wavelength devices europa

wavelength · Post by **wavelength** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 12:00 am

<a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.track0.com/wavelength/eurov11demo.zip"><img src="/forums/images/file_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" File"> File</a> <a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.track0.com/wavelength/europa ... .htm"><img src="/forums/images/notes_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" Notes"> Notes</a> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Price ($USD): 99 <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Type: Synth _____________________________________ the wavelength europa synthesizer (for CreamWare’s SFP and XTC platforms) is now available for purchase
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Format.bat · Post by **Format.bat** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 4:53 am

I am going to wait that you put it in free donation.
I had bought your synthé and you put them free 3 months later.
GRrrrrrrrrr!!!!

wavelength · Post by **wavelength** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 6:30 am

On 2003-03-22 04:53, Format.bat wrote:
I am going to wait that you put it in free donation.
I had bought your synthé and you put them free 3 months later.
GRrrrrrrrrr!!!!

well... my old devices aren't really free. they are freely available, but should be paid-for if used on a regular basis.

i will not be releasing any of my new SFP/XTC devices as strictly shareware... ever.

when i decided to release the older devices as shareware, I was in a difficult place, you must understand. sales had slowed right down and SCOPE DP/ Pulsar (now SFP) had just been completely changed. i decided that while i would relearn SCOPE (and all of its new goodies) i might as well benefit from some of the promotion that might be gained by getting my older units to a much wider user-base (and hopefully stimulate a little income). it seemed to me a better option than just having my devices sit here with me. i knew that some (the couple) relatively recent purchasers would be annoyed, but it had also occured to me that no user had bought all of my devices (or more than four, for that matter... and some devices were even completed as shareware only, so nobody had them yet) and so even people that had purchased units were gaining new devices in the process... and i get not so much as a thank you. btw, it depresses me how many people have dowloaded my stuff (I can tell, of course) and how little have offered me anything for them. forgive my complaining here.

it is only because of people like you (relatively few) that have actually purchased my devices at full price, that I am still able to spend time designing new products. you have invested in my company and for that I thank you. please don't punish me for trying to expand people's awareness of my stuff. this is a very hard business to keep afloat in.

hey, the music if free now... why not the instruments that make the music, right? (sarcasm)

[ This Message was edited by: wavelength on 2003-03-22 06:52 ]

petal · Post by **petal** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 7:58 am

Thank you very much!

Cheers!
Thomas

wavelength · Post by **wavelength** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 8:28 pm

On 2003-03-23 07:58, Petal wrote:
Thank you very much!

Cheers!
Thomas

hey! thanks to you...

eliam · Post by **eliam** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 10:26 pm

Thanks, wavelength! Although I don't use your devices much with my Luna, your contribution is appreciated! Keep up the good work!

wavelength · Post by **wavelength** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 10:45 pm

On 2003-03-27 22:26, eliam wrote:
Thanks, wavelength! Although I don't use your devices much with my Luna, your contribution is appreciated! Keep up the good work!

your appreciation is appreciated! it is nice to get feedback now and again, this development-thing can be a fairly lonely one at times

eliam · Post by **eliam** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 1:27 pm

I can perfectly understand that, for I am a musician that works alone too and to get some encouragements once in a while does not hurt, that's certain!

wavelength · Post by **wavelength** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:42 pm

On 2003-03-28 13:27, eliam wrote:
I can perfectly understand that, for I am a musician that works alone too and to get some encouragements once in a while does not hurt, that's certain!

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 6:45 pm

On 2003-03-22 06:30, wavelength wrote:
... i knew that some (the couple) relatively recent purchasers would be annoyed,...

looks like I'm the other one

I wasn't annoyed at all, but on one hand happy the rest was so cheap now, on the other hand concerned, because the price didn't match the quality anymore.

