Thank you all so much for the warning about the curse of upgrading to 5.0. Hey Sonic Foundry: "YOU'VE BLOWN IT, AND YOU'RE CONTINUING TO BLOW IT".
As so often happens today, a company designs a great product, starts making money, and then gets greedy: "We should go public." Goodbye products. Goodbye customers. Marginalize everything.
I've never seen a better piece of Windows software than Soundforge & their add-ons. Please don't laugh, but I'm running SF4, with a P120, 10-gig SCSI, Gina sound card, a Plexwriter, & the bare minimum install of Windows 95. The program has crashed only ONCE since 1998, and due to this, I have been reluctant to touch anything and screw up a good thing. I brag on it quite often...I often wonder what their programming methodology is in order to have such solid programs.
5.0 has had my mouth watering---so I began investigating today. My intent was to upgrade my hardware & SF but keep my other configuration (except that 5.0 requires W98 it seems...I was dreading that thought).
I open this forum and simply couldn't believe what I was seeing. Some idiot, or idiots (obviously an accountant) has decided that CD Architect is a losing investment. Naturally as my luck goes, CDA is 1/2 as important to me as SF.
I use their product for analog conversion & archiving, and I'm sure you all know how wonderful SF/CDR is for that function.
So what do you all think someone like me should do? Stay with what I have? Upgrade to 5.0 & keep 4.0 on the system so I can run CDA? Buy another product? What have you all decided on?
Sorry for the rant.
As so often happens today, a company designs a great product, starts making money, and then gets greedy: "We should go public." Goodbye products. Goodbye customers. Marginalize everything.
I've never seen a better piece of Windows software than Soundforge & their add-ons. Please don't laugh, but I'm running SF4, with a P120, 10-gig SCSI, Gina sound card, a Plexwriter, & the bare minimum install of Windows 95. The program has crashed only ONCE since 1998, and due to this, I have been reluctant to touch anything and screw up a good thing. I brag on it quite often...I often wonder what their programming methodology is in order to have such solid programs.
5.0 has had my mouth watering---so I began investigating today. My intent was to upgrade my hardware & SF but keep my other configuration (except that 5.0 requires W98 it seems...I was dreading that thought).
I open this forum and simply couldn't believe what I was seeing. Some idiot, or idiots (obviously an accountant) has decided that CD Architect is a losing investment. Naturally as my luck goes, CDA is 1/2 as important to me as SF.
I use their product for analog conversion & archiving, and I'm sure you all know how wonderful SF/CDR is for that function.
So what do you all think someone like me should do? Stay with what I have? Upgrade to 5.0 & keep 4.0 on the system so I can run CDA? Buy another product? What have you all decided on?
Sorry for the rant.