No offense at all, but still I think that we often tend to make a "war" or "fight" out of something I would rather call "evolution".audiojunkie wrote: Fri Aug 22, 2025 5:35 pm No offence to you (or anyone) was intended. I hope none was taken. I just found the situation surreally ironic.
I guess everybody who works in this area had experiences where a beloved software takes a turn that isn't ones own. Corporate takeovers may make a once beloved tool into a big question mark or untenable, changes in licensing, changes in personell or simply changes in direction may make one move away from something.
In my 35+ years of professional computer use, I've gone through an extreme number of such changes.
In some cases it was easy to let go, in some it was devastating and livelyhood-threatening.
But what I learned in all that is on one hand to not get invested too much in things, on the other that companies that manage to balance their own vision against the customers demands in a clear way do better in the long run.
The customer is not always right, some ideas need to be done no matter what people think at first to fit a bigger picture.
And a certain consistency in approach makes a brand, while following every whim makes a mess.
I'm rather sensitive in the browser department, others have other priorities and Bulent has to balance all that with his own vision and long term strategy to hopefully get Synthmaster the recognition it deserves.
So me saying that I do not like the latest change to the preset browser is not "truth", but I wanted to express it to balance out the views of others who are in favour of it.
The new browser in SM 3.4 isn't as devastating for me as the one in Bitwig 5, but I also do not perceive it as a real improvement, more a variation and one that may "improve" one area for some but "deproves" another for others.
Zero Sum shuffling IMO as I said.
And a lot of work for questionable gain.
Back down from my soapbox and wishing you all a nice evening!
Cheers,
Tom
