KVR Audio

Lunatique · Post by **Lunatique** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:00 pm

I never see or hear people talk about this sequencer anymore, but it was quite big back in the day. The company website looks absolutely dead too. Are they still in business?

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:07 pm

Lunatique wrote:I never see or hear people talk about this sequencer anymore, but it was quite big back in the day. The company website looks absolutely dead too. Are they still in business?

no
some big company bought them and dropped developement.

Yossarian · Post by **Yossarian** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:39 pm

bluedad wrote: some big company bought them and dropped developement.

The company was Gibson, which seems to have attained somewhat of a reputation for botched acquisitions (Opcode, Oberheim, Steinberger guitars and others).

StudioVision was once way ahead of its time in the way it could turn audio into midi data which could be edited and then applied back to the audio.

/Yoss

ls1xxx · Post by **ls1xxx** » Thu May 09, 2019 2:00 pm

Yea that was a good one.

Burillo · Post by **Burillo** » Thu May 09, 2019 2:05 pm

few months short of fifteen years... new record?

jonljacobi · Post by **jonljacobi** » Fri May 10, 2019 5:18 am

Geebs. I'd totally forgotten about this, but it was actually quite a big deal back in the day. Gibson. I think the new guy actually gets it, but man, for a while there, they were a black hole of acquisition.

ls1xxx · Post by **ls1xxx** » Fri May 10, 2019 3:54 pm

From what I've heard this here seems to be a daw like no other! Wish someone would post some videos of it in action.

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Mon May 13, 2019 3:37 pm

I was using it back then as my goto DAW. After it was destroyed by Gibson I just stayed away from sequencers and just used Max/MSP alone. Bitwig brought me back to DAWs not too long ago.
Studio Vision was the first sequencer you could actually play like an instrument. Assigning sequences to letter keys of the computer keyboard. Decades before Live got to their clips. Logic also did that a bit later as well, but it was way too complicated to be useful...

jens · Post by **jens** » Mon May 13, 2019 5:50 pm

Lunatique wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:00 pm Are they still in business?

Nope - they folded in 1999, one year after being sold to Gibson.

Their CEO from '87 until '98 is CEO of some music production related internet board these days... can't remember it's name right now... it's something like... AVR? or AER? dang... my memory is bad - I'm getting old...

Ah, now I have it! It's kvraudio.com

jens · Post by **jens** » Mon May 13, 2019 5:52 pm

Yossarian wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:39 pm
bluedad wrote: some big company bought them and dropped developement.
The company was Gibson, which seems to have attained somewhat of a reputation for botched acquisitions (Opcode, Oberheim, Steinberger guitars and others).

I am so happy about Henry's so hugely deserved downfall! What a prick! Karma got him by the balls big time!

thedreampolice · Post by **thedreampolice** » Mon May 13, 2019 8:33 pm

They also killed Gigastudio and recently Cakewalk.....

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Mon May 13, 2019 8:36 pm

jens wrote: Mon May 13, 2019 5:52 pm
Yossarian wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:39 pm
bluedad wrote: some big company bought them and dropped developement.
The company was Gibson, which seems to have attained somewhat of a reputation for botched acquisitions (Opcode, Oberheim, Steinberger guitars and others).
I am so happy about Henry's so hugely deserved downfall! What a prick! Karma got him by the balls big time!

Amen.
rsp

Dewdman42 · Post by **Dewdman42** » Mon May 13, 2019 9:55 pm

My first midi sequencer with the predecessor to StudioVision, I believe it was called "MidiMac" if memory serves and I used it all the way until StudioVision died, which was a sad day indeed.

Oh well. we have a lot of good choices now...

jonljacobi · Post by **jonljacobi** » Tue May 14, 2019 12:17 am

jens wrote: Mon May 13, 2019 5:52 pm
Yossarian wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:39 pm
bluedad wrote: some big company bought them and dropped developement.
The company was Gibson, which seems to have attained somewhat of a reputation for botched acquisitions (Opcode, Oberheim, Steinberger guitars and others).
I am so happy about Henry's so hugely deserved downfall! What a prick! Karma got him by the balls big time!

Background for this reference?

Benedict · Post by **Benedict** » Tue May 14, 2019 12:28 am

I was a Vision man. I loved it soooo much. First as a MIDI Seq then in the early days of what we now so inelegantly call DAWs.

Yes: Gibson happened. To be fair Opcode were struggling against Cubase & Logic being the darlings of the press and the House kiddies (with Digital Performer too somewhat on the Pro end). With their advanced technologies/workflow (things people thought so clever when Ableton "invented" them) Opcode could have probably fought back. But, from what I got told by an insider, the Gibson guys had no real understanding of how cool coders worked so they insisted they all show up at 9:00 am in neat shirts & ties (that'll make em efficient) and the best people started leaving.

Studio Vision was THEE choice of audio to picture scorers and a lot of top studio types. The broader Vision (then Vision DSP) was like an EMU sampler compared to an Akai. It was a Rolls Royce but only if you were willing to learn how it drove. I ran it until it was no longer efficient. It took until Reason got real legs (2.5) to find a real new home (Energy XT was cool but always in a state of unfinishedness). I still miss the elegance of MIDI and those kooky clip things you could trigger on-demand in key/scale. The Automation was elegant too.

Whatever happend to Studio Vision?