HA! that doesn't make any sense. No Daniel, you can't blame others for your lack of comprehension. It almost feels like you are trying to spread FUD. Maybe you didn't like that Spitfire stopped giving you NFRs or Paul ignored your attempt to create more controversy. The Jerry Springer Show, VI edition. It’s your name at the top for weeks, thousands of views and that sweet exposure. I understand their choice to ignore you, after all, it's easy to see that behind that "I'm only trying to help and happy to be proven wrong" banner, there's a guy who likes to repeat himself like an echo chamber over and over and over until the other part gives up in exhaustion. Here's an example: even though Spitfire was 100% transparent and gave us a manual with all articulations, demos and walkthroughs weeks prior to the release, still you insistently questioned the sound of the library. Your own misconception of the “Hans Zimmer brand”, as you like to call. Pages and pages of “where’s Pirates, Batman and Gladiator?” to the point that the man himself had to step in and basically say “dude, you are tripping balls”. Not fair to put him in such a delicate and vulnerable spot, like he was some sort of one trick pony.
If you really want to help this community, you should be the first to set the example and show how important is to know your virtual instruments. This is not a toy, this is a professional tool. I know it’s your channel, your viewers, but if you want to be taken seriously out of your safe space, consider behaving like a professional. And by that I don’t mean the potty mouth thing, I couldn’t care less about that, I mean preparing yourself better instead of taking the easy way out by saying you are recreating the average Joe experience. There’s nothing wrong about reading the fucking manual, it’s there for a reason. I bet if they saw Daniel James engaged in extracting the most out of the product they paid $800 for, your 5 hour video would be much more useful than it actually is. Again, you have a great opportunity to educate people, so why not do it?
Fair enough, but how about practicing what you preach? For example, you kept questioning and ridiculing Spitfire's choice of including a "bottle mic position", it was a recurring gag during your review. The thing is, Spitfire did include an info box at the bottom left corner explaining exactly what the bottle mic does and either you chose to ignore it, or you were too focused in bashing the library for the sake of it.
While I agree that a $800 product tested for 5 months (according to Paul) shouldn't have those nasty legatos or Win 10 breaking bugs, I think you are blowing issues way out of proportion. Shit happens, you should know better as a dev yourself. And the mob mentality here is just sad to see.
To quote from a nice article: https://bokardo.com/principles-of-user-interface-design/
"Clarity is job #1
Clarity is the first and most important job of any interface. To be effective using an interface you've designed, people must be able to recognize what it is, care about why they would use it, understand what the interface is helping them interact with, predict what will happen when they use it, and then successfully interact with it. While there is room for mystery and delayed gratification in interfaces, there is no room for confusion. Clarity inspires confidence and leads to further use. One hundred clear screens is preferable to a single cluttered one."
Also I think you misunderstand what an echo chamber is. Thats when lots of people who all have the same opinion talk about that subject then just agree with each other without a dissenting voice. What you are referencing is my tenacity to make sure what I am saying is not being misrepresented by responding to any post or comment that didn't get what I was saying or implying I said something other than I did. I am just debating the point, I have conseeded on some things (if you care to read) and am trying to find middle ground with everyone involved.
And to your other point no I am not spiteful towards companies that don't send me NFR's, there are many companies who don't want to deal with my honesty but I still talk about their libraries and we have good honest discourse. Something I am all for!
If you really want to have the conversation about brands again send me a PM or go read the pages where I explain all about brands, public perception of them and how they can be interpreted. For example
because it was called Hans Zimmer Strings I thought that was going to somehow sound like Hans Zimmer...or at least the Hans Zimmer I know. But I admitted that was my misunderstanding nd going forward I know that Hans Zimmer on Spitfire product doesnt mean it will sound like Hans Zimmer. You see we moved forward on a subject though civil discourse.
Haha haven't you seen me debating here???, haven't you seen me countless times call people and companies out for things I disagree with??? how can that be considered 'retiring to my safe space' ....It sounds like you may have been spending too much time indulging yourself in 'Facebook Political Debates' its all name calling and anger with you isnt it XD
And mate...for this kind of product I am the average Joe....no one who doesnt work in the audio field is impulse buying Hans Zimmer Strings out of the blue. So I am their audience, a composer. There are no composers out there who know every single aspect of every single product they own for their work so to say I am any less professional because I happen to not get every aspect of every library ever delivered to me is a bit of a stretch.
I do know my libraries pretty well, I work without a template and I know what does what. I have done in depth overviews of quite a few libraries by this point so you can see the level to which I dig into them. I also make them so I have a fair idea how they work too. I have spent time looking into and discussing things like UI design, human psychology and the ways people interact with things both visually and sonically...its something of a hobby for me. So knowing how deep I dive into libraries and the things I have learned about the way customers interact with UI's from both a developer and customer side.... I genuinely do believe that if I missed something in one of the many overviews I have done it is more the fault of the UI for not making it clear what I should do to make something work than it is me just being amateur.
Your whole post seems like its coming from pure anger rather than actually wanting to have a rational chat about any of this. There is a thread which is over 20 pages and I have a video of over 5 hours. If you don't get my position by now thats on you mate. If you don't like what I say or the way I do them, don't keep watching me. You really don't have to if it causes you so much angst. Like I say, I am free to do these things how I want to, and I present them as fair open and honest as I can. If you disagree with a point thats fine, but I don't have to agree with your disagreement.
I feel I am doing my bit to help the community! I jump in and help out where its relevant, I do composition livestreams an hours and hours of sample library reviews/vlogs/interviews on Youtube. What are you contributing? because if you are implying I don't care about helping the community you are very wrong mate. Life would be much more relaxing if I didn't care about composing and composers so much xD (I'd definitely sleep more)
Also don't get all aggressive and then scream mob mentality. There are plenty of people on both sides of these healthy debates. Don't start crying victim just to stop people talking.
-DJ