Re: [AH] warning about Kontakt 6

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
>>     >
>>