What music software company would you buy?

[Tj Shredder]

For newcomers to this thread, the idea is to think of music software companies that could be bought to be improved in some way.

Did this ever happen in history? In the end its about products and creativity. If its not already in the company, money cannot buy it. If you think ideas are enough to push a company forward, you most likely just push the creative people out of their own creative flow. Though they probably like it, because they are paid and don‘t have to deal with the business part...
If you really want to push an existing company forward, you support them with your money and don‘t take over...

[VariKusBrainZ]

Angry Red Planet and get them to finish Temper.
Though i believe the Dev claims to have lost the code.

Could have been a truly great sequencer that would have been up there with Bitwig in terms of creativity.

A very cool and useful sequencer in its current state.

Its midi pipeline, modular modulation system and pianoroll tools are unique in the VST world.

It was heavily inspired by Bars & Pipes and developed on BeOS as Sequiter before being redeveloped for Windows.

[SparkySpark]

Why Crysonic?

So you dont think Crysinic could be improved in some way?

I didnt realise this was a serious thread and you all intend to carry out your takover plans

Serious? Well not more serious than a discussion like What could happen if you cross a Rolls with a Fiat... or perhaps a bit more serious than that. I think that perhaps ideas may come up that the devs could actually have use for.

And no, having no money anyway, I will not buy a music software company.

[Tj Shredder]

Angry Red Planet and get them to finish Temper.
Though i believe the Dev claims to have lost the code.

Lost code is not a problem, especially if the design is years old. Even if you had the code, you would rewrite it from sratch...

[SparkySpark]

I'd buy Aly James Lab and hire someone to work full time on x64 versions of his plugins so they can be released before x128 is the norm

...and why not HG Fortune's 32 bit synths as well, to carry on the torch.

[SparkySpark]

Angry Red Planet and get them to finish Temper.
Though i believe the Dev claims to have lost the code.

Lost code is not a problem, especially if the design is years old. Even if you had the code, you would rewrite it from sratch...

Agreed. We programmers tend to rewrite our code too many times anyway...

[SparkySpark]

Oh - and I am shocked Sibelius or the Finale guys haven't acquired StaffPad yet. What a gem!

[ghettosynth]

Angry Red Planet and get them to finish Temper.
Though i believe the Dev claims to have lost the code.

I've "lost" code before. Back in prehistoric times before there was any sensible and relatively easy way to make reliable backups I had a hard drive fail at that magic moment. It was my own fault for just leaving the hard drive sitting in the bottom of the computer on edge. I kicked the computer, the drive fell over, and that was the end of a very large module that I had been working on a major update for the prior week or so. I checked all of my backups, (on floppies), but none of the ones with sufficiently recent source could be read. I was able to save the object file from the dying hard drive so I continued on without that source for about six months before the project sort of reached the end of its life. I should have just rewrote the module right then and there, but I couldn't find the will to get it done.

[e@rs]

I would buy FabFilter and keep their future plugins only for myself.




But don't worry, I'll share HD screenshots on KVR...

[SparkySpark]

I would buy FabFilter and keep their future plugins only for myself.




But don't worry, I'll share HD screenshots on KVR...

[Pytchblend]

I'd buy xoxos and have him continue to make new plugins.

[vurt]

gibson, then i would own all the software!!!!

[SparkySpark]

I'd buy xoxos and have him continue to make new plugins.

Agreed! In honour of him, I actually developed a computer game once where the player was an astronaut from the planet Xoxos Haven't heard that name for a long time now though...

[SparkySpark]

Did this ever happen in history?

Of course, in all business categories. Looking at companies to acquire or work with and for people to hire was one of my main responsibilities in our music software company.

For example, I interviewed one of the contestants for this year's developer challenge.

...and when we disappeared, other companies took over our coders.

I'd say a reason why there are so many individual devs at KVR is that some of them want to be "discovered" and hired. For us musicians, it's a great thing!

[vurt]

I'd buy xoxos and have him continue to make new plugins.

i think "buying a person" is frowned upon in most places nowadays.
except the dark web maybe...