Early Adoptors

malc · 23 Feb 2005

Hi tedburt,

Still early days yet. We haven't spread the word much - been busy working on the software. Were you one of the ones that already signed up? If so many thanks, and thanks also to the others for their early support.

tedburt · 24 Feb 2005

Haven't registered yet, but am seriously considering it!

tedburt · 24 Feb 2005

I meant to ask - if I register now, how long will updates be free for? Will it just be as far as 1.x, then you'd have to upgrade if you release a 2.0?

Cheers, T

malc · 24 Feb 2005

tedburt wrote: Haven't registered yet, but am seriously considering it!

That's great! We started the early adopters programme because people wanted to offer their support and we wanted to give them something back in return.

tedburt wrote: I meant to ask - if I register now, how long will updates be free for? Will it just be as far as 1.x, then you'd have to upgrade if you release a 2.0?

Good question. Whenever you register (be it as an early adopter or after version 1.0 is out) you'll get version 1.0 and all updates to version 1.0. When version 2.0 comes along there will be an upgrade charge, but rest assured it will be good value for money.

I hope this clears things up. If you have any other questions please let me know.

esden9 · 24 Feb 2005

I paid! Synthmaker is cool!

stefan · 24 Feb 2005

It is! And so are you for helping jorge & malc out with the development by registring and paying!

malc · 24 Feb 2005

Too right

Many thanks.

beno · 24 Feb 2005

Bought mine too. Ben

jorge · 24 Feb 2005

Thanks a lot esden9 and beno, I hope we can build a great SM community.

kingtubby · 25 Feb 2005

Seeing as everyone else seems to be announcing their presence - I bought in too!! 😀

Mart

malc · 25 Feb 2005

kingtubby/Mart - much appreciated 🙂

Be sure to let us know what you think and certainly if you have any problems. Documentation is a bit sparse at the moment (won't be long now) so if you need any help this is the place to come.

All the best.

kingtubby · 25 Feb 2005

Thanks for the welcome malc. I've been messing around with modular synth software for 2 or 3 years now. Prior to looking into Synthmaker I hadn't gone beyond linking oscillators, filters, envelopes etc in various ways in Vaz Mod (my fave) and Reaktor, so I should say that my grasp on the lower level stuff in Synthmaker is a bit limited at the moment, to say the least. 😉 It's the overall concept of Synthmaker and the excellent gui/layout that inspired me to take the plunge. I particularly like the way graphics are handled using the gui module and .bmp's and so on. I'm looking forward to seeing some of the first creations from other users, as well as the new documentation - I need it! BTW, is the example synth illustrated in the 'example tour.pdf' available anywhere as it's not the same as the one that installs with 0.9.1a ?

mart

malc · 25 Feb 2005

kingtubby wrote: BTW, is the example synth illustrated in the 'example tour.pdf' available anywhere as it's not the same as the one that installs with 0.9.1a ?

Good question. As you've noticed we updated the example synth for the latest release. The new one is a big improvement on the previous one - well, we think so anyway 😉. We haven't had time yet to write a similar tour doc for this example.

I've uploaded the old example here. I had to do a bit of re-jigging to account for the changes we made between releases. Bear in mind when you look at it that some parts may not exactly match the tour pdf.

When we do write more documentation it'll be in the Docs section of the web site instead of in pdf form.

haydxn · 27 Feb 2005

just confirming my early-adopting to the guys! i'm official! 😉

it still doesn't work properly for me (see bugreports forum) but i'm certain it will prove invaluable so why not give the guys some money, eh? 😀

jorge · 27 Feb 2005

thanks a lot haydxn, all this early adopting is great motivation.

I'll have a look at your bug report. Lately we have been concentrating on creating enough primitives to allow users like stefan to create a proper synth, now reliability is on top of our list of priorities. I think I'll spend some time with Midi and DirectSound as they're the main causes of problems.

haydxn · 27 Feb 2005

thanks for the feedback. i'm very much looking forward to making proper use of this program

Zynewave · 27 Feb 2005

Hi all,

Just paid my 45 Euros to become an early adopter. I have not had much time to work with the actual synth construction in SM, but I'm paying just on the basis of the excellent GUI, and the speed at which this application is evolving. Nicely done!

