Keep up the good work. And make it free, or that we can make a donation if wished.
Hi puttenvr,
First, thanks for your encouragement.
Regarding the "free", I must confess that my first reaction was that I felt pissed off. You are in no position whatsoever that you can tell me to give away something that is mine. I will not make it free.
However, since you seem to be a nice guy, I trust that you meant nothing but good and you are forgiven. So perhaps I can give a little background why things are as they are.
First of all, there was a lot of fuss on this forum about the lacking sound editor. And being able to download sounds was also for me one of the key attraction factors. So when I found out that it was not that hard to do, I wrote a program that could do that. At that point I decided to productify the program, for several reasons:
- obviously it fulfilled a need, at least for some transient period of time
- to get some first experience with developing shareware. I have never developed shareware before, and DSoundTool is the perfect way for me to learn: people should not be to cricital since they have no alternative anyway but wait for 2box, but anyway be able to give useful feedback. This works out great, I have already learnt a lot (like the installation problems, etc).
(- and frankly, because I am one of those nerds who think it is fun to program, otherwise I would never have done this)
I want the shareware experience, since I have some other ideas (and have started development) for another tool, with similar type of audience but a little bit broader market. I am a free lance software developer. Currently I have an assignment and do well, but the times are tough. Perhaps I have no job in half a years time, and for me no job means no (= zero) money.
Of course I understand that few people would be interested to pay me something now, knowing that 2box will come with a free tool sooner or later. And frankly I do not need the money either at this moment. Still I bring at least a few of you a realistic value, viz. a better playing experience with your drumming system. So I thought it would be easier to accept to pay something if you actually know that the money you spend on the tool will be used for a good purpose. My naive assumption was that if people can afford a Drumit Five, then most of them can affort to spend 30 dollars on charity.
I will use this charity payment scheme at least until 2box releases its tool, and probably longer than that. Then we'll see. In the end I also would like to get experience with actually getting paid with all the machinery around it (setting up the payment services etc). But it will depend on a lot of things. Of course I understand the market is and will be tiny.
Sorry for this very long and probably boring explanation. Let's talk about something more fun: what features would you like to see in DSoundTool?
