Hi everyone and thanks for all your support and patience with us over the last months. I can fully understand your frustration with delays in the firmware updates. When designing sounds, recording or simply playing an instrument, I don’t like to deal with bugs or any kind of undesired behaviour either. As a synth user myself, I wholeheartedly agree with everyone of you on what needs to and should get fixed. Moreover I can assure you that the whole team at UDO is just as disappointed as you about the fact that a proper follow-up to v0.26 hasn’t been released yet, not least myself personally.
As you are aware, UDO is a new company, we are a very small company, and at this early stage we are reliant not just on our employees but on the continued support and dedication and in stressful times, the resilience of many people. I myself have given everything I have, and continued to do so. Along with the usual struggles of a new venture, the personal toll of events such as the CoVid pandemic that coincided with our start of production, Brexit coming into effect January this year, now a global semiconductor supply crisis has tested the very limits of my resilience.
At times, like many others during this hard period, my mental health has suffered. As the senior engineer and firmware developer for the Super 6, despite my best efforts, I have at times simply been simply unable in myself to stand up and deliver what has to be done on time for our valued supporters and customers and I have been a little ashamed by this.
My colleagues have stood up around me and brought quality products and support, but they need me for the instruments firmware, and it is only me who has fallen short of timely performance. This said I have never stopped and I am not stopping now, rather I feel we are just getting started.
The effect of all this for our supporters is delays and waiting much longer for updates than you should, and for that I am truly sorry and ask for your continued patience. I am committed to the Super 6 for the long haul, an update is well under way and plenty of features are already implemented on our test unit. These include the already mentioned overhaul of how the voices are being handled, full MIDI CC and NRPN support, USB MIDI, variable pan spread, an enormous increase in knob & fader precision, reduced note latency, continuously variable HPF and a much tighter clock response among other things that all contribute to improving the feel, musicality and playing experience and I can’t wait to get it to you. Once this is released, the final features including MPE support will be embarked upon.
Please hang on in there with me and know that I am working every day to keep improving our loved instruments and thanks for taking time to listen.
Kind regards, George
Director UDO Audio LTD