Re: [AH] warning about Kontakt 6

From Kenny Balys
Sent Sat, Sep 29th 2018, 20:58

Thanks for all the wonderful info and for clearing up my false impression.


Brian, if your article(s) is(are) handy why not post it(them) here on AH? It
will find its way to the archives and I, for one, would find it very interesting
reading.


As a side comment, I really think it corrupt that both Emu and Ensoniq were
shuttered by Creative Labs which made its money from a dead simple sound card
(the Sound Blaster) that any first year student could have built. I have a chip
on my shoulder over this. The cultural loss to the world is tragic.


On 29.09.18 20:43 , Brian Willoughby wrote:
> I can confirm this, and was planning to write a response saying the same as
> Sam, below. Bill Mauchly is certainly the original creator of TransWaves. I
> can also confirm that he’s a super-nice guy: I had lunch with him while
> working with ENSONIQ on drivers for their AudioPCI and Soundscape cards.
> Prior to that, he would answer all of my questions about the EPS and ASR-10
> when I would get deep into tricky editing and stump the usual support folks.
>
> I suppose Garth may have developed additional TransWaves. There are ways to
> get the pre-TransWave ENSONIQ samplers to do the same thing as TransWaves -
> by modulating the loop offset of a sample - but it takes very precise
> preparation of the audio samples and parameters. I cannot recall whether
> anyone developed TransWave-like sample sets for the pre-TransWave hardware,
> but Garth would have been on the short list of those who might have done
> that.
>
> I wrote a few articles for the Transoniq Hacker, but I can’t recall whether
> more than one or two got published. I may have an article about getting
> something like TransWaves going on the EPS, without the actual TransWave
> chips.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Sep 28, 2018, at 12:56 PM, Sam Mims <xxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>> Actually, the guy behind the TransWaves is Bill Mauchly.  He was a software
>> guy at Ensoniq, and created the TransWaves in the VFX, as well as many of
>> the effects programs in the synths and samplers.  He launched WaveBoy as a
>> side project, and sold the effects algorithm disks for the EPS-16 and
>> ASR-10, as well as the TransWave library.  He later licensed the WaveBoy
>> distibution to Garth at Rubber Chicken.
>>
>> Bill is an interesting and super-nice guy.  His dad developed the Eniac
>> computer (which my dad worked with during his time in the Army).
>>
>> Sam Mims Syntaur
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/28/2018 1:26 PM, Kenny Balys wrote:
>>>
>>> For those with rooms full of ASR's and EPS's and Akai's and Emax
>>> samplers, Chicken Sys is famous.
>>>
>>> I think he also created the "Trans Wave" sound library for the ASR
>>> samplers.
>>>
>>> Its genius stuff and if this man is concerned enough to post a warning
>>> like this, then I am paying attention.
>>>
>>> This winter I plan on spending a few weeks digging through my old master
>>> tapes from the 80s using a restored Fostex X-15 and a little more digging
>>> with my Akai sampler, Dr.T's sequencer and my Akai sound library on my
>>> FPGA based Atari ST. This will be fun and its possible because everything
>>> is compatible and works with everything else.
>>>
>>> The locked in sound libraries of Kontakt will make a journey like this
>>> impossible for people in 30 years. Their sound libraries are at the mercy
>>> of NI... will they still support a tool to read them? Are they under any
>>> obligation to? What if the company does not exist?
>>>
>>> Its a classic "the customer wants what we tell them they want" move.
>>>
>>> There is, no doubt, talk in the secret NI room about monthly billing for
>>>  software use. This is an obvious next step: turning customers into
>>> dependent slaves, killing off all third party support, losing all
>>> business from me.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 28.09.18 12:54 , DJ Maytag wrote:
>>>> Locked in? There’s a reason why I don’t use much of anything from NI.
>>>> They’ve got their users hooked in to their upgrade cycles even MORE
>>>> than Apple does.
>>>>
>>>> Also, I’ve never heard of Chicken Systems, but I find it funny they’re
>>>>  located in Willmar, MN, a very small farming community in southwest
>>>> MN. It never struck me as a big place for music software development.
>>>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 4:00 AM Kenny Balys <xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
>>>> <mailto:xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> NI has my respect for creating Reaktor but they are Apple'ing out with
>>>>  Kontakt.
>>>>
>>>> This is the exact reason I place very low value on plug-in synths.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 28.09.18 04:45 , Lorne Hammond wrote:
>>>>> disturbing news that you should read if you use kontakt
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.chickensys.com/news/20180927/lockedin.php
>>>>>
>>>>> lorne
>>>>>
>>>>
>>