Re: [AH] warning about Kontakt 6

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.
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> 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).
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> Sam Mims
> Syntaur
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> On 9/28/2018 1:26 PM, Kenny Balys wrote:
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>> For those with rooms full of ASR's and EPS's and Akai's and Emax =
samplers,
>> Chicken Sys is famous.
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>> I think he also created the "Trans Wave" sound library for the ASR =
samplers.
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>> Its genius stuff and if this man is concerned enough to post a =
warning
>> like this, then I am paying attention.
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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>> Its a classic "the customer wants what we tell them they want" move.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>>> 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:
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>>>     NI has my respect for creating Reaktor but
>>>     they are Apple'ing out with Kontakt.
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>>>     This is the exact reason I place very low value
>>>     on plug-in synths.
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>>>     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
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>>>     > lorne
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