by galaxiesmerge » Sat May 12, 2012 6:48 am
I think it is a great idea to get a SOLARIS over to others too, like Jordan Rudess - famous people will drive open market awareness, sales and, for us who are waiting, sales means future features are more likely to be delivered. However, I think once you get to about 3 to 6 units out there, and once there are a few good usable quotes, that it would be good to have a page on Bowen's site about all that. Also, live demos, with people actually playing the unit, will replace the doldrums of the tutorial videos --- what makes keys sell also is seeing them played by virtuoso players. I am very keen on getting my SOLARIS too and I am in line, committed and supportive, but I also want the unit to have *sales* *sales* *sales* since that guarantees longevity, support, fixes, features and so many other things --- there are folks on this forum that have all kinds of really cool feature requests, and, I will venture to bet that there are folks, perhaps even on this forum, that could implement those features for the SOLARIS (like a kind of open-platform thing) --- how cool is that? Symbolic Sound does this with their user community and it works as a business model really well because I can download many, many different kinds of sound models from the Kyma user wiki site (which is closed to the public). A keyboard where the manufacturer actually *listens* to the customers, and creates for the customers, and satisfies the customers is unbeatable, and that is one of the reasons (among many more) that I am awaiting my SOLARIS.
Cheers!
I think it is a great idea to get a SOLARIS over to others too, like Jordan Rudess - famous people will drive open market awareness, sales and, for us who are waiting, sales means future features are more likely to be delivered. However, I think once you get to about 3 to 6 units out there, and once there are a few good usable quotes, that it would be good to have a page on Bowen's site about all that. Also, live demos, with people actually playing the unit, will replace the doldrums of the tutorial videos --- what makes keys sell also is seeing them played by virtuoso players. I am very keen on getting my SOLARIS too and I am in line, committed and supportive, but I also want the unit to have *sales* *sales* *sales* since that guarantees longevity, support, fixes, features and so many other things --- there are folks on this forum that have all kinds of really cool feature requests, and, I will venture to bet that there are folks, perhaps even on this forum, that could implement those features for the SOLARIS (like a kind of open-platform thing) --- how cool is that? Symbolic Sound does this with their user community and it works as a business model really well because I can download many, many different kinds of sound models from the Kyma user wiki site (which is closed to the public). A keyboard where the manufacturer actually *listens* to the customers, and creates for the customers, and satisfies the customers is unbeatable, and that is one of the reasons (among many more) that I am awaiting my SOLARIS.
Cheers!