[A6] my thoughts

[Susan Baird]

Hi Ken,

> Consequently, Alesis/Numark may take more notice of our issues if we 
> are reaching more of their prospects with our complaints.  Get my 
> drift?

I get your drift. I've been thinking lately something similar but 
different, that if we do things to actually help them (!) then they 
will be more inclined to help us. Currently they have no real 
motivation to upgrade the OS even though it would seem logical from a 
marketing standpoint. I have spoken with them several times and I think 
they do not really have a marketing department that caters to the 
Andromeda. They are selling these synths regardless. That's because it 
is such a fabulous synth if nothing ever changed about it.

After a few discussions with Brian and some other people here, my 
thinking is that if we gave them some good A6 demos to put on their 
site, for example, that would help 'them'. I think taking a positive 
approach is always the way to go when possible. I'm sure there are 
other things we could do as well. In other words, build a positive 
bridge and relationship with them. Brian and a few others do already 
have an established relationship with them.


> I am a web designer/developer and I think I have the skills, resources,
> and time to put into building a more web-based front end to our
> community.perhaps similar to how the sldz1200.net site is setup.  What
> are everyone's thoughts?  I just feel like a more polished,
> professional, easy-to-use, easy-to-find community website would help
> emphasize our issues with the A6 and Alesis,  The squeaky wheel gets 
> the
> grease, right?

I believe that after a much discussion here and off-line, it has been 
determined that the email list is the best way to go for several 
reasons, although there are plans in the works for at least a home page 
that contains all the major links and whatever else it grows to - more 
of an information resource, rather than discussion-based. We have 
someone who is going to host the page and archives, etc. and is a back 
end developer. I am also a designer and do web design although it is 
not my main gig. If you would like to do the design for the home page 
and any further development that comes up with that, I would be very 
happy to chat with you off-list, tell you what we are doing, and show 
you what I'm doing design-wise. I really have more than I can do 
already with the Tips and Tricks document so your skills would be very 
helpful.


> I also tend to think that there MUST be at least one or two
> Alesis/Numark employees who monitor this list.so they likely already
> have our complete list of bugs and feature requests.

I also discussed this with them months ago. They said that they would 
'try' to have someone around but that they really don't have the 
resources to dedicate someone to the list. My feeling is that no one 
from there currently monitors this list.

Regards,
Susan