Originally posted by Diki:
I get the impression that the open arranger mind is like the guy who is more concerned with building the car than driving it. You might be almost correct there...
But its more like this
Building the car
Driving the car
Finetuning the car
Driving the car
Improving the car
Driving the car
Improving the car
Driving the car
Updating the car
Driving the car...
Open arranger people do drive, and maybe even a lot. But they also like to play with the mechanics of their toy car.
But if you are dependant on your car for your work, constantly breking things down in your car to rebuild them might not be a good idea... You need atleast 2 cars to do this. As your first car should allways be fully operational.
I myself belong to the people (>90% of arranger players do) that don't gig, but just play at home, and for us it doesn't really matter if a keyboard is not working for 2 days (and a lot of time invested) as long as it improves continually.
But for for professional players and others dependent on their instruments, you really made a point there. Those people can't afford to play around to much with new feautures and need to have a working system every night...
So either they need 2 open Mediastations or Dom needs to implement a backup system that lets you store the whole system including all VSt's ans setting on an immage on an external hard disk... When things go wrong, you could allways store back the image, which should work rather quick for a USB3 device even if there are 100's of GB's data.
If Dom can implement this on MEdiastation, you might have helped to improve Mediastation and other open keyboards with your wise remark
Thanks Diki for the constructive remarks