Originally posted by Tom Cavanaugh:
I'm sorry but I don't get it. I've got to defend Dominic and Liontracks. Both Dominic and Liontracks heve heard nothing but grief and sarcasim every since they introduced their product. It is obvious that they are a low budget operation trying to make a go of it. Also maybe they are better computer people than they are marketing people.
Many of us would love to have an arranger completly upgradable by software. An arranger that could use any of the excellent samples available commercially. It was exactly that premise that convinced me to purchase a Ketron X1. Unfortunately Ketron abandoned the X1 and reniged on their promise. I hope Liontracks puts all of them out of business.
I can understand Dominic's attitude. He and his company IMO were never givin a fair chance.
At least Squeak and Donny have keep their minds open and the snide comments out of their posts.
I don't want to keep worshiping at the thrown of Yamaha or any of the rest of them. They are milking us everytime they introduce a new product that is nothing more than the old product with a couple of features that they could have included on the prior model.
Let's wish Liontracks all the success in the world.
Tom
Tom, I agree with giving a chance and all that and lease add me to Squeak and Donny as a supporter to the whole Mediastation concept but there is a certain way to conduct business, and Lionstracs or Domenico or whoever is posting here, is not aware of that.
As you said, they are perhaps more computer persons than a marketing persons and we know there is a huge difference between the two.
As I stated in a heated discussion in August, regarding a kind of offer "Mediastation for styles" that Domenico wrote about, IMHO Domenico was not the right person to represent the company, at least in this forum and in writing and in the English language, regardless if he owned the company or not. Too hot tempered, too protective to his "brainchild" the Mediastation, too deaf to realise what is constructive criticism trying to help and what is just written with the purpose of bashing his product/company/him. Please take a look at my posts in
http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/Forum37/HTML/010918-2.html and you'll see what I mean.
Apart from very few, most of the guys here simply stated that they would like to try the keyboard in person so they could evaluate, and they asked for better quality demos, they simply got answers like "you can't realise the arranger revolution going on, you are not good enough to judge me or my product, etc"
In a old book for sales I read once (those pocket "100 ways to sell" things), they tried to be humorous and wrote "Try to see the General Manager directly, don't see the accountant, because after you sell the idea to the accountant, he will have to sell it himself to the General Manager, and if accountants could sell, they wouldn't be accountants, they would be salesmen"
Now substitute the word "accountant" with "engineer".
IMHO, everything Domenico said in this forum was coming from the lips of an accountant/engineer/programmer, and that was his problem. Mediastation may be good enough, maybe brilliant, but he can't present it the right way. People here still wait for demos with acceptable sound. If they like it, and they think it will enhance their show and bring money to their pockets/families, they will buy it. Domenico seems to not realise that.
Sorry for the length of my post, I'll slung back to my hole now,
Theodore
[This message has been edited by trident (edited 12-08-2005).]