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- From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
- Subject: Re: Music Contruction set to Soundsmith
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.061917.11693@utstat.uucp>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <m0mCobP-0000ABC@crash.cts.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 06:19:17 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <m0mCobP-0000ABC@crash.cts.com> kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan) writes:
-
- [ ]
- >
- >SoundSmith v1.0 did support Midi Input. The interface was crude but usable.
- >SoundSmith v1.0 will not ever see the official light of day, because some
- >beta-tester for SevenHills Software released it on a pirate board, which
- >pissed off the author, who then stopped all further work on the project
-
- Sounds like a petty thing to do, both on the part of the beta tester and
- the author of SoundSmith.
- >
- >THIS IS THE DAMAGED CAUSED BY PIRACY! The rest of the story is this,
- >SevenHills was mainly interested in a complete overhaul of the program so as
- >to give the Midi part a decent interface, the author was willing to do this,
- >until the piracy business came out. SevenHills was pissed, the author was
- >pissed, and the rest of the GS community should be pissed.
-
- Surely you don't expect us to believe that one beta tester who behaved
- inappropriately was the cause of all this. The author sounds, to me, like
- a 2 year old. There are a heck of a lot more of us out there than one beta
- tester and those who got access to the program. I'm not saying this because
- I never appreciated SS in the first place [SynthLab is a far better building
- block], but if the author of SS really cared about the GS community and
- his work he certainly would have finished the project. This whole story
- is ridiculous.
- >
- >Yes, I'm a SevenHills beta tester and I'm pissed. SevenHills beta-testing
- >procedure is more security conscious now (and less people too). I don't know
- >who the irresponsible beta-testers were, nor if they were caught.
-
- Well, perhaps Seven Hills should realize that the sales of SS1.0 would not
- have been affected one way or another. Even I, who dislikes the program,
- would have bought it.
-
- Philip McDunnough
- philip@utstat.toronto.edu
-