I don't understand this.

Mediastation is still in development

Why can't Lionstracs be honest and just tell people that Mediastation is a development project and not a ready product

You can't make people pay for something that isn't finished yet. In software we would talk about things like Mediastaion will be entering beta phase soon. The products you two have or have had must clearly be alpha versions. very early in development.

As the planned operation system (System 64, debian based Linux) is still in development, current verion 0.6 was late, 0.7 is 3 months overdue allready and 1.0 should be done in 2 weeks, thats clearly not going to happen before late summer. And then Lionstracs has to get the final version of it working with their harware, and finetune it.

LinuxSampler Giga was released in Februari 2006, and should allready be implemented in final version in the mediastation. its an okay smapler, but not one with nearly the same possibillities that Kontakt or gigastudio have.

Next to that the final version of the instrument should have a touchscreen as one of the videos shows.

With wine and stuff like that more and more VST's are running under Linux, most Native instruments run, and some steinberg (not The grand) also on this part progression is being made by the linux community.

What worries me most is the quallity of their DSP boards, as they will be producing the audio that leaves the system they are so very important. Since i haven't heard the system live, i can't have an opinion on those. but this worries me most.

What i am missing most on the hardware part is knobs ...atleast 8 knobs that give me the opportunity to play with sounds and filtersettings live should be on the system and easy accessible.

In the end, i still beleive this project will give one of the most flexible instruments build to dat. with a release maybe on small scale after the summer, and a stable system in 2 years.

I as a Linux enthousiast and Solaris system admin will be following this very close. To bad the open source development teams are not so open source with their information.

I currently am looking intoo a Wersi ABACUS/OAS system, which runs under windows....perfect sound, but only 4 VST's can be choosen, and it takes to long on the instrument to change them in a life performance. So basically, when used to perform live on the system you choose 4 Vst instruments and use them in all your performances and stick with them all night. And thats just not flexible enough for me as a performer. I want more....I want Lionstracs to bring me the all in one solutionor maybe even General music surprise us at Musikmesse (they allways had these great ideas)
Next to that i think Korg made a big mistake by building their OASIS not in a way that it could load VST's too.

So for now we have 2 people that have played/heard the thing. So one thing i need to know from you guys Graig and Philipe. How is the quallitty of the DSP board. (Not the quallitty of the samples....but the quallity of 3rd party instruments that are used on the systems....the audio quallity)


Greetings