There were angry times, then slate released trigger and everybody was happy and said "sorry for everything i have said about it, it just rocks so much". Now that the euphory has passed, it's angry time again.
And on and on
Yeah, and it does rock - it's just not usable in it's current form.
When Trigger was originally announced, there was ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION of the Instrument Maker being a separate program or that it would come 3-4 weeks AFTER the release of the plugin. We only found this out after buying the plugin, trying and failing to load our own multisampled sets, and then asking on the forum.
No mention of it on the site.
No mention of it in the manual.
We had to ASK why an advertised portion of the plugin wasn't included, and now we have to wait even longer to use it as intended.
Honestly, in my opinion, this was an effort on Slate's part to get Trigger released well before Drumagog5, despite the fact that the complete plugin WAS NOT FINISHED.
I knew what was coming with Trigger, I never pushed for early release, then demanded that it have more features than possible given it was rushed out to meet demand.
This is precisely the problem... we thought we knew what was coming with Trigger, expected it on the release date they set, and then didn't receive it. Regardless of whether or not it was rushed, it was released as an incomplete product, something it seems Slate does without fail so far.
Again, I dig the products for the most part, but a business model built on releasing half-assed projects and finishing them up after release as an 'update' is total bullshit. Until the track record is improved, this is most definitely my last purchase from Yellow (Brown?) Matter Entertain(t)ment.
