[sdiy] Interesting Midi Box for Parts etc...

[Doug Terrebonne]

This was discussed on AH a while back.. Here's a post from Mike Peake about the
nightmare that was the Nanotracker:

From: Peake peake at pacificnet.net,
cc: 
Subject: Re: [AH] sequencing [alesis where are you?]
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 98 14:47:28 -0000


>> the latest sweetwater sound catalouge has listed what i believe is the
>> "new alesis sequencer" you are talking about. it's called the "nano
>> tracker". it does have a floppy drive, it does not have 8 buttons (and
>> lights) to turn tracks on and off.
>> 
>> deknow

I happened to be at work today and saw this, so from the horse's mouth:
Nanotracker no more. BTW, it was a PCM CIA card slot, not a floppy 
drive. I ran the Beta test team for the NT, and due to incapable 
outside programmers, it was killed. They really screwed up in their 
attempts at programming. I'd love to share details but that wouldn't 
be corporately correct. 

>nah, that's not it. rumors of an mmt-32 were abounding last year, but
>alesis reportedly scrapped the project

We had spec'd out something larger than an MMT32, but marketing 
decided that it had to have several options tacked on to make it 
desirable, and as a result, it became too expensive and was killed. 
They wanted it to control ADATs, etc. in addition to sequencing. 
We tried to slim it down and presented it again, but all the problems 
we were having with the NanoTracker soured them too deeply to 
okay it's development (and we don't have the spare time to do 
it alone). 

>Hi all,
>regarding the nanotracker (that is what it was going to be) I'm on the
>Alesis list because I have a QS7, and straight from the horseses' mouths
>the nanotracker is no more. It had MAJOR software bugs because they
>brought in outside ppl to program it. Everyone at Alesis was really
>bummed about the failure. BTW the Alesis crew is super, never to busy to
>answer stupid little questions the list throws at them.
>that's all,
>dalas

Thanks. The above about the NT is exact. And the going joke was that 
in the time it was taking them to work on the NT, any one of us could 
have learned code and done it ourselves. 

Easier,

Mike
Alesis Synthesizer Group

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