Magazine reviews and publicity for Metro

[Jazzdude]

I was wondering if y'all have any interest in seeing Metro be reviewed by some of the magazines out there. I like Metro and have been using it since version 3, but there's probably a lot of folks out there who are not familiar with it. The heavy hitter programs (and their heavy pricing) seem to get a lot of reviews and publicity (guess who pays for the advertising!). Metro fills a need for a mid-priced program with lots of useful and unique features, and in my opinion, capable of producing some very professional sounding results. What do ya think about a positive blab campaign from the grass roots users (i.e. - letters to the editor, etc.)?

[Jerm]

I am all for it

[Gary K. Doty Sr.]

I have always thought that Metro never gets the GLORY that it deserves.
It is a wonderful, stable and powerful music platform, that is often overlook
because it is not one of the "Big Three" or "Four".
I find that Metro 6 has provided all the tools you need to take your music
ideas through their musical refinements, to bring your music to life in a
Audio/Midi program that is easy to use.
The program gets better and better, refined with each update.
Jeremy and The Sagan Tech Team listens to the input of the users to provide
features the user would like to see in Metro and it doesn't take 6 months or a year for features to appear.
Even if I could afford Pro Tools or Logic Pro, I personally will keep using Metro because I know that Metro will always keep the user in mind, when
it comes to Sagan Tech's products.
I would support any efforts to shed light on Metro 6 to uninformed musical public.
Gary K. Doty Sr.

[fastlanephil]

Jazzdude

I think your best chance is with Macaddict for main stream press though it seems that Macaddict of late is reaching parody with Macworld. I emailed Maccentral(Macworld) about the release of Metro 6 for OSX but they seem to only report products from the major music developers that show at the expo. It's sort of a catch 22. But that's show biz.

[Jazzdude]

I read Electronic Musician, EQ, Recording, and MacWorld. Some of these have done reviews or have mentioned Metro in the past. Home Recording magazine would have been a good place to start, but it is now defunct. Some of the writers are now working for Electronic Musician. I can write a letter to the editor of EM and hopefully stir up some interest.

[fastlanephil]

Sounds good. I was thinking it would be good to try and reach users that haven't already bought into Windows and or one of the major sequencer brands. I figure if someone is subscribing to a music mag they may all ready have the basic software. But many novices will pick up a music mag to get ideas about available software and with GarageBand and the Mac Mini there should be a certain number of people that want to grow beyond looping or may have an older PC using a lower end PC sequencer and are thinking about adding the Mac Mini to get GarageBand and will eventually want a full featured sequencer/audio program. Logic Express is Apple's solution but as nice a program as it is it looks like you are stuck with the instruments that come with it and rewire apps. Metro will give you most of what Logic offers but with out the budget busting price. Tell them that.

[Scoot]

How about offering demo CD's of Metro at the local Mac Store?
Or would the mac staff always be pushing garageband only?


Also if any of the schools in Massachusetts have music departments, maybe approach them once they get their ibooks.....

[fastlanephil]

I'll ask the synth guy at the music store in Olympia if I could leave some demo CDs there. They sell very little software so I think they might.

[kaboombahchuck]

Another way to support Metro would be to post a review at www.macmusic.org in the software (soft) section of the site in sequencers. There are no reviews... although Metro 6.2x is getting a popularity rating of five of five stars.....