Dear Guitar Synth Registered User
It is with great sadness that we write to tell you of the death of Ian Mold, the originator and sole developer of Guitar Synth sold via Lateral Solution Limited. Ian received much support from individual users for Guitar Synth who enjoyed using the product and who offered many suggestions for future developments. Ian had developed an ASIO version in recent months to try and resolve the latency problems many users experienced but was not able to take forward the beta testing of that version as he'd planned as a result of the progression of his illness with cancer.
As his family, we are proud of what Ian achieved with Guitar Synth and it would be fitting to think that Guitar Synth could become a form of "memorial" to him and also for the Guitar Synth community to continue to benefit from the development of Guitar Synth. As Ian himself wrote in a note that is now on the Lateral Solution website:
"I want to say thank you for your encouragement and support while developing Guitar Synth over the last few years. I know that Guitar Synth is not the last word on the subject of software guitar synths but as the first polyphonic system, I hope I have shown what's possible and others can improve on the concept."
We have no technical knowledge to continue this development and so the purpose of this email is to invite any interest from registered users such as yourself who might want to play a role in that future development - through software development or as a contributor to a development group or via some other means. If you are interested, please do reply to this email so that we can circulate details of your interest to other users who are of a similar view. You can then perhaps work out together how you can best collaborate for the benefit of Guitar Synth. A possible starting point for anyone interested in being involved is the beta testing of the ASIO version Ian had developed.
Whilst we are aware of the business potential of Guitar Synth, our priority is to ensure that Ian's original idea continues. As I'm sure you will appreciate, it would have to be clearly understood by anybody involved in the future development of Guitar Synth that we would not be able to offer any technical assistance nor accept any liability for its future use and that we would insist that any development would acknowledge Ian as the originator.
We look forward to hearing from any of you with your thoughts on how best to take forward the development of Guitar Synth.
with best wishes
The Mold family
c/o Lateral Solution Ltd
www.lateralsol.com
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