Frits

malc · 27 Feb 2005

Thanks zynewave, very much appreciated - especially from a fellow dev 🙂

malc · 27 Feb 2005

To all those who have registered, we hadn't quite realised that you might need more than just a paypal receipt to confirm your registration. As a result we'll be sending you all a confirmation email on Monday. If you don't receive anything by the end of tomorrow please let us know via email or this forum.

Apologies for the oversight and thanks once again.

Malc.

bManic · 28 Feb 2005

Just bought my copy! I think this is a great idea and motivates the developers and they finally earn some very well deserved money from their hard work. I hope my donation really helps the porject stay alive as I'd hate to see something so beautiful as synthmaker go down the drain! Cheers guys and keep up the good work!

Yours, bManic

kingtubby · 28 Feb 2005

Zynewave wrote: Hi all,

Just paid my 45 Euros to become an early adopter. I have not had much time to work with the actual synth construction in SM, but I'm paying just on the basis of the excellent GUI, and the speed at which this application is evolving. Nicely done!

Frits

I hope you don't spend too much of your time playing with Synthmaker Frits! 😉

Mart

Zynewave · 28 Feb 2005

kingtubby wrote: Zynewave wrote: Hi all,

Just paid my 45 Euros to become an early adopter. I have not had much time to work with the actual synth construction in SM, but I'm paying just on the basis of the excellent GUI, and the speed at which this application is evolving. Nicely done!

Frits

I hope you don't spend too much of your time playing with Synthmaker Frits! 😉

Mart

😀 Don't worry. I'm hoping I can use SynthMaker to create simple plugins that I can bundle with Podium example projects 🙂

sonicfire · 4 Mar 2005

i also paid the 45 EUR. 🙂

cant believe how fast SM grows now - it´s already a fantastic piece of software and still blows me away! fantastic work!!

malc · 4 Mar 2005

Thanks sonicfire, great to hear that.

I noticed on KvR that you had some MIDI problems, but it appears you managed to get it working before I got a chance to reply.

If you have any other problems please do let us know.

Shifrin · 6 Mar 2005

Just 'early adopted' thanks for the special price guys will no doubt have questions when I start getting stuck into SynthMaker 😉

Shif.

malc · 6 Mar 2005

Thanks Shifrin,

Look forward to your questions 🙂

acousmod · 7 Mar 2005

Hi, I'm happy to join the pool... I hope that the audio input module and the VST export will be available soon !

Cheers, Jean-Marc Duchenne

malc · 7 Mar 2005

Thanks acousmod,

Should have those very soon.

laserbeak43 · 8 Mar 2005

i must admit that i've kinda skimmed through this topic but i wanted to know..

when is the deadline? i'm goin through a transition jobwise and am kinda short on dollars...

malc · 8 Mar 2005

Hi laserbeak43,

There isn't a fixed deadline. You'll have at least until the end of this month though.

ik_ik_ik · 12 Mar 2005

W00t! I've joined the early adopters club too 🙂 Looking forward to see how things shape up!

Cheers,

Inigo

www.inigokennedy.com www.asymmetric.co.uk

jorge · 12 Mar 2005

ik_ik_ik wrote: W00t! I've joined the early adopters club too 🙂 Looking forward to see how things shape up!

🙂 Thanks for your faith in SM. We'll do our best to exceed your expectation.

Tom7777 · 16 Mar 2005

Im going to buy it too its a great app.

ambitechniques · 17 Mar 2005

I have just paid for the early adoptor. I'm looking forward to downloading version 1.

THANKS. 😀

db · 19 Mar 2005

And my turn to sign up! 🙂

Feels good to support Synthmaker and save at the same time. Malc's help with my newbie problems etc only confirmed that this is the place! Not to mention the friendly forms forums.

