From Brian Willoughby Sent Sat, Sep 29th 2018, 20:41
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=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99t = 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. >=20 > 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). >=20 > Sam Mims > Syntaur >=20 >=20 >=20 > On 9/28/2018 1:26 PM, Kenny Balys wrote: >>=20 >> For those with rooms full of ASR's and EPS's and Akai's and Emax = samplers, >> Chicken Sys is famous. >>=20 >> I think he also created the "Trans Wave" sound library for the ASR = samplers. >>=20 >> Its genius stuff and if this man is concerned enough to post a = warning >> like this, then I am paying attention. >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> 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? >>=20 >> Its a classic "the customer wants what we tell them they want" move. >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> On 28.09.18 12:54 , DJ Maytag wrote: >>> Locked in? There=E2=80=99s a reason why I don=E2=80=99t use much of = anything from NI. They=E2=80=99ve >>> got their users hooked in to their upgrade cycles even MORE than = Apple does. >>>=20 >>> Also, I=E2=80=99ve never heard of Chicken Systems, but I find it = funny they=E2=80=99re 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: >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> NI has my respect for creating Reaktor but >>> they are Apple'ing out with Kontakt. >>>=20 >>> This is the exact reason I place very low value >>> on plug-in synths. >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> 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 >>> > >>>=20 >=20 >=20