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Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:34 am

Oh my. This is sad indeed.

I do hope Andy gets picked up by another company for support.
The legend that he is

pheeleep · Post by **pheeleep** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:36 am

Another downer is that the extra sound librairies that were being sold are linked to our account once purchased, so we are stuck with whatever extra librairies we bought up until now and can no longer expand our Alchemy sound collection if we wish to do so.

I think a blowout sale of the Alchemy sound librairies would have been nice before removing them from sale, or even a heads up that the librairies would soon no longer be available, so that those of us who wished to complete some of our library collection still had the ability to do so...

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:38 am

Yeah, I wanted to get Guitar Mutations, Iceland, Ian Boddy's library at some point...

Why, CA, WHY?!

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:42 am

The fat lady has yet to sing. Patience, based on a good track record, is called for.
Many people encounter a hardship that forces their hand in the short run, and respond well, in the long run. I'll put my ticket on that horse. Alchemy has some audio import options, so it will never be maxed out.

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:45 am

at least until windows 11

camsr · Post by **camsr** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:46 am

Maybe they got a job programming tax software?

Ben H · Post by **Ben H** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:47 am

I'm really upset to read this news.

Alchemy is already pretty awesome, as-is.
V2 would have been something truly amazing.

TonyVegas · Post by **TonyVegas** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:49 am

camsr wrote:Maybe they got a job programming tax software?

VAT Compressor 2015?

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:01 am

Brutal! With a grain of truth

cowby · Post by **cowby** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:06 am

I am starting to worry about Spectronics .... No release for a long time ago. How can they maintain the business.

toby · Post by **toby** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:12 am

Definitely a shame if this is the case as I, like many around here, have been highly anticipating Alchemy 2.

Just a dream but maybe they teamed up with Spectrasonics and Alchemy 2 will be transformed into the mighty Omnisphere 2.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:17 am

toby wrote:
Just a dream but maybe they teamed up with Spectrasonics and Alchemy 2 will be transformed into the mighty Omnisphere 2.

Best speculation in this thread so far

But I have confidential info that CA is now porting their technology to Espresso machines with additive coffee resynthesis, wait for NAMM!

loachm · Post by **loachm** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:18 am

...sad news to hear, as I was also looking forward to Alchemy 2. Never really dealt with Alchemy, but I always strongly felt I should, and reading about Alchemy 2 last year made me think it might be a good chance to get into it. On the other hand, for me, these news have some sort of irony - just recently I saw a video of Urs Heckmann saying if they were ever getting into doing something with samples they should probably collaborate with Camel Audio because of their expertise in that area. Could this have a happy ending?

(yup, that's wild speculation...

)

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:19 am

Strangely, there is no info about this on the CA facebook page.

Ben H · Post by **Ben H** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:19 am

Maybe they lost all the code?

It HAS happened before with other software companies.

Camel Audio ceasing sales? [Update: CA acquired by Apple]