The response and all the massive reports we got so far are just fabulous. Thanks from the whole team to all that help us making this release rock stable!
We will do our best to solve all problems. One after each others. But we will need you help to make sure that the bugs are fixed in every new alpha/beta build that we will upload.
You will be notified that there is a new build available by sticky threads which we will add as soon as there is something new to download.
Some might also ask themselfs why there are soo many bugs and problems in this release:
This is an early alpha release. We did not spend much time with internal testing this time, because we got into hurry at the end, to avoid that we will again delay first official release. Further its maybe a little bit disapointing for you to find those obvious things, but will help us to concentrate fixing all the bugs, instead of finding them.
Our time for this project is limited, so the more you can help us, the more stable this release will be at the end and the more time we can spend on fixing stuff.
Much has changed under the hood. Its not only that Renoise looks different, a lot has changed internally to make for example the OSX port possible, or to fix code design errors that we have made in the past (and we did a lot of them!). Furhter we did a lot of preparation for other features that are currently not implemented, but can then later (thanks to the preparation) easily being added.
A bug has multiple faces: Bugs can have lots of other sideeffects, which again can cause or show as bugs, so the amount of fixes that we do is less than the number of bugreports that we do get.
So dont give up. All the horrible obvious crashes and errors will be hopefully fixed within the next few updates (which will be release very soon). As soon as the rough testing and fixing is done, we will then have an official beta that maybe even can be used to compose freaky tunes
No No No… the user base has to thank the development team for developing such a fine piece of software even when it is not rock solid.
In choir please: THANKS!!!
Admit it, many companies and developers are spreading mostly their alphas to a selected user base.
I like that trend here more being able to find bugs too.
That was definatly the wisest choice you´ve done for that release
I am totally grateful and respectful of the singular opportunity to take part in the development and testing of a program that is my artistic weapon of choice.
renoise devs: j00 r0c|<!
and by the way:
i’m making freaky tunes with the alpha regardless of the bugs. (how else are you going to find them?)
Well, if at least ten ppl would do the same, then everyone will pizza and beer… together!
Besides, i’ll probably donate a little more than 10 bucks (secretly)
It’s just for the for the fun and something probably even the most poor among us can do.
