KVR Audio

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:14 am

Yeah, it's clearly the phones.

But they DO make other things. At some point, the phones aren't going to be as hot selling as they are now and they'll have to rely on their other products. Ignoring them is a bad idea. The tablet is already slowing in sales because of market saturation. Phones are a wee bit more disposable (shameful), and less expensive than tablets, so they're still in high numbers of sales. But perpetual growth is a foolish fantasy.

XFX · Post by **XFX** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:17 am

Starting to see that a number of people are quite upset and angry about all of this lost of support and sudden pulling out of the scene by Camel Audio. Especially when they have the full sound library or much of it.

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:20 am

Now, on the flip side: If I was Apple employee #3141592654, and my job was to try to enhance desire for the next version of Logic, it seems a no-brainer to D/L IOS ports of vsti's onto my ipad, take it, and go down the hall to the marble-lined can and sit on my gold-plated toilet seat in my stall with my name on it, and play around.

Alchemy is certainly going to impress - even if you aren't a computer muso exposed to dozens of new audio softwares every year...

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:30 am

hibidy wrote:Big companies buy up little companies all the time at ridiculous prices. It's about world domination.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:31 am

Some Alchemy Nostalgia which I improvised yesterday live on video:

killa ego · Post by **killa ego** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:37 am

goldenanalog wrote:What the heck - I'm going to play the devil's advocate for a while longer!

3.) Is it possible that CA could have hurt the perceived value of Alc by porting it to IOS? They had one simple version in the Appstore that was literally free!

alchemy player was already free, and it was a pretty damn good free rompler (played all the preset packs they sold.)

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:43 am

killa ego wrote:
goldenanalog wrote:What the heck - I'm going to play the devil's advocate for a while longer!

3.) Is it possible that CA could have hurt the perceived value of Alc by porting it to IOS? They had one simple version in the Appstore that was literally free!
alchemy player was already free, and it was a pretty damn good free rompler (played all the preset packs they sold.)

True - I forgot about that, killa ego - in IOSland, you could buy the whole Alchemy enchilada - which took up 2+ gigs(!) on my ipad Hair, and included a very cool version of the Alchemy soft - for less then 100usd.

killa ego · Post by **killa ego** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:45 am

you're talking all the preset packs for $100? yeah, that would cheapen the product considering they were asking for about $700 for the complete version of alchemy.

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 1:54 am

killa ego wrote:you're talking all the preset packs for $100? yeah, that would cheapen the product considering they were asking for about $700 for the complete version of alchemy.

Well, technically you got a taste of each of the packs - I believe that the size of the complete vsti w/Libraries was what? 20+ gigs? The IOS version was 10 times smaller, but sounded great - especially if you ran your Hair through a decent sound card (I use a Tascam IUR2 that I bought from MF for like $40usd - seen all kinds of crap on the totally reliable internets that says it won't work with Hair - yes it does/OS 8.1.2)

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:04 am

iPad Hair, huh? Okay

Ameyah Audio · Post by **Ameyah Audio** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:12 am

Sampleconstruct wrote:Some Alchemy Nostalgia which I improvised yesterday live on video:

good stuff, i always forgot how good the black skin looks.
what happends with your alchemy soundsets? will they become freeware or what?
incredible work on them, still a bit sad about Alchemy 2 will not gonna happen.

Mojo42 · Post by **Mojo42** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:16 am

Hey, I think Camel jokes are for all, but jokes about autism are for autists only

Here we go:

Voice303 wrote:Do camels ever have autism?

Unlikely, but have you recognized already that apples are suspicious silent? They don`t talk, they don`t like phonecalls, they are doing all day long the same like hanging around in the kitchen or in the cellar, they wear stereotypical green, yellow or red and they even don`t complain if a Camel eats them. This is suspicious. This needs further investigations.

machinesworking · Post by **machinesworking** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:37 am

mandolarian wrote:
machinesworking wrote: Also Ben H pretty much implied in this thread that they did not get bought by
Apple, so it's all good.
So..."Pretty much implied" is the next best thing to the next best thing to the next best thing to being stated as fact? That's only 3 degrees away. Must be true.

Hey you go ahead and worry about Apple buying Camel all you want. No skin off my back, but the only thing you have is rampant speculation. The only bit of evidence we have either way is the owner of the company hinting in this thread it was foolish to think that.
You're basically saying "Prove Bigfoot isn't real!" A logical fallacy.

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:45 am

Jace-BeOS wrote:iPad Hair, huh? Okay

I swear: I have the greatest love and respect for Apple - And no: they don't look at all like another giant clusterf!ck like Mcdonalds, or Walmart...

And I absolutely *love* their most awesomest idea of building a giant space-age a$$ donut in silicone valley...

highkoo · Post by **highkoo** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:58 am

I can see ZPH's office!

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