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In article <BxH408.DDs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> rjm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ryan Mitchell) writes:
>Sorry to be complaining to what seems to be a fine person, but
>it has to be said:
>
>Norman,
>
>ModEdit 3.1 may very well be an excellent piece of
>software but I won't be purchasing it because it DOESN'T follow
>the shareware concept--it's crippleware.  In its downloadable 
>state I can't test it for anything but use as a MOD player and 
>I've seen several better as far as that goes.  The real-time
>recorder and piano-roll display are both disabled, which are
>the two fundamental selling points of the program.  I was really 
>excited to hear that there was going to be a functional recorder 
>out but I refuse to spend money on any "shareware" I can't test 
>first, simply because it goes against the very concept of shareware.
>This method, which is unfortunately used by many, many PC
>authors, is more of a "You-have-the-skeleton-program-but-must-pay-
>for-anything-useful" approach rather than shareware.
>
>Ryan

Well, I think Ryan has a good reason for thinking in this way.  The program
has now very nice features but the only one we can be aware is the piano roll
schemme.  Norman, I think you could get more registered users if you let them
test the whole program with all its features.  Of course you can, for example,
disable the save option, in this way people can test the software in its full
capacity and if they like it they'll have to register it to be able to save
their work.  It's just an idea, you can figure out another way to do it but
definitely disabling important features is not the way.

One more thing, in modedit 2.0 there were a part of the screen with the title
of the song been edited.  In 3.0 there's no title or filename and the only way
to be aware what I've just loaded is to play it or to look for it's title in
the menu.  This is not big deal but just an idea of what to add in the next
release.  Also, I think a metronome (using the pc speaker maybe) could be a
good help while doing real time recording.  Sorry for compare, but I like the
real time recording in Whacker Tracker but since there's no way how to track
the tempo/meter it's hard to recording on real time.

BTW, at first glance, i think this program is really good!

Juan Leon