Event Ezbus $100 Rebate, Only through January 31st! Options

[Levon River]

Event Technology is offering a mail-in $100 rebate on any EZBus purchased prior to December 31st. Since most places sell it for around $599.00, that brings the net price for the little powerhouse down to just under $500.00 if you want one and can act fast--and can find any.

I realize the time is short for this notice, but since, as usual, Event Technology's Marketing Director (if they even have one) appears to be working overtime to keep this machine out of the hands of potential customers, I just found out about this myself and I thought I ought to post it if only on a better-late-than-never basis.

For those who don't know, the machine is an audio interface, a standalone digital mixer, a 2 I/O MIDI interface, and a control surface for music software, all rolled into one compact package, with an amazing array of configurable bussing/routing options built in. It provides two channels of audio I/O to the computer via USB out of the box, and there is an optional PCI card (the EZ8) that provides multiple I/O with the standard digital I/O formats. There is no OS X driver for that card at the moment, but MacMusic's own venerable buserror was working on one the last I heard, so hope blooms eternal.

I personally don't know of any similar bang-for-the-buck item, so with this incentive and some Christmas money, I broke down and ordered one. I'll come back with war stories and show you my scars after it arrives.

[Levon River]

Apple has no interest limiting hardware availability on their machines.

I hear the lyrics, buserror, but I don't hear no music. That's okay: you go right ahead and ignore the fact that the Apple-owned products--hardware and software, the ones that Apple has a DIRECT pecuniary interest in--are the ones that just *happen* to be crossing the finish line first. You won't mind if I don't ignore the facts as I see them.

Doing so would be stupid...

Uh, yeah. So what's yer point?

Remember I ported Sibelius too, and they did lots of work ; for example to be sure Sib worked perfectly on jaguar when it came out.

Remember that Apple does not OWN a directly competing product to Sibelius.

Really, it's just a question of demand vs price, that card is indeed cheap, so they'd have to sell thousands of EZ8 to mac users to be able to 1) pay me 2) make some money.

Oh, rhinoceros feathers! How many ways do you think there are to skin a cat? You and Event could sit down and negotiate a royalties deal with a non-refundable advance they could afford against that. They could hire an employee to do the programming, making it a work-for-hire. There is ALWAYS a way to get a product to market, but the FIRST requirement is the unwavering intention to do it, and also not having some interested party (notice that I did NOT say "Apple") standing around with a Howitzer to make damned sure that the thing *didn't* get to market.

Thats quite a gamble for a small company.

Well, I'd say they've got the formula for *staying* "a small company" down cold.