Hoping for some feedback from GarageCUBE on development progress and what the future might hold. How's it going?
As a Lighting/Video professional, my gear (including software like Modul8) is critical to creating the final "product" (the live performance). Let me say first that Modul8 is fantastic, a leader in the field, and perhaps UNDERPRICED. ...note to GarageCUBE... if you raise prices, please keep upgrades free for the faithful!
As a professional though, I'm constantly re-evaluating the tools available to me, and exploring the options that are around. This is probably true of most of the Modul8 users out there, I would think. Video Projection / VJing / Video Mixing / etc is a very cutting edge performance art, and if you weren't checking out the latest and greatest you'd probably be DJing a wedding with an 8-Track. Actually, I'd bet most users of Modul8 never owned an 8-Track, and there are probably a few of you who just Googled "8-Track" to find out what I was talking about, or just assumed it was a mixer with 8 channels.
Back to the point. If there is an alternative available that might be easier, better, faster, more creative, extensible or in some yet-to-be-discovered way superior to Modul8, I'll definitely look into it. Right now I don't think there is.
Will this hold true in the future? Consider me a "stockholder" who is hoping for an annual report. Or a citizen interested in the "State of the Union". How are things at GarageCUBE, and how is Modul8 development coming along?
The 2.5.5 beta has been out for 5 months now... That's a bit longer than previous x.x.X beta periods as far as I can remember. Are there still significant outstanding bugs?
How about some hints on possible features/improvements? I would be interested to know what might be in the works for a 2.6/3.0 update and a rough estimate for a timeline. Schedules are hard to predict when it comes to software development, I understand, so we won't hold you to it. We can handle "vague".
There's no hurry, specifically, but while mapping out my long-range plans (the next 18-24 months), I hope for some confident gesture from GarageCUBE that we can expect innovation to continue on a pace like we've seen in the past couple years.
I realize that when innovation is key to success, then keeping innovative developments secret is important to a competitive advantage. Apple is a keen example of that. There's no need to give away the Col's Secret Recipe of Herbs and Spices here, I'm just wondering about some basics, like will we see more video tracks and a larger media browser? You can leave the secret features like the "egomaniac musician teleporter", the "subliminal buy our dvd messaging system", or perhaps the "make the ugly vocalist sexy filter" under wraps until the big 3.0 release.
Need some ideas? Check out my Modul8 wishlist posted in this thread.
Or you can ignore the peanut gallery and keep doing whatever it is you do to keep improving Modul8. I do have faith that GarageCUBE will continue to improve and impress, but I can always "ask for a sign from the creators," right?
Blair