Oh ya-SM ain't 1/2 bad either! 😉

Life is good! 😀

malc · 19 Mar 2005

Thanks people 😀

Acolmiztli · 21 Mar 2005

I'll be buying mine on April 4th! 😀

Tom7777 · 21 Mar 2005

Hi, I don't currently have a Paypal membership is there no other way to pay like postal order/cheque/cash ect?

stefan · 21 Mar 2005

It's very easy to have a paypal account these days. You don't have to keep any money in a "paypal account" or anything, you can just connect it to your credit card. Works like a charm imo 🙂

Acolmiztli · 21 Mar 2005

What if you don't have a credit card only a debit card that Paypal doesn't support?

In my opinion the dev team should look at ShareIt! as an alternative.

malc · 21 Mar 2005

I appreciate that not everyone can use PayPal. We're looking into alternatives.

The problem with ShareIt is their charges are much higher than PayPal.

Shifrin · 21 Mar 2005

Acolmiztli wrote: What if you don't have a credit card only a debit card that Paypal doesn't support?

Well, PayPal supports Solo & Switch (or Maestro as it's now known). I use my Switch card no problems 🙂 Not sure if they support Visa Electron though.

Shif.

Acolmiztli · 21 Mar 2005

Ah, see I have a visa electron - its no biggy, I'll just either have to arrange with Malc a wire transfer, or get my mummy dearest to buy it for me 😀

sluggo · 21 Mar 2005

one more early adopter... 😉

Tom7777 · 22 Mar 2005

I know someone with a Paypal account so i will give them cash and they can buy it for me. So soon i will have paid, Was just wondering about how long do you think the time gap between V1 when it's released and V2 will be. Thanks

Tom7777 · 23 Mar 2005

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jorge · 23 Mar 2005

Tom7777 wrote: I just paid using my dads paypal account 🙂 I was wondering how you know when you have recieved the payment will you send a registration code via email or something?

You'll receive an email. We did receive a payment in the last minutes which I'm assuming is from you. Thanks a lot for your support.

Tom7777 · 23 Mar 2005

Yeah that should be me then 🙂 Thanks

toddd_r · 24 Mar 2005

Hello, I'm going to early adopt, but am rather too much in the red to do it at the minute, could you tell me roughly when the offer will finish, I don't want to miss it. Also, we will receive a physical copy with V.1.0? Any physical documentation?

Oh, btw, synthmaker is amazing, just what I've wanted for a long time

malc · 24 Mar 2005

Hi toddd_r,

Welcome to the forum.

The early adopter programme is more of a gesture of thanks to those supporting us early on than your standard “hurry, buy now, must end Friday” kind of offer. We don’t yet have a fixed release date for SynthMaker and as such no fixed date for when the early adopter programme will close. For putting up with the uncertainty we wanted to give early adopters a generous discount.

We’ve still got a lot to do so you’ve got plenty of time. I wouldn’t want you to over-stretch yourself.

Many thanks.

malc · 25 Mar 2005

Sorry toddd_r, I completely forgot to answer your question about documentation.

I'm afraid we have no plans to produce printed documentation. It's not really an affordable option for us. In addition, aside from the software operation, the continual evolution of the toolbox would make it difficult to keep printed documentation up to date.

Electronic documentation is a much better solution for providing an evolving information set, especially if this contains downloadable files and examples.

I do appreciate that not everyone has constant access to the internet and that reading printed material can be easier on the eye when reading and is more practical for some people. To cater for this need we're looking into ways of allowing the online documentation to be easily transformed into a downloadable form that you can take offline or print out as and when required.

Thanks again for your interest

toddd_r · 25 Mar 2005

Thanks for your replies malc, yeah it does make more sense having electronic documentation now I think about it, as you say, I can always print it out. I will early adopt very soon, as I think this is a brilliant program and I do want to support your efforts, and I really want to see it keep on growing. Actually, I won some money playing poker last night, so you might find some of it on it's way to you!

bureiku · 25 Mar 2005

malc wrote: Sorry toddd_r, I completely forgot to answer your question about documentation.

