I know this is an old thread, but I think it needs a bump. I ran across it doing a bit of digging as I am working with a client to decide whether they invest in GLD or SQ, and I think this is a great example of how frustrating the current state of information flow is.
It’s now May 2018. We’ve seen some -minor- additions (Dimensional Chorus FX unit, “ProFactory” PEQ Presets, AMM Follow Fader and Global In/Out), and a couple of bugfixes, but not a lot else. Certainly nothing along the lines of some very sought after features (Ducker, Compression side-chain).
Nicola’s statement above, which starts out “GLD is still very much a current product in our range”, sounds very similar to the statement made about iLive roughly 16 months before dLive was introduced, at which point iLive was moved to the “Discontinued Products” graveyard. This was pretty big blow to those of us that own iLive systems. We were told about how committed A&H was to iLive, then near silence, then the platform discontinued.
I’d like to recommend GLD to my client, as dLive is far out of their budget, and GLD has the bus flexibility that they need (versus SQ, which is, at least presently, fixed). However, it’s really hard to make that recommendation without any concrete lifecycle information.
Nicola & the rest of the A&H team, we need transparency on product and firmware lifecycle.
