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<blockquote data-quote="Adam Whetham" data-source="post: 117793" data-attributes="member: 40">Re: X32 DiscussionI appreciate your sarcasm in an honest discussion. Thank you for your lovely insight in the matter. I&#039;ll humor you with one response.As for your points.&nbsp;Not everyone that purchases a piece of hardware like this will frequent forums and want to read 400+ pages of information and posts (the very intellectual and fact forming ones like&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; yours most currently certainly would help them with information on the matter. Keep up the good work) The average user will go to the product page and see and update, and expect that if there would be an issue it would be listed under a compatibility section of some sorts, or listed somewhere (ala Yamaha digital consoles of the past with studio manager and all its wonderful ins and outs on what requirements were.) Behringer has no such thing listed. You have to go to the actual full console to even get a user manual for the Rack unit, as the rack unit only has a quick start guide and no official manual written for it.TL;DR - Behringer needs to get a little better at documentation for their hardware.As for a major firmware not working with the control program, In the IT world I live in, I find it confusing why they would release a piece of firmware without having supporting control. Even after I&#039;ve waited from the 2.0 software. I can understand places like the iTunes store where its out of there hands, But they are more than capable of updating their own mac, Windows, and Linux control programs without outside vendor approval. Its a simple matter of uploading the files. There are no excuses to be had for those.I&#039;m not saying I&#039;m in the right by any means, but the lack of official documentation on their site is troublesome to me. Adding new features shouldn&#039;t break old ones.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Adam Whetham, post: 117793, member: 40"] Re: X32 Discussion I appreciate your sarcasm in an honest discussion. Thank you for your lovely insight in the matter. I'll humor you with one response. As for your points. Not everyone that purchases a piece of hardware like this will frequent forums and want to read 400+ pages of information and posts (the very intellectual and fact forming ones like yours most currently certainly would help them with information on the matter. Keep up the good work) The average user will go to the product page and see and update, and expect that if there would be an issue it would be listed under a compatibility section of some sorts, or listed somewhere (ala Yamaha digital consoles of the past with studio manager and all its wonderful ins and outs on what requirements were.) Behringer has no such thing listed. You have to go to the actual full console to even get a user manual for the Rack unit, as the rack unit only has a quick start guide and no official manual written for it. TL;DR - Behringer needs to get a little better at documentation for their hardware. As for a major firmware not working with the control program, In the IT world I live in, I find it confusing why they would release a piece of firmware without having supporting control. Even after I've waited from the 2.0 software. I can understand places like the iTunes store where its out of there hands, But they are more than capable of updating their own mac, Windows, and Linux control programs without outside vendor approval. Its a simple matter of uploading the files. There are no excuses to be had for those. I'm not saying I'm in the right by any means, but the lack of official documentation on their site is troublesome to me. Adding new features shouldn't break old ones. [/QUOTE]

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