The thing for me is having designers who understand.steevio wrote:
this is a critical factor, there is an unbelievable wave of new designs almost every week, its outstripping the rate of new software designs, and more importantly us modularheads are actually helping design the very things we want. we are in constant dialog with the designers who are small independant cottage industries doing it for the love.
They are passionate music listeners, they understand the needs and ideas of music making. They are on that same far out, are my ideas good or sh!t? level that a musician has to go thru. They will spend months tweaking something till it's just right, and spend a lifetime obssessively learning about their craft.
These guys are not trying to understand a market, they are the same as us. This is unique. I have not experienced this before. In many ways people don't hear about it becuase the manufacturers are too modest, and believe in themselves enough to be happy keeping on, that you're never gonna hear an advert for what you can do with their product, and how great it is.
