support someone I considered my friend. I'm very disapointed by what I have seen, and that's all there is to it. It's time for a change, and a serious one. This situation places William squarely in the Circle of Traitors alongside Donnie Christiansen, and I really hate to say that, but it's the truth. William, you and Theo were the first people I made aquaintances with in this Digital Audio world. I'm distressed by the many poor decisions I have seen you make. You and I have had MANY private conversations where I employed you to retain someone to manage your public relations & help you make sound business decisions. I offered to do this myself at no cost to you because I believed in your abilities. I encourage you to stop everything, take a long walk & ask yourself what you want while you are still in a position to aquire it for yourself. Your clients are not going to tolerate much more self indulgence from you. I know as of this moment I am not at all. Best wishes, and may your future path be truer than the one you have walked till now." - Sickle 666 on KVR forum http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88733&highlight=censorship It's like a slow motion car wreck that you've got a backseat pass for. “My wife and I cried for 3 days. Not nice.”

- WilliamK in an email sent to Wusik users.

“I’ve diligently supported William for a long time now, close to two & a half years. I’ve kept my anger to myself when buying a full collection of Reaktor ensembles that were only to be discontinued weeks later. I preordered a drummachine & after several months was told that the idea was scraped & I would recieve ’store credit’ that I didn’t ask for and never used. I was the announcer for William for the first Wusikstation group buy & put all my weight behind it. One condition of the group buy that William & I discussed as a selling point was participants were to recieve a bonus modular FX plugin which would recieve regular updates for. Later in that thread William basically said I made this up myself. I have never expressed my outrage of that until RIGHT now. And then there was the whole 1.2/2.0 debacle a few months ago that I stayed out of as much as I could as a last effort to support someone I considered my friend.

I’m very disapointed by what I have seen, and that’s all there is to it. It’s time for a change, and a serious one. This situation places William squarely in the Circle of Traitors alongside Donnie Christiansen, and I really hate to say that, but it’s the truth. William, you and Theo were the first people I made aquaintances with in this Digital Audio world. I’m distressed by the many poor decisions I have seen you make. You and I have had MANY private conversations where I employed you to retain someone to manage your public relations & help you make sound business decisions. I offered to do this myself at no cost to you because I believed in your abilities. I encourage you to stop everything, take a long walk & ask yourself what you want while you are still in a position to aquire it for yourself. Your clients are not going to tolerate much more self indulgence from you. I know as of this moment I am not at all.

Best wishes, and may your future path be truer than the one you have walked till now.”

- Sickle 666 on KVR forum
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88733&highlight=censorship

It’s like a slow motion car wreck that you’ve got a backseat pass for.

]]> By: Guest http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/05/26/when-users-take-over-plugins-wusik-buyout/#comment-1064 Guest Thu, 26 May 2005 21:34:45 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/05/26/when-users-take-over-plugins-wusik-buyout/#comment-1064 i expected this 2 years ago already. The fact that lots of users have direct contact with developers on fora wher thay place comments and suggestions makes them in fact collaborators on a product. Then the groupbuys started to appear. That makes users a sort of shareholders. i expected this 2 years ago already. The fact that lots of users have direct contact with developers on fora wher thay place comments and suggestions makes them in fact collaborators on a product. Then the groupbuys started to appear. That makes users a sort of shareholders.

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