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Last written update on https://www.audiotool.com/board/newbie/release_log was 10 months ago. And i haven't seen any bug reports being closed in so long. WTF happened?

i just want to see the bullshit some people spew here

i pooped and farded

I read the entire thin, you have a beautiful way of words Keychain, and I think you are 95% right, im too tired to talk about the remaining 5% rn,, but ill gack to you someday

" just doing on search on the word "cymatics" in the sample browser" so true XD

The more you know

i read the whole thing, all very valid points, devs should consider everything.

and i have been asking for a midi sampler for the longest time, its really annoying escpeccially working with 808s.

THIS AINT SHIT NEW!

Common criticisms (I did not make these up, these are not straw men but things I have actually heard said about my document, mostly from the AT discord)

1. “YOU WROTE 6 PAGES COMPLAINING, L + RATIO,yada yada”, this whole thing only took me like 45 mins to write, that’s part of the reason a lot of it so terrible, and reads like a vizil rant for half of it.
2. “There was no mass banning/purge by mods”, this is an anecdote, but I literally remember having a conversation with a mod on the AT discord, around a few months after it happened talking about how this was whole purge was such a blunder, and how they wouldn’t have done it if they were part of the mod team at the time. But Ik an anecdote prob won’t convince a lot of ppl, it wouldn’t convince me. So I would also like to say if you go into Audiotool discord history, there are definitely comments of ppl other than me, who are not my friends/ I don’t talk to them, they also mention there being a purge of users that happened around the time. I couldn’t find anyone that said exactly what it was about/ what caused it, but that is where I was relying on my memory. I fully understand if you think this causes reasonable doubt. All I can tell you is that I was in fact banned that day when they announced they were going to get rid of all copyright samples for complaining about it. Maybe the purge was only about the sample themselves, but all I can say is that I do remember a lot of trap kid users were remove
3. “This sounds like a vizil rant”, fair, while I will say this was never going to not sound like I one, I wrote a 6 page rant over my frustrations with an online daw and it’s community. I still stand by everything that I said, but I do believe I should have worded it better and been less emotional.
4. “This keychain guy complains about everything”, I mean true, but also if you want to prove my rant is invalid/unwarranted you have to actually argue about what is in the actual rant, not about who is writing it (common theme of a lot of these counter arguments)

the real joke is that criticism is a needed thing regardless of how it's presented, and no one seems to encourage it enough
audiotool in terms of being a DAW is below standards in some aspects despite having it's own benefits
it deserves more at a fundamental level really, but i guess complacency speaks loudly
let another year pass, with not even a development roadmap, to give us reassurance

Mix is a step in the right direction, but I still am frustrated because it seems to be another another example of the AT vision seeming to always be looking outward adding things outside the studio rather than inward, because the studio really needs work and is broken some aspects, and it legit just feels as though it has been neglected for years only getting minor improvements. The annoying part is that when you say the studio needs work, people always seem to assume that you want them to put xfer serum in AT, and they go on and on about how your expectations are unrealistically high. All I want is for us to have some basic features, like live projects actually not being cancer, having a normal pitcher that is independent of tempo, and other things

recommendation for audiotol mods, look at other daws and think of "how do i make at better" not "how can i be bigger/ more popular' or "how can i mimic what they have"

fredrik knudson should do a down the rabbit hole video about audiotool at this point

Hey everyone I understand the frustration about Audiotool's quiet period. And honestly it's deeply appreciated to know you care so much to take time to give all this feadback and I know you mean well. For a couple of reasons I'm going to keep this thread up, but will close the conversation. I'm also deleting the Moderator response, and will briefly summarise it here instead.

While always appreciated, for a small team, criticism delivered in aggressive or harassing way (which is in fact against community guidelines) can become demotivating and unproductive. Instead, objective feedback in the right places of the board or via email to support is much more appreciated and effective. Our community manager passes on bug reports to the team, and feature requests are collated into a document that is reviewed by the team as well.

Also I hope this year saw improvements in communication with community, which will continue to get better.