I like the plugins of Sknote a lot and I own a couple of them. Also the customer support is first class. But one thing bother me a bit: too many announcements.
Often it's so that Sknote announce a plugin or a upgrade and nothing happens for weeks. E.G. SKnote "DDD" should be released before three weeks that was a announcment by Quinot. We also waiting for the user area. These are just examples. Since Sknote exist that their behaviour.

I can understand that Quinto/Sknote have a lot things to do. I think they should announce a release when the things are mostly done.

I'm the only one who bother this fact?

@Quinto: Don't get me wrong. I love your company.
BTW: When will the Roundtone update come?

You've said it yourself:
it is not the number of announcements but the time between announcement and being ready for release.

So far SKnote have not produced hot air but delivered eventually
and that instilled confidence in me.

Quinto drops hints about forthcoming products in his posts from time to time.
Wouldn't people talk about them whether there was an official (announcement) thread or not?

There's only one point I see that has an effect on me:
I have not looked further into Dimension emulations since he announced DDD.
So his announcements are definitely competitive in consequence.
But that's my own choice and my own patience to deal with.

Greetings
D.

I hear you

If we were a big company with a marketing plan we'd announce products when ready and available or according to some marketing teasing plans.

But we are a small company (8, 4 working), so we (most of all I) need to have a bit of fun while developing these VERY hard to do toys. A way to do it is making them public. And I get a lot of help through forums, too!

More, I think that a transparent view on what's going on here is a nice point of view. You can know what to expect. You also can come to the office if you happen to come to Sicily and see it all!

Often timelines are stretched by a huge amount. This is because the product doesn't work as it should and I'll never release something like an emulation if I don't hear the "click".

Something you surely cannot see: there are a lot more projects running here, but they are not announced and I never talk about them. Because they are still too near to vaporware.

If you hear me speaking about something, instead, it exists

There are about seven projects running here, and I never made reference to them


Oh, DDD is ready!


P.S. Oh, if you come to the Musikmesse you'll see I can keep secrets! Ah ah!

P.P.S User area: grrrr... the only thing we're not doing ourselves

No-it's OK, Announce away. Great dev,great tools,the excitement just builds.....

Thanks Quinto. Thats a new point of view making things clear for me and a lot of sense. Thanks.

I support Quinto's approach ... I believe he does a lot for us and with us. He shares thoughts and ideas, solidifies or challenges his own conceptions and I think ultimately that is very healthy. As always I usually want things quicker but that's 'cos I get excited!

PS Waiting for my next album? Now that is waiting!!

Quinto is top notch developer with amazing plugins.

This is absolutely worst rant i ever saw...

No problem what so ever.
Quinto is good!

Typo there, you have one too many O's up there

Quinto, I love your plugins. It's seriously unreal getting that depth and detail with StripBus, I always assumed when I heard that hi-fidelity and 3D sound it was a result of the nice, vintage stereo I was listening too. I was APPALLED when I flipped on Strip for the first time on my HEADPHONES and got that depth, space, smearing and glue. Unreal.

And the roundness Roundtone adds just like being wrapped in a delicious warm blanket... Keep up the great work.

My only complaint is that the interfaces for both of them look like windows 95 dialog boxes, haha but I know that's being overhauled

Give me me some time and you'll see the new interfaces...
Oops... an announcement!

Why don't they put DEMOS on their site?
I mean a possible buyer wants to test first, especially as nowadays there are some many different & new Operation Systems!! I'd never buy an untested software.

Because demo versions require time, efforts and management. Not enough time.
I'd really like to make them available one day.
RTAS is more urgent, though!

Trust in Quinto

Nope, Quinto can tease us anytime he wants. Just look at the amount of plugins he already brought, and the little updates he already made.

Could be seen as annoying but honestly comes across from Quinto that he is just excited as anybody else about something new he is working on, and just wants to tell us all, if it where other companies it could be seen as vaporware, but in this case you actually know for 100% certainty if he says it is coming soon, it is coming eventually