Folktek Mescaline

[Ruiner]

238 systems sold so far. In the last 24 hours 25 systems were sold, meaning that with 11 days left they need to sell around 24 systems every day in order to hit the next goal and give us more tasty effects. Could get tricky...

Hey, Ruiner. Buy a couple more plz ktnx!

100 of these would look cool next to each other....

[MrNovember]

238 systems sold so far. In the last 24 hours 25 systems were sold, meaning that with 11 days left they need to sell around 24 systems every day in order to hit the next goal and give us more tasty effects. Could get tricky...

Hey, Ruiner. Buy a couple more plz ktnx!

262 of these would look cool next to each other....

Fixed

[Antlerface]

What I don't get is if the effects are indeed ready to go, and make the system more fun and musical, why tease w them instead of just making the product the best you possibly can?

[raj007]

What I don't get is if the effects are indeed ready to go, and make the system more fun and musical, why tease w them instead of just making the product the best you possibly can?

Ya I feel like 500 was pretty ambitious to unlock that goal.

Crowd funding works this way sometimes...

[ProCarsteNation]

Well partly because it is not all software?

If we sell 250 complete systems, we're going to add an effect control on Channel for the DSP
and add a selector to allow you to change from the reverb to another custom designed effect

as for the extra FX @500...
Sure, I get how this might feel weird for a customer,
but then again, you gotta have something for stretch goal,
& surely software has a value, too?

[Strange Tales]

What I don't get is if the effects are indeed ready to go, and make the system more fun and musical, why tease w them instead of just making the product the best you possibly can?

If they're DSP effects I assume the stretch goal is "If we reach X dollars, we will develop and program more effects in."

[Dark Barn]

Maybe they will offer it as a paid firmware upgrade if they don't hit the goal? Something you could pester him for if it doesn't make it.

[UglyCasanova]

What I don't get is if the effects are indeed ready to go, and make the system more fun and musical, why tease w them instead of just making the product the best you possibly can?

If they're DSP effects I assume the stretch goal is "If we reach X dollars, we will develop and program more effects in."

Nope. They're already ready to go:

[Antlerface]

That's what I'm saying. Why threaten to not make the thing as awesome as possible?

If you're going to develop the effects anyways and you're already putting some DSP shit into the machine why not max 'em out just to do it and make your thing better?

[UglyCasanova]

This is the spinchip all over again.

[Ruiner]

No idea how this kind of thing works but.... can effects be loaded into the DSP with firmware upgrades? I'm wondering if he can sell the other effects afterwards if we don't hit that goal and maybe you can get a bunch of effects? If so that could be a smart move by him and also really cool since you can bypass everything else and just use the effects for whatever input signal you have going in

[Antlerface]

Looks like they hit 250. I would be surprised to see it hit 500 with the way it's slowed down though.

[UglyCasanova]

Sound of Channel only

https://soundcloud.com/arius-blaze/soun ... ed-channel

[oscillateur]

That's what I'm saying. Why threaten to not make the thing as awesome as possible?

If you're going to develop the effects anyways and you're already putting some DSP shit into the machine why not max 'em out just to do it and make your thing better?

If you feel threatened by a stretch goal in a crowdfunding for a very cool but definitely not vital musical instrument then you should maybe reconsider some of your life choices ?
Software has value, he does not have to put everything in there, and this is probably code that can also be used for future products.
Insert rant about entitlement and definitely needing more sleep, too.

[Antlerface]

If you feel threatened by a stretch goal in a crowdfunding for a very cool but definitely not vital musical instrument then you should maybe reconsider some of your life choices ?
Software has value, he does not have to put everything in there, and this is probably code that can also be used for future products.
Insert rant about entitlement and definitely needing more sleep, too.

Hold the fuck up. You giving me life advice because I asked a genuine question?

I didn't say he NEEDED to do shit. Was wondering why it seemed a sound business plan to 'tease' effects but only put 'em into the instrument if a (lofty) goal was hit.