I hope this isnt part of the new software developer trend of selling you a beta, whereby buyers go through a 12 month testing phase, then release the finished product ?
There's a number of deveopers done this recently, just to create a revenue stream for the product before it gets off the drawing board, which in my opinion is wrong.
Sorry if i'm jumping to conclusions here, but without so much as an audio demo to listen to, it does make me wonder.