[A6] Beware ribbon hold

[David Evans]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:21:40PM +0000, Paul Evenblij wrote:
> David Evans <dfevans at bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:I'd call it a bug, but it's easy to see how it came about.  Getting
> all the edge cases right for this sort of thing is a major PITA.  It's
> a good argument for writing synth firmware in soemthing like Haskell, I
> guess.  :P
> I was going to suggest Prolog :)
> 

  Heh.  I've been writing a bunch of Prolog this past week, actually.
Haven't used it in years--so much fun.

  Anyway, I wasn't trying to make excuses for software errors nor am I
claiming that Alesis shouldn't do something about them.  At the same
time, I think (and many others do too) that the A6 works well enough
to be a tremendous instrument.  Unless one of the bugs is a show-
stopper for you, I think that avoiding the Andromeda because of
software issues would be a bit like cutting off your nose to spite
your face.

-- 
David Evans
Faculty of Computer Science                     dfevans at bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada  http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/