Hey - I paid $3999.99 plus sales tax for my black face ADAT when it first came out. There were never any updates for that! It did what it did and that was that - until the heads got funky - then it didn't do anything! But, at the time I was very thankful to have it. Today I'm producing records using Vegas - I've been with it since V1. With all the upgrades purchased ( 2 - 6) I still spent under $1000.00 for the software. With every upgrade it's gotten better and better.
Poor little Sonic Foundry got bought up by big old Sony, just like little indie lables get bought up by the majors, little radio stations get bought up by the conglamorates, hey, even my favorite mom and pop pizza parlor in the French Quarter in New Orleans got bought up by Pizza Hut! That's just the way the world goes. I'm glad Vegas / Acid / SF etc didn't go totally under like some other software companies, Aardvark, etc. They are keepin' it going and improving on it, even if not at the rate some users expect. I'm sure Sony bought it as a good business move for themselves, or maybe just to keep a competitor from purchasing the company. Y'all can either switch to other software, or just use Vegas for the things it does best.
My point is - this constant forum whine-a-thon is gettin' kinda old. If y'all want to complain about things, there's a lot of more important issues in the world than worrying about the the metronome in Vegas.
Many of you are using Vegas because you don't have th 10 -15K it would cost to enter the Pro Tools world. Instead of spending your time complaining about Sony, you could just use that time and energy making music, being creative, and hopefully that will breed sucess, the byproduct of which is financial gain.. Then you can switch to some other platform to record music on. And after you make the switch, things still won't be perfect! The Beatles had a good quality 4 track and made Sgt. Pepper. I don't think George Martin and the Lads wasted a lot of time in the studio complaining that it wasn't a 24 track! We've all gotten our money's worth out of Vegas. If you don't think so, check out what the first Sony digital 24 track tape machine (which cost well over $100,000).is selling for on Ebay today! (It didn't even sound that good!)
Poor little Sonic Foundry got bought up by big old Sony, just like little indie lables get bought up by the majors, little radio stations get bought up by the conglamorates, hey, even my favorite mom and pop pizza parlor in the French Quarter in New Orleans got bought up by Pizza Hut! That's just the way the world goes. I'm glad Vegas / Acid / SF etc didn't go totally under like some other software companies, Aardvark, etc. They are keepin' it going and improving on it, even if not at the rate some users expect. I'm sure Sony bought it as a good business move for themselves, or maybe just to keep a competitor from purchasing the company. Y'all can either switch to other software, or just use Vegas for the things it does best.
My point is - this constant forum whine-a-thon is gettin' kinda old. If y'all want to complain about things, there's a lot of more important issues in the world than worrying about the the metronome in Vegas.
Many of you are using Vegas because you don't have th 10 -15K it would cost to enter the Pro Tools world. Instead of spending your time complaining about Sony, you could just use that time and energy making music, being creative, and hopefully that will breed sucess, the byproduct of which is financial gain.. Then you can switch to some other platform to record music on. And after you make the switch, things still won't be perfect! The Beatles had a good quality 4 track and made Sgt. Pepper. I don't think George Martin and the Lads wasted a lot of time in the studio complaining that it wasn't a 24 track! We've all gotten our money's worth out of Vegas. If you don't think so, check out what the first Sony digital 24 track tape machine (which cost well over $100,000).is selling for on Ebay today! (It didn't even sound that good!)