When I first started to write TD Drum Studio, i was planning to create a tool that will allow V-Drummers to easily manage their Drum Kits Collection. After the first few releases came out, I was astonished by the amount Feedback i received. The Number of download was Sky Rocketing and i received regularly comments, suggestions, feature requests and other type of Feedback. This gave me motivation to continue and developed this Tool.

My choice of Technology in this project was to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, an amazing development environment which i had the chance to receive a (Legal) Copy of. The experiment with this advanced technology and IDE environment surely made my life easy
and saved me weeks of work. its truly a wonderful Development Environment and i hope i get the chance to work with it in the future.

Although it was a very good choice of technology, there are some issues that I didn’t take under consideration when i choose it. Portability.
As it turns out, many V-Drummers work with MAC (Surprise Surprise), and so they couldn’t use this program since MS.NET is not portable to MAC. I tried to use some solutions to make this program work, such as Project MONO - But the result was not very satisfying.
In time, some Linux people started asking me for a working version too... so you can pretty much see the point.

A lot of people who contact me had shown interest in the Source Code of this project. some of them had their own ideas about features to add, and even offered their time and help in adding them. Some just wanted to see how things work.
So many people have contacted me, that i find that a big portion of my spare time goes just to answer these emails. it wasn’t a simple task to answer all of them, but i did my best to make most of the people happy.

All of these issues had made me come to three decisions regarding the future of this project: