Drumagog 5 is reworked together with the Fraunhofer Institute. Consequently I would´nt bet my money on anything short of 'brilliant' as a result. But I own Drumagog and the company seriously let me down and i´m unable to use it anymore! I had my computer serviced for harddrive problems. As a result my authorisation got corrupted. All attempts to get Drumagog going again failed. The company was kind enough to give me details of the necessary procedures of which.NONE. Well that´s another 500 bucks down the drain. I never have this kind of problem with companies that use Ilok! It was a very timeconsuming and frustrating experience which let me to the conclusion that there is 2 types of companies, 1. Makes it easy for their customer, 2. Makes it easy for themselves. Recently, I started using the Steven Slate Drums. I am extremely pleased. The extra air and depth of the sounds is a fine upgrade to my drumagog library. Drumagog falls into category 2 for me. I think this round, all 3 contenders will trigger the samples in phase. For me, it comes down to my existing library of GOG files. SPL's Xchanger looks cool, but the current library with the demo is not really useable for me, and it's gonna be a little while before their library expands, along with 3rd party. Have never liked Slate's drum samples, so I'm not really interested in Trigger, as it's sure to only have Slate style pop/rock samples available for some time. I'm not interested in spending time making my own multi-samples for any of them. So it means more than likely, I'll go with Drumagog 5 when it's out. I can still use all my GOG libraries, and there's plenty more available right now from 3rd partys. Drumagog FTW. I absolutely love my steven slate samples so part of me wants to support their new product. But i've used drumagog for so long and it has never failed me. Both gui's look awesome. And i am a little bored of the old drumagog interface. The old gog/sample viewer can be really annoying when i'm trying to scroll through the slate samples to find one i like. It looks nice to have the visual sampler on the same screen without having to click back and forth. Ah decisions. I think i'll have to wait til after the initial reactions and feedback. It's about as 'later in July' as you can get. I think they're takin' a page from the Slate book of product release.I like Rim and I believe in him. I'm sure he encountered some technical challenges pursuing his vision and is working through them in a methodical and painstaking way. Trying to innovate and keep a high standard of execution is rough going sometimes. I don't know the guy personally, but I was always impressed with the tone and helpfulness of his email responses to questions/problems back in the day when I first bought Drumagog, all those years ago. I say let's have patience. This 'who's gonna win the race' concept makes me wanna wretch. And it's illogical. Ideally, if you perceive a competitive market as a consumer, wouldn't you want to wait and see what each has to offer? - cCouldn't agree more. Further, it isn't just bad for the consumer to buy a product before examining the competition: by publicly threatening to buy a competitor's product because the original isn't ready for release, we encourage developers to release products before they're ready (in order to beat competitors) and end up suffering as beta testers when we should just be making music.
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