Generate Noise no more possible in AA CS5.5?

Is there any possibility to generate noise (and tones) in the new version of AA? Thanks.

No not yet. That will be implemented in a future update - time not determined.

No not yet. That will be implemented in a future update - time not determined.

All these things that should already be there, but are destined for a 'future update' - is this going to be a free maintenance release, or are we going to have to pay for another upgrade?

I realise you may not know the answer to this question (or you may, but not in a position to say) but I really think it's a question that needs asking and Adobe should answer.

[free maintenance release]

All these things that should already be there, but are destined for a 'future update' - is this going to be a free maintenance release, or are we going to have to pay for another upgrade?

I realise you may not know the answer to this question (or you may, but not in a position to say) but I really think it's a question that needs asking and Adobe should answer.

My thinking exactly.

I'm not prepared to buy at this stage, especially at the inflated non-US prices, but a promise of a (series of) free maintenance release(s) would probably tip the scales for me. Otherwise I'll wait for CS6 and re-evaluate.

Actually, on past performance, the only way Adobe are likely to answer such a question would be a maintenance release without prior announcement, which is fine as long as they don't keep us waiting too long.

All these things that should already be there, but are destined for a 'future update' - is this going to be a free maintenance release, or are we going to have to pay for another upgrade?

I realise you may not know the answer to this question (or you may, but not in a position to say) but I really think it's a question that needs asking and Adobe should answer.

I honestly don't know. They priced this release as they have a full product in the past, so I would have hoped that there might be some relief when it comes to upgrading it. Thing is, Adobe do have to be a bit careful; most people wouldn't regard having the facilities that AA3 had being returned to AA4 as an 'upgrade' anyway, would they? The only 'upgrade' as far as AA4 was concerned at that point would be anything that was actually added, and the speed increase. And most people would, I think, have regarded the price they've already paid as covering that.

So you could say that on the face of it, they couldn't morally charge anything more at all, could they? But I bet it won't work like that at all. I suspect that their point of view about this would be that if they can deliver most of the backlog of features, and that most of them are enhanced in some way, they'd still be entitled to charge something for future upgrades. But as I said, I really don't know - this is a commercial decision, and also you have to factor in that they're a publicly traded company. And in America, since the Enron fiasco, this has placed certain obligations upon them in terms of Sarbox compliance. And I'll tell you for nothing that even the developers don't know quite where that will lead. At least one of them has confirmed in public that there are definitely implications to it, though - and they are inevitably financial.

I think that the bottom line here is that there will be absolutely 'no comment' for a while...

I hope AA becomes what all its users want it to be - good old AA with all its functionality + improvements and new features. I love what is new in AA but the missing parts of it makes it absolutely useless for my work.

I hope AA becomes what all its users want it to be - good old AA with all its functionality + improvements and new features. I love what is new in AA but the missing parts of it makes it absolutely useless for my work.

It's not just the 'missing' features that compromise it for me - it's also the stuff that worked really well for me in 3.0 that they've changed in 5.5.  One comment from an Adobe person suggested that some of these changes I don't like were the result of previous feature requests.  So, now I'm making feature requests to get it back to the way I liked it in 3.0.  It's a bit like a carousel.

I miss the Syntrillium era.

I miss the Syntrillium era.

Amen to that.