JazzyGB1 wrote:The fact is your dongleless KLC works just fine on your PPC Mac & would continue to do so if you still had it. YOU decided to purchase an Intel Mac, Korg didn't tell you to do so, so any problems you are having are YOUR fault.
You've moved the goal posts - NOT Korg & now you are whinging about it.
I respectfully disagree about pretty much all of the above.
When I used to buy hardware synths, Alesis reverbs, and when I buy a car today, I don't find those products linked to other aspects of my life, irrelevant to said product.
my Alesis Midiverb 2 still serves me well after 19 years, and this is because it is not subordinate to my sequencer or any other tool in the studio: thankfully quarter inch jacks are still compatible today
Your argument of comparing to your car is not a fully fledged comparison. It would be if your car could only operate properly provided you still lived at the adress you declared when buying the car, and still use it to do the same route to your workplace. any change to home or work adress would render your car unusable. THat's a fair comparison.
Thankfully a car allows for much more freedom, and it "updates" itself to allow you driving from your new home to your new place of work silently and effortlessly. hardware is expensive, but lasts much longer than software because it can ADAPT to our changing circumstances.
Audio Plugins, Alas, do not enjoy the same freedom and therefore do not let us enjoy the same freedom.
Audio plugins are at the very end of a food chain that starts with your workstation, then your operating system, then your audio host, then your
other plugins and then "it". It has to be at peace with
all of the abovein order to let you enjoy it without trouble.
So what If I decided to buy a new mac because only that one will run the new version of my host that fixes a longstanding bug that prevents me from working??? does this qualify as "my choice" or is it just one of the many tweaks I have to make to get everything running "as advertized"?
Or what if it's because my day job (done on the same computer) needs me to install and run another app that is only compatible with the new machine???
I cannot be asked to keep a second/third computer just for a little plugin, no?
Also, I get tired of comparisons between brick/mortar stuff and software. It is not the same. It's a different world and when I'm buying software, I realize it's the ultimate "perishable before you're done with it consumer goods". I realize that none of the current artists will be able to revisit their current work if they leave it in their DAW, because it'll be impossible to restore a complete 2006 computer system in 2040. Impossible to re-authorize the plugins, to get anything installed without a major hassle... unless people start freezing computers in their garage, which is a completely bogus proposition.
Sure, software is cheaper, and allows multiple instances, and weight zero in your luggage. This is why I bother. The computer-based studio has new rules, like quick change. This is sometimes good for the developpers. It has to remain good for users.
This is not, however, a rant against KORG. I know KLC didn't sell like mad. I know the intel update is costly and throughout the world people are spending time on this they'd rather spend on something else. But a plugin cannot be blocking someone from updating it's main apps for half a year, without it looking bad.
Strangely, though, the major DAW apps were updated AGES AGO. all of them. And they are made of dozens of times more computer code than plugins are, and often come from fairly small companies... weird, that....
I paid around $450 for my KLC. Now it is being sold for $140 (new, in store) and widely available here in France at this price. So I cannot even resell this investment because it has lost 80% of its value.
This too is "the new world". It would never have happened with my older car, because car prices never go down that much in so little time.
yours
maxpol
