Tons of worship on this board for Trilogy, Atmosphere, and Stylus RMX... yet no mention of Spectrasonics!?!
As far the ones listed in the poll, rgc:Audio all the way... not only is Rene a superb developer, but his support is the best I've ever seen as well.
best audio soft developer in history
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- KVRist
- 100 posts since 24 Jul, 2003
it's not that buzz "could" have been a revolutionary : it SHOULD have been a revolutionary !Buzz could have been a revolutionary, world-wide cross-platform standard that changed the way musicians regard computers, but... it's not.
Because it WAS revolutionary.
And 6 or 7 years later it's still one of the best and simplest music creation tool ever created
VST is useful. But VST is nothing. It is not better than buzz machines or another plugin API. It's just that Steinberg is the biggest audio software company, so their standard becomes the standard. For us, it's quite useful as this means more compatibility.
In another hand, oskari (creator of buzz) apparently made everything to restrict the use of the buzz plugin API to buzz itself.
Now, what is sure, is that genius is never recognized immediately. That's probably why I'm the only one that voted for oskari (even if it seems that he made everything to let buzz die
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- KVRian
- 742 posts since 22 Jun, 2004
Thats because spectrasonics are a sample company not a soft developer..Tons of worship on this board for Trilogy, Atmosphere, and Stylus RMX... yet no mention of Spectrasonics!?!
Paul
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- KVRist
- 197 posts since 12 Nov, 2003
Try telling that to GlennO!Paul_FX wrote:Thats because spectrasonics are a sample company not a soft developer..Tons of worship on this board for Trilogy, Atmosphere, and Stylus RMX... yet no mention of Spectrasonics!?!
Paul
The thread title is best audio software developer. Back in the Metamorphosis, Liquid Grooves, etc.. days, you could say they were a sample company, but with Stylus RMX, you can't say they are not also a world-class software developer as well.
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- KVRAF
- 4749 posts since 15 Jul, 2001 from Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, U.K
actually dont be so shocked,
spectrasonics may very well now be developers but there license transfer policy is not that of 90% of other devs.
afaik they still (try) and charge $50 if you ever decide to sell, this MUST be purely because of the sample content.
[quote="]Thats because spectrasonics are a sample company not a soft developer..
Paul[/quote]
Try telling that to GlennO!
The thread title is best audio software developer. Back in the Metamorphosis, Liquid Grooves, etc.. days, you could say they were a sample company, but with Stylus RMX, you can't say they are not also a world-class software developer as well.[/quote]
spectrasonics may very well now be developers but there license transfer policy is not that of 90% of other devs.
afaik they still (try) and charge $50 if you ever decide to sell, this MUST be purely because of the sample content.
[quote="]Thats because spectrasonics are a sample company not a soft developer..
Paul[/quote]
Try telling that to GlennO!
The thread title is best audio software developer. Back in the Metamorphosis, Liquid Grooves, etc.. days, you could say they were a sample company, but with Stylus RMX, you can't say they are not also a world-class software developer as well.[/quote]
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- KVRist
- 401 posts since 4 May, 2004
AFAIR Steinberg's Pro-16 for C64 was sorta knock off of the 12Tone Cakewalk for then expensive PCs, which was the first commercial sequencer software. Mind you, I was three back then so this is all from smaltalk with some local Atari musos -- they could be wrong.Deed wrote:On the other hands, wasn't steinberg's cubase the first midi sequencer ? And wasn't steinberg involved in the creation of the midi standard itself (shoot me again if i'm wrong again
I actually had Pro-16, got it on a diskette together with 1514 drive I bought from some guy when he went Amiga. Back then it seemed a useless piece of crap (a music program that doesen't produce sound
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- KVRist
- 277 posts since 25 Apr, 2002
Hey! Them's fighting words!Paul_FX wrote:Thats because spectrasonics are a sample company not a soft developer..Tons of worship on this board for Trilogy, Atmosphere, and Stylus RMX... yet no mention of Spectrasonics!?!
Paul
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- KVRAF
- 4143 posts since 7 Sep, 2001 from Melbourne, Australia
Well I did mention GlennO.MikeLeuz wrote:Tons of worship on this board for Trilogy, Atmosphere, and Stylus RMX... yet no mention of Spectrasonics!?!
My experience with him has been as the developer of Crystal but I'm sure his talent is just as well utilised for the Spectrasonics range (now and future).
Caleb
Happiness is the hidden behind the obvious.
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- KVRAF
- 3964 posts since 31 Aug, 2003 from In a foreign town, in a foreign land
I must come across like a fanb0i by now, but I'd like to nominate Ross Bencina.
Groet, Erik
Groet, Erik
Pop music delenda est.
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- u-he
- 30215 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
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- KVRAF
- 1884 posts since 9 Feb, 2004 from Rochester, MN
I think it's more like having men's basketball championships without the "Dream Team": sure they're the big dogs, but everybody hates them anyway, so who cares? 
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- KVRian
- 753 posts since 22 Aug, 2002 from on the inside looking out
I don't - quite the opposite in fact. I couldn't imagine writing tunes without reaktor, absynth, battery, spektral delay or fm7. Only the ohmies do I love more...Warmonger wrote:but everybody hates them anyway, so who cares?
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- AcousticHippie
- 4769 posts since 12 Mar, 2003