@Jesse
When I discovered Breakaway, I was completely blown away by both Live and Broadcast. And it seemed I was not alone. In no time a large userbase was created. radiostations all over the world could now afford top-of-the-line processing without having to spend thousands of dollars.
That loyal userbase became an instant marketingtool for the product. And, so it was promised by the people behind Breakaway, it would only get better. A new framework would offer unprecendented possibilities and functionality users asked for would be added in 'the new version'. Users were teased and kept on their toes with 'passive agressor', a new preset that could beat anything out there. In fact, the quality of Breakaway and mouth to mouth advertising was so powerful that the big O's scratched their heads. One of them made the engineer that created this awesome software an offer he just could not refuse. An offer no-one in his right mind would turn down.
The Breakaway community feared that would be the end of Breakaway as they knew it. But they completely understood the choice that was made and cherished what they had. The engineer nevertheless promised, again and again, Breakaway would definately be updated and would reach a 1.0 status. So the community sat on their hands and waited because they understood 'The big red O' consumed a lot of time.
Then the 'The big red O' hardware version of Breakaway emerged. And everybody cheered because with the introduction of this new framework and 'Undo' new levels of perfection had been achieved. The price however was somewhat of a disappointment, it was in the 'I don't have that kind of money' range. Nevertheless everybody could understand the fact that spareparts, services and licences cost money too. And hey, this was surely a sneak preview of things to come, a preview of the new Breakaway that was promised to all users.
But time past and no new version was released. The engineer that once was so responsive now seemed to ignore questions and didn't even answer direct questions on the Breakaway userforum. The forum started to die and here and there some complaints could be heared. Not about the old Breakaway, not about the choices made, but about lack of... let's call it honesty. People could simply not understand why, years later, the engineer that provided such a great tool to small broadcasters now simply abandoned them without even saying goodbye. With only that promise echoing in their ears.
During IBC 2013 Omnia 9/XE was released. It offers functionality that was once promised to the Breakaway community. And more. Running on the same new framework as O.9 but without MPX output it offers perfect processing for online and/or digital use. Breakaway Live but better. And more than 10x the price. And with that it is out of reach of those who had marketed Breakaway to the world. And great setting are no longer shared but sold seperately. One preset costing more than what the old Breakaway Live can be bought for.
Again: No one judges anybody for grabbing a great business opportunity. No one. But when has this become a sensitive subject? And why? Why has Leif turned his back on Breakaway users? Why does he have an active Facebook account but does he not answer that one big question on the Forum about the future of Breakaway?
You could off course tell me to ask Leif himself but when I asked him if the new Breakaway Live is gonna be like the processing part of Omnia 9/XE? And if the new Breakaway will indeed be released this year, I did not get an answer. I just got piched. Thread:
http://radiodiscussions.com/showthr...ke-this-might-be-the-quot-New-Breakaway-quot-!!
