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classic · Post by **classic** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:27 pm

So many people selling it lately.

Please tell me why course I want to have it.

Thank you

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:34 pm

classic wrote:So many people selling it lately.

Please tell me why course I want to have it.

Thank you

Because it was the result of a joint venture between UVI and MOTU, and, although none of the parts clarified, that deal seems to be over, and UVI already launched Falcon, which may be regarded as the successor of Mach Five, up to the point of reading all files created for it.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:37 pm

Searching for Mach in the sales forum, brings up a couple of sales this year

Is that many?

search.php?keywords=mach&fid[0]=43
search.php?keywords=mach5&fid[0]=43

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:40 pm

Numanoid wrote:Searching for Mach in the sales forum, brings up a couple of sales this year

Is that many?

search.php?keywords=mach&fid[0]=43
search.php?keywords=mach5&fid[0]=43

Well.. I don't know how many is many

and I didn't say a word about that.

I just posted what I know about the status quo of Mach Five as of today.

classic · Post by **classic** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:45 pm

Seems to me extremely nice pice of software.
Loades lots of formats, cool limestretch and pitchshifting that other samplers do not have.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:47 pm

classic wrote:Seems to me extremely nice pice of software.
Loades lots of formats, cool limestretch and pitchshifting that other samplers do not have.

So if users are selling it, and you think it is extremely nice, why not just buy it from them.

Do you think that everytime somebody sell their piece of software it is because it is something wrong with it, or the dev is about to be bought be Apple ?

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:49 pm

classic wrote:Seems to me extremely nice pice of software.
Loades lots of formats, cool limestretch and pitchshifting that other samplers do not have.

Yes and all of that plus a ton more is now inside Falcon, the only difference is that M5 converted more foreign formats, Falcon only reads sfz-files.

classic · Post by **classic** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:57 pm

Numanoid wrote:
classic wrote:Seems to me extremely nice pice of software.
Loades lots of formats, cool limestretch and pitchshifting that other samplers do not have.
So if users are selling it, and you think it is extremely nice, why not just buy it from them.

Do you think that everytime somebody sell their piece of software it is because it is something wrong with it, or the dev is about to be bought be Apple ?

No I don't think that
But I prefere asking a may be silly question than buying something that has cool video tuts and smiling marketing people but hidden downs that just user coul tell you about.
Working hard for my money you know

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 6:04 pm

classic wrote: But I prefere asking a may be silly question than buying something that has cool video tuts and smiling marketing people but hidden downs that just user coul tell you about.
Working hard for my money you know

So, I think you have all the information by now:
1. Mach Five is an old version. It is still a cool instrument, with lots of features, but you may consider it abandonware. The only think it has in its favour is the possibily to read several foreign formats:
2. Falcon does everything that Mach Five did, and a lot more. The library it comes with is very small and very electronic oriented. But you receive a vouched from UVI which allows you to buy one more library from them. And they are constantly having sales, so, you can expand your own library quickly, as you need.
3. Falcon is cheaper too - but, as Simon said, the only forign format it can read is SFZ. For the rest you have to find another converter.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 6:15 pm

classic wrote:But I prefere asking a may be silly question than buying something that has cool video tuts and smiling marketing people but hidden downs that just user coul tell you about. Working hard for my money you know

It is of course good to be cautious, but when it comes to MachFive, seems obvious that it is quality from A to Z.

To make an example, the product was first launched 13 years ago, and that can go to show how excellent it is:
http://www.kvraudio.com/news/motu_machf ... ounced_796

To compare, Zebra was launched at the same time, that is still at v2, while MachFive is at v3

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 6:17 pm

fmr wrote:It is still a cool instrument, with lots of features, but you may consider it abandonware.

Abandoware?

It was updated less than 3 years ago: http://www.kvraudio.com/news/motu-updat ... -aax-23756

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 6:22 pm

Numanoid wrote:
fmr wrote:It is still a cool instrument, with lots of features, but you may consider it abandonware.
Abandoware?

It was updated less than 3 years ago: http://www.kvraudio.com/news/motu-updat ... -aax-23756

Yes... by UVI - THREE years ago. But now, UVI launched Falcon, and will no longer work in Mach Five (AFAIK). And since they were the coders...

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 6:30 pm

fmr wrote:Yes... by UVI - THREE years ago. But now, UVI launched Falcon, and will no longer work in Mach Five (AFAIK). And since they were the coders...

But MachFive is MOTU and not UVI ?

What are the relations between them?

To compare: Sylenth1's latest major stable version is v2.2 and that was issued in 2008. Nobody is talking about that as abandoware.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 6:43 pm

Numanoid wrote:
fmr wrote:Yes... by UVI - THREE years ago. But now, UVI launched Falcon, and will no longer work in Mach Five (AFAIK). And since they were the coders...
But MachFive is MOTU and not UVI ?

What are the relations between them?

To compare: Sylenth1's latest major stable version is v2.2 and that was issued in 2008. Nobody is talking about that as abandoware.

MOTU just licensed the UVI software/code, the same developers (Olivier/Remy) as always are now developing Falcon, the deal with MOTU is obviously history.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 6:45 pm

Sampleconstruct wrote:MOTU just licensed the UVI software/code, the same developers (Olivier/Remy) as always are now developing Falcon, the deal with MOTU is obviously history.

But can't MOTU then licence the Falcon software/code for MachFive 4 ?

Whats wrong with Mach5 -3