I'm afraid we have no plans to produce printed documentation. It's not really an affordable option for us. In addition, aside from the software operation, the continual evolution of the toolbox would make it difficult to keep printed documentation up to date.

Electronic documentation is a much better solution for providing an evolving information set, especially if this contains downloadable files and examples.

I do appreciate that not everyone has constant access to the internet and that reading printed material can be easier on the eye when reading and is more practical for some people. To cater for this need we're looking into ways of allowing the online documentation to be easily transformed into a downloadable form that you can take offline or print out as and when required.

Thanks again for your interest

Malc- You should check out cafepress.com. They do self-publishing now. All you have to do is upload a formatted PDF, and they do the rest. They print on a per-order basis, you charge whatever you want, and they take out a per-page fee.

JMC at FL Studio is going this route, I know because for a short time I was working on the book. It's definitely worth checking in to, as long as you find a way to actually get the documentation authored.

-Blake

Tom7777 · 25 Mar 2005

I'm afraid we have no plans to produce printed documentation. It's not really an affordable option for us.

I think that a formatted PDF file or html documents are fine and are easy to print if required. The best way though to have help and tutorials would be to have the help document within the actual program. 🙂

malc · 25 Mar 2005

Thanks Blake, I'll check it out.

Acolmiztli · 5 Apr 2005

I just paid. PayPal accepts VISA Electron, so I had no problem using my own card. Can't wait to get stuck in!

malc · 5 Apr 2005

Thanks very much Acolmiztli, great to have you with us 🙂

ik · 9 Apr 2005

😀 I just paid into the early adopter's program ... 😀 ik.

mosca · 10 Apr 2005

damn this unemployed satus - im scraping it together guys

adopting next week hopefully

mosca

Sk · 11 Apr 2005

I am thinking about registering, but at the moment I'm short of money. There will be no way to have a reduction when version 1.0 comes out, right? 🙁

malc · 11 Apr 2005

Hi Sk,

Thanks for your interest, I can sympathise with your position believe me.

There's still some time to early adopt. Once version 1.0 is released it will still be a very good price. The point of the reduction is to say thanks for helping us get to version 1.0. I'm sure you'll agree that this is pretty fair.

Would be great to have you with us at some point though 🙂

Malc.

malc · 11 Apr 2005

mosca wrote: damn this unemployed satus - im scraping it together guys

Thanks mosca 🙂

X33 · 13 Apr 2005

I just bought into the future 😀

X33

malc · 13 Apr 2005

Welcome to SynthMaker X33

Many thanks indeed 🙂

bones · 18 Apr 2005

People around here have some seriously truncated nicknames.

malc · 18 Apr 2005

bones wrote: People around here have some seriously truncated nicknames.

Short and sweet 🙂

Hi bones, welcome to the SynthMaker forum!

platinumears · 21 Apr 2005

I tried to try SM a while ago, but was told my computer was too crap. 😠

I've got some of those magic SSE thingies now, so count me in! 😀

Now i just need to find some free time..

malc · 21 Apr 2005

Thanks platinumears and welcome!

ezeeboogie · 22 Apr 2005

Some of you guys will probably know my nick from KVR. I've been an early adopter since, ooh way back in February I think, but I've only just started reading these forums. I feel like I'm standing up for the first time at an AA meeting here...

I tell you what though, screw all this constantly updating the damn program with new features and great tools, get some more emoticons for the forum and then you'll get people on here! 😉

Very cool program, I'm looking forward to what you guys have planned! 🙂

Shifrin · 22 Apr 2005

Knew I'd seen that nick before 😉

Shif.

malc · 23 Apr 2005

Hi ezeeboogie,

I can't believe we've neglected the emoticons issue for so long. I feel ashamed and embarrassed at such an oversight 😉