[Sheldon Radford]

Hi Justin,

Sorry for sending the wrong message. It wasn't my intent to be clandestine or corporate, as the situation's not any different than other feature requests.

Increasing the FireWire track count has been "on the list" for some time. Long enough, in fact, that people could interpret this as "it must be coming soon" or "they'll never do it". The truth is pretty simple: it is indeed "on the list" - but let's be clear that this is a huge and evolving list, and while we'd love to address every item, it's simply not possible; so there's no guarantee that every feature on the list will make its way to the platform.

Prioritizing features and balancing our engineering resources to give customers the best feature set is the toughest challenge we face with each release. It means we have to make trade offs, like delaying really cool, unquestionably useful features (such as bookmarks, or expanding the FireWire track count), in order to focus the team on the larger picture of developing a product like SC48 to further grow our roots in the live sound market.

Of course customer feedback drives all of this, so keep up the comments and suggestions!

Sheldon