EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Yeah, I definitely agree. After checking out the docs and demo stuff, my 
reaction was basically "this looks really cool, but I bet it's a 
complete nightmare to use." Much as I enjoy H.R. Giger's art, it's not 
such a good starting place for a user-interface. The rest of Antares' 
stuff looks so clean and professional compared to this that all I can 
figure is they're betting on some market niche that wants "wild" looking 
stuff. Here's what I got back from Antares;

 >MSRP for the MAC Native version (RTAS, MAS, VST) will be $299. The 
product
 >release date is Scheduled for mid-June '02.


On Thursday, May 23, 2002, at 03:04 AM, Hendrik Jan Veenstra wrote:

> Thoughts from the mind of M Stevens, 23-05-2002:
>
>> I was going to get EVOC20 too, but then I happend by antares.com to
>> deal w/ my ancient Infinity registration, and saw this;
>>
>> <http://www.antarestech.com/products/kantos.html>http://www.antarestech.
>> com/products/kantos.html
>>
>> Looks pretty bitchin'...
>
> If it indeed works, it's quite interesting indeed (haven't tried the
> sound samples yet), although I don't see how it would replace a
> vocoder.  Very different animals, from the looks of it.
>
> Talking about looks: this kantos-thing _does_ have an absolutely
> horrid graphical interface.  First price in the "I don't want
> software to look like this"-contest...  That alone would be a reason
> not to buy it...  I often wonder what's wrong with s/w developers.
> There seems to be a kind of race to get the most sci-fi looking
> interface on the planet, usually sacrificing visual clarity and
> user-friendliness in the process...
>
> --
> Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
> Omega Art: http://www.ision.nl/users/h/index.html
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