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written by: BobThDog

Hi John,

Ok, thanks for the info.

All the best

Andy

written by: mzappile

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 04:12:18 +0000 GMT

Hey Eigenlabs guys,

Sorry if someone asked this already.
WIll the upcoming workbench be free to all owners of an Eigenharp?

Also, any idea what the pricing of any subsequent native instrument will be?

I know, I know, too early to tell, but still curious.

Thanks!
-Matt Z


written by: john

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:28:20 +0000 GMT

Hi Matt

We are not planning to charge for the Workbench, and in fact you will find elements of it's functionality creeping into the system slowly over the next couple of months (starting with the Belcanto scripting support in the exisiting browser). It is now likely (we been doing a lot of brainstorming here in the last couple of weeks, largely driven by all your feedback here) that what was originally intended as one monster application will in fact become several smaller ones that can be turned on and off from EigenD, as the need for some of the functionality is likely to be sporadic and they will use up system resources. This particularly applies to the graphical plumber now in development, as it will be a fairly heavyweight application that many will not use that often. And experienced Belcanto users can do pretty much everything it will do without launching it, albeit at the price of having to maintain a complex mental model of the system - easy after a year or so, much harder for beginners.

As of now we have no idea about the pricing of new native instruments, we will let you know as soon as we do. There will be several more that will probably make it into the existing EigenD releases at no cost.

John


written by: mzappile

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:25:25 +0000 GMT

Good stuff, thanks!

-Matt Z


written by: BobThDog

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:49:14 +0000 GMT

Hi John,

Is there any documentation for Belcanto?

Thanks

Andy


written by: john

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:37:03 +0000 GMT

Hi Andy

Not as yet. We have a load of PDF's we use internally but they're not yet suitable for external use - they're mildly inconsistent having been written over a year of development progress and need a little attention. We will be producing a first pass of these before the first component of the Workbench appears, which is a Belcanto commander - dictioanary/staff view/command window in one.

John


written by: BobThDog

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:31:35 +0000 GMT

Hi John,

Ok, thanks for the info.

All the best

Andy



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