Matthias, do you have a time of day as well for us?
Reason being: I can leave the office earliest @ 15:00 CET (I have very, very flexible working hours at my daytime job), but if the sale opens later (at, say 17:00 CET) I will stay longer and do shorter hours tomorrow instead.
(And yes, I may sound manical here, but this is the software release I’m looking forward to most since the release of the first Firefox - and I’m not joking here. Not even HL3 could top the scripting, the macro page editor and, since I came to understand today what the wavetable synthesis in Halion 6 is REALLY about, the wavetable engine. My girlfriend is already well briefed about the features of Halion 6 as well, since she sees me work in Halion 5 most of the time in my home studio anyway. )
Btw, I think Steinberg should release it today - I need to get stuck in whilst I’m on holiday! To hell with all the marketing - that can come later, just make it downloadable now!
I say make THE TRIAL IMMEDIATELY downloadable, I for one, would like to see how many glitches and bugs have been fixed from HALion 5.x . I’m excited about HAL6, but also feel so skeptical given H5 and the lack of forth coming updates - (please visit the HAL.5.x forum to read of all the support and bug fixes so many users have been asking/requesting/pining for … )
If SB have been working , developing on this product for such a long period of time, it’s also most probable that they also already have the trial, and the delay to release the trial is more about commercial/marketting pre opportunity - well in my opinion
Why would they make the trial immediately available - it could put off the initial upgraders! The trial is surely for catching the people who are undecided, later on. If it was a priority it would have been out on release day that’s for sure. The trial is what is known as an afterthought!