Thank you, appreciate your input.
I've been checking for months evaluating current market and those soon to be synths.
So if anything worth having, it's REV2 - so agree fully with you there.
Extensive xmods is headroom for me, since a couple of years doing video as well - so sound design on the table, not only playable patches.
Talked to Clavia if they could reveal what is around the corner - since nobody does so creative synths that are fun to work with. And their thinking is really part of REV2 seem to be - really smart handling of xmod - just touching knobs for source and destination. But Clavia had nothing they could say now.
But why is a Beta still not arrived as a release candidate for 8 months was really disturbing. And still a list of reports on issues. Looked through release history but got no timestamps of the various releases - so have no clue on intervals.
Then looking at a list of midi interfaces not recommended not to use for updates - I created this thread as my experience with communications is extensive - and felt maybe some issues are due to too simplified transport of midi over to REV2 for OS. Something off here.
No data communciations, not even on internet or any network - do more than 2000 bytes in a block with crc as checksum principle - and here they expect 1 100 000 bytes just to stream over without interruption to device. And instead of looking at protocol used - they start a list of midi interfaces not to use.
Even my very first synth a CZ1000 1985 - had instructions and tips with pauses to make between when sending sysex to it. And see nothing of this sort - which I feel is relevant in this case.
Receiving device need to empty buffers and get time to do that in between - and check each block that crc(or chatever checksum principle used) is ok.
So look at what Sonar, now Cakewalk by Bandlab which is free, has as parameters - and you can see they really know something about communications.
So summing up a bit
- really long since last release candidate despite quite a list of reports - one of which is vital to me
- somewhat weird way of doing os update and getting all off conclusions what is the problem for some people
I lost all confidence in DSI. I don't know if this can be repaired - but at least thought if I could wake them up with some noise here to help existing owners. One guy in bug thread expressed something like DSI have before abandoned models with something serious lingering and not fixed.
It's not cheap units any of them - so the feeling of buying something that will remain buggy is not nice.
I heard a Prophet 5 in the 80's at a friends place - and that sound never left me. So been really curious of anything Prophet. I even got my first Nordlead due to that they replicated factory presets of Prophet 5 in rom. My Nordlead 2X has it too, even if those does not turn me on that much now.
Looked at Prophet 6 - but not enough xmods to be modern version for me. Mono synths - not for me. Looked at OB-6, but same about xmodes - will not extend what I can do enough, even having more filter types. So all pointing at REV2.
As I am writing I am doing some self therapy here trying if I can eventually repair trust in DSI - will see how that goes - if a release candidate of os arrive soon.
My Nordlead 2X is v1.00 - and no other was necessary to release. I know that does not go for all of the Nordleads - just one story. Nordlead A1 was v1.34 after 18 months. Here is REV2 after two years and have not seen an update in a long while with quite a list of issues.
DSI - it's sloppy handling and understaffed it seems to me.
Thanks for your contributions you did - I bookmarked your thread on stuff that is up my alley - digging into the nitty gritty stuff.