@McD How do you not understand people wanting improvement? As a species, we constantly improve everything around us and have throughout all of our history. I am a software engineer and it’s my job to constantly be improving the things I work on. We’re always trying to push the boundaries of our technology. I don’t want to be spoon fed updates and I wasn’t asking for it. I was asking for the software to be open sourced so I can implement the ability to set loop points. Think of it like a mechanic who isn’t allowed to modify their car because there’s a magical shield surrounding it by the company who made the car. I just wanna add a cold air intake and I should be able to do that if I want. If I ruin my car in the process, that’s on me.
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Why don’t you go and write your own code from scratch and flash that onto the device? I’m sure you’re free to do that.
Updates are a peculiar thing. I look forward to them as much as the next guy, but often seem to be happier with older devices whose last update was years before I got one. Exactly because then you wont waste time/energy waiting for that elusive update that fixes that one thing you have with it. Everybody always has one.
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yea - i mean its fine to want things - but there’s something to be said for working with what’s available as well and not letting a missing feature stop you from making music with the best sequencer ever created (pyramid being that sequencer). “a fine line” i suppose.
For me the only thing that makes me consider replacing the Pyramid for live use is the lack of a song loader, such as using program changes to load the next project. The workarounds aren’t very practical and I already have all my songs built in the Pyramid so it makes sense to take it on the road over another device!
For studio use I can hardly fault it though. It’s very powerful for such a small box. There are many ‘nice to have’ options - some of which seem like they’d be easy to implement (dotted/triplet timing for ARPs, MIDI delays, etc).
I’m wondering if there are other companies in a similar space/with a similar business model that can continue to improve the software for their hardware products without losing money?
A lot of software manufacturers have gone down the subscription route which probably isn’t an option for Squarp, but I’d happily pay to upgrade to a ‘Mk4’ version and for future releases thereafter. £50 or £100 for a lot of new features wouldn’t be unreasonable, and it would provide Squarp with an additional revenue stream.
vhs - what features do you have on the RS7000 that make it favourable over the Pyramid?
I think I saw in the manual that you can draw in your own LFOs which I always thought was cool - similar to the Pyramid’s CC editor. I’ve almost bought one a couple of times, even if it is a bit large and a few years old! (QY700 was also on the shopping list at one point)
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