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2003-01-29 by Matt McKenzie-Smith
This rant may well be getting out of hand. Art may have nothing to do with this. I mean how many other times have we seen another software co coming up with a rip off of someones software? Sit tight till we know facts, not speculation _________________ Matt McKenzie-Smith PO Box 10395 Adelaide 5000 South Australia +61416 197 883
2003-01-30 by Murray McDowall
Matt McKenzie-Smith wrote: > > This rant may well be getting out of hand. Art may have nothing to do > with this. This seems to be the case: since his original "no comment" on the Bitshift Forum Art posted the following -- ____________
> > Sorry, that 'no comment' has caused a lot of trouble off the forum. > > I shouldn't have used the 'wink' emoticon. The point is, I don't really know > what to say... I saw the Intakt presentation at NAMM... it was a very > well-done powerpoint presentation, but I couldn't find anyone at N.I. who had > actually seen it running, so I couldn't find out much. > > It looks really nice, albeit somewhat familiar (like pHATmatik PRO raped > Kontakt and this is the offspring). I'm surprised, because I expected them to > add this feature to Kontakt. As a happy Kontakt user, I certainly won't be > shelling out another $200 for the Intakt skin and shovelware loops from > ancient libraries. > > Anyway, the NI folks always turn out good stuff (I use Kontakt daily for > sound design chores, and I love it), and I'm sure Intakt will be no > exception. > > To clear things up, however: We had NOTHING whatsoever to do with Intakt > (well, I mean, obviously we seem to have influenced them quite a bit, and I'm > bumming about that NFR I sent to one of their developers (haha) but other > than that... a loop slicing VSTi is just a 'good idea' and I'm sure we'll see > more from other vendors... Mixman have just announced a mixman VSTi, too and > my friends over at www.devine-machine.com are deep in the process of porting > their amazing toy to VSTi) > > As for our own plans... 'no comment' icon_smile.gif > > Best, > Art
2003-01-30 by Hendrik Jan Veenstra
On a fine day, 30-01-2003, Matt McKenzie-Smith wrote: >This rant may well be getting out of hand. At least it reminds me again of one of the reasons I don't charge money for my software: no obligations, no complaining customers. Sometimes I'm wiser than I'd thought myself :-). -- Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@...> Omega Art: http://www.omega-art.com