I suspect that Taktik has had a problem with Renoise’s GUI, and along with “monetary problems” (…)
But that is speculation of mine.
Quite a bit of wild speculation indeed, and certainly not the first post of its kind by you.
Please allow me to make a friendly suggestion here: Try to avoid reading too much between the lines of every little thing that’s said, or picking apart random comments and coming up with your own theories about this, that, or the other. It’s simply not very productive or helpful.
For example: One guy makes a random comment in this thread about the “market for trackers” not being very strong, and then a few posts later you’re suddenly speculating that taktik and/or the Renoise project is suffering from financial problems. I don’t know if your speculation was based purely on his remarks or something else that’s been brewing in your mind, but it’s really quite silly either way to be perfectly honest.
Such idle chit chat is usually completely unfounded and serves no real purpose, tending only to confuse people even further or spark off bizarre rumours, until the forum eventually turns into some kind of echo chamber filled with utter nonsense. So let’s simply try to avoid that, ok?
In addition, it’s also a bit rude to make random presumptions about Taktik’s (or any team member’s) personal life, feelings, intentions, motivations, and so on. Unless we’re personally sharing such thoughts with you directly in the form of an open discussion, it really shouldn’t be any of your concern, so again let’s simply try to avoid such unfounded tangents.
Instead, focus on the things you do know for sure, which we’ve already told you directly: The team (of which Taktik is the lead developer) is working on another project for a while, so Renoise’s core feature development is on hold until further notice.
In short, the team simply had a desire to work on something else for a while, to explore some interesting new challenges, and to clear the dust and cobwebs from some lesser used parts of the brain. When a project has been ongoing for 15 years as Renoise has, it’s only natural that an occasional change of scenery or pace may be necessary to keep things fresh and interesting.
Nevertheless, Taktik is not locked away in some distant fortress of solitude, nor are the walls crumbling down around us at Renoise HQ. Taktik, Danoise, and another colleague of ours, are all working together on the other project and meeting up at Renoise HQ throughout the week, so it’s pretty much business as usual.
I am not directly involved with the new project myself, since I have my own things going on, but I do still drop into the office at least once per week to hang out, share ideas, or to simply talk some shit and have a laugh with my pals.
In closing, things here are fine, so let’s all just try to relax and calm down a bit, ok?
Cheers.
Bonus PS: The 3.1.1 bugfix was silently released on Backstage earlier this month, we just didn’t get around to posting an official announcement yet. If one of the pending fixes was pissing you off, it should hopefully be fixed now.
with new customers and things like that just like doing a new song when you have heard one of your songs until your ears hurt 