I just received the announced update of the Europa - tnx a lot Stephen and keep on developing such nice devices.
Synths with a special character where tweaking is fun

One question left: is the name of the synth a reference to the Jupiter moon in Kubrik's Odyssee ?

cheers, Tom

wavelength · Post by **wavelength** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 10:40 pm

On 2003-03-29 18:45, astroman wrote:
On 2003-03-22 06:30, wavelength wrote:
... i knew that some (the couple) relatively recent purchasers would be annoyed,...
looks like I'm the other one
I wasn't annoyed at all, but on one hand happy the rest was so cheap now, on the other hand concerned, because the price didn't match the quality anymore.

I just received the announced update of the Europa - tnx a lot Stephen and keep on developing such nice devices.
Synths with a special character where tweaking is fun
One question left: is the name of the synth a reference to the Jupiter moon in Kubrik's Odyssee ?

cheers, Tom

you are a great supporter of my work.

"europa" is, in fact, one of the moons of Jupiter...

(a bit cheesy, I know, but somewhat appropriate) besides, synth names have a long history of having cheesy names.

hey, i just found this... http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets ... uropa.html

[ This Message was edited by: wavelength on 2003-03-29 22:43 ]

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 4:22 pm

Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is what 2001: A Space Odyssey revolves around...Where all those Monoliths come from

Wavelength, you devices are indeed quite good. I find this thread is giving me a guilty feeling of not having sent you anything...

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 5:43 pm

yeah Paul, it's one of my all time favourite movies

can you imagine my face when a couple of years ago they came up with that survey results, which made moon Europa the hottest candidate for exraterrestial life

was Kubrick THAT visionary ?

wavelength · Post by **wavelength** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 5:44 pm

On 2003-03-30 16:22, paulrmartin wrote:
Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is what 2001: A Space Odyssey revolves around...Where all those Monoliths come from

Wavelength, you devices are indeed quite good. I find this thread is giving me a guilty feeling of not having sent you anything...

wavelength · Post by **wavelength** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 5:49 pm

On 2003-03-30 17:43, astroman wrote:
yeah Paul, it's one of my all time favourite movies
can you imagine my face when a couple of years ago they came up with that survey results, which made moon Europa the hottest candidate for exraterrestial life
was Kubrick THAT visionary ?

hey, let's give Arthur C. Clark his due credit here!

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 9:59 pm

indeed - sometimes it's easy to make a fool of oneself - my deepest apologies to the author

Tom

[ This Message was edited by: astroman on 2003-03-30 22:00 ]

wavelength · Post by **wavelength** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 10:30 pm

On 2003-03-30 21:59, astroman wrote:
indeed - sometimes it's easy to make a fool of oneself - my deepest apologies to the author
Tom

[ This Message was edited by: astroman on 2003-03-30 22:00 ]

this is getting pretty OT, but whatever happened to the year 2001? we were all supposed to be shuttling back and forth from the moon, exploring the outer Solar System, jetting around in our flying cars, living in harmony with nature (and eachother), erasing disease, etc. etc... i guess shit-happens and gets in the way?

well, building sounds out of 1s and 0s is pretty cool...

scary808 · Post by **scary808** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 5:18 pm

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this is getting pretty OT, but whatever happened to the year 2001? we were all supposed to be shuttling back and forth from the moon, exploring the outer Solar System, jetting around in our flying cars, living in harmony with nature (and eachother), erasing disease, etc. etc... i guess shit-happens and gets in the way?

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Vietnam,AIDS,& greed to name a few hindering factors.

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 7:26 pm

Oh pooh!
Say "thank you" to Wavelength for his beautiful stuff, Scary and stop the gloom-and-doom. I'm sure we all watch the news and read papers(maybe).

This is a happy place, see ->

hehe

caleb · Post by **caleb** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:08 am

Stephen - I have actually downloaded every one of those "freeware" synths and haven't paid you a cent at this stage which is very norti of me.

However, I actually settled on only one that I thought I would use with any regularity which is the Avalon Euro which I was quite impressed with. The others weren't bad at all, just not for me.

As for Europa...well I've downloaded the demo but stupidly haven't tried it yet. I will give it a go and see how good it is. After Solaris I'm not sure if I'm really in the market for another synth, but a good synth is a good synth is a good synth...

I will contact you regarding the appropriate payment for Avalon Euro.