From sam Sent Fri, Sep 28th 2018, 19:55
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 >> > >>