Midifighter Twister - Firmware - No update since August 2014
Hey Stewe and Dj Tech Tools staff.
Back on 03-04-2016, 08:45 AM, we were told (Stewe) that "...working on it...will keep you posted...". Because you told us to wait for a cure, we did. This hasn't happened, we still are waiting on an update for over a year.
Crying that "we are a small team" whilst promising us "something is coming" only makes your paying customers sit in blind hope whilst something may never come. If you cannot meet the demands of your community, just be honest with us and say so. Please stop making bullshit promises that you cannot live up to and telling us you can fix it if you can't. We just need to know honestly if it will ever be fixed or now. We can deal with it if you cant, we just want to know if it's realistically possible. We are paying customers, but beyond that we are capable of being told that there is no fix coming and can circumvent inevitabilities.
There are some serious and well established defects with the current firmware (eg midi sync issues), nobody is expecting these are easy to fix. But please be honest with us and stop sticking the "a fix is coming" thumb up our asses. You could pay us a little more respect by saying something like "it's too hard for us to find a fix right now" or "our business needs to focus on other areas" or whatever other understandable reason is making it too hard to fix - we know that these things are sometimes hard to fix.
Please stop feeding us bullshit and lies, when we are the community that built you up and purchased your products.
Som bugs I have constant problems with
Hello guys!
Maybe this is the right place to write it. A few months ago I wrote a message to support but it was totally ignored with no answer.
My complaints are about just the basic functionality - the sync between Midi Fighter Utility and my Twister.
The bug which makes me mad angry is that sometimes when I set a new colours setup or change anything in MFU and send it to the MF, it COMPLETELY messes up my midi numbers which I want to stay as they are (1-64 stepwise). Then it of course completely messes my midi mappings in Ableton, because eg. the knob sending cc23 before is now sending some random different number (mostly they change to 64). Then I have to check all the midi numbers and set them manually again and again. I have done it for many times always with a big frustration.
Beside that there are some other bugs, such as sometimes one colour randomly changes with no reason or MFU crashes, or does not load the current state of the device correctly.
I would also very appreciate selecting multiple knobs with SHIFT rather than having to click every knob manually and de-click it afterwards and I agree with guys above about being available to control more funtions via midi from Ableton rather than via buggy MFU.
To be honest I use MF Twister with USB hub when on stage which isn't recommended, BUT I never make changes in setup and any syncing through USB hub, I always stick it directly to my macbook when connecting to MidiFighter Utility. (When performing, I have simply no way to avoid usb hub, since my macbook pro has only 2 slots and my whole live gear contains 6 usb devices, isn't it a quite usual situation for all live performers? I have bought dLink powered hub - DUB H7 recommended here on DJTT in the related article)
Anyone can help how to solve this problems? I'd be really very happy if the new firmware solved these essential bugs.
My setup:
Macbook pro 2011
Ableton 9.6. legit
Focusrite saffire pro 40
Thanks
Michal