From Brian Willoughby Sent Thu, May 2nd 2019, 21:08
From Brian Willoughby Sent Thu, May 2nd 2019, 21:08
There never would have been a Moog with a keyboard if Robert hadn=E2=80=99= t listened to customers. There were no online forums in the vintage analog days, so your point is = completely irrelevant. Arguably, the success of Moog, Yamaha, Roland, ARP, Buchla and others is = directly proportional to the amount of user feedback. Buchla probably = took very little feedback from users, due to his vision, and thus his = products remained expensive and rare. Moog and the Japanese probably = took the most feedback from users, and their products enjoyed the = benefits of massive success. Brian On May 1, 2019, at 2:04 AM, Phil a <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > that's if you hire clueless engineers or maybe not the engineers but = the guys on top in their office which approve or not the incoming ideas, = not sure how you call them, they are called artistic directors in the = music field. > As far as I know Bob Moog, Don Buchla, Peter Zinovieff, but also = Roland and even Yamaha when they chose to design the CS-80 didn't rely = on user feedback form online forums, did they ? > They relied essentially if not only on what is called a vision. >=20 > Phil >=20 >=20 > On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 02:51, M V <xx_xxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > Right. Relying on your in-house team and their market "insight" alone = will just result in the kind of clueless, uninspired garbage that Roland = have been putting out for the last decade.=20 >=20 > From: Mike SynMike <xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 7:46 PM > To: Neil Harper; Analogue Heaven AH > Subject: Re: [AH] CS80 > =20 > Isn't asking for input like from users this exactly what a marketing = research team might do to gather market input? >=20 >=20 > > On Apr 30, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Neil Harper <xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx> wrote: > >=20 > >=20 > > On 4/30/19 2:37 PM, Ben Bradley wrote: > >> "If we made a CS-80, do you want a vintage reissue or a modern = evolution?" > >=20 > > why don't you ask your designers, engineers and market research = teams?? > > seriously... hire someone with a vision and figure this shit out = yourself. > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > -- > > /// Neil Harper > > /// Every Wave is New Until it Breaks >=20 >=20