KVR Audio

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 7:21 pm

himalaya wrote:What compelled someone to name their company 'Chicken Systems'? They make a sample converter/mapper program.

+1 That is a horrible name

funky lime · Post by **funky lime** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 7:30 pm

norCtrack. I guess I just don't get it?

Heavyocity. It sounds contrived.

XILS-lab. Maybe they were going for "exiles" but I just read it as "Zills"

Slate Digital. Maybe I just don't like the guy's marketing or whatever, but it sounds a bit self-important.

Best Service. What?

Zynaptiq. "I'm 14 and this is edgy."

GetGood Drums. The name makes me think of every toxic online gaming community ever.

Russell Grand · Post by **Russell Grand** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 7:38 pm

funky lime wrote: Slate Digital. Maybe I just don't like the guy's marketing or whatever, but it sounds a bit self-important.

That describes Mr. Slate himself to a T.

funky lime · Post by **funky lime** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 8:14 pm

Russell Grand wrote:
funky lime wrote: Slate Digital. Maybe I just don't like the guy's marketing or whatever, but it sounds a bit self-important.
That describes Mr. Slate himself to a T.

I kinda picked up that vibe, but perhaps his plugins are good enough to justify it? I wouldn't know. I saw him on Pensado's Place and he didn't seem nearly as arrogant as his marketing might suggest.

My favorite example of tastefully incorporating one's own name into the company brand is McDSP (McDowell Signal Processing). It does make me think of McDonald's (my mom always called it McD's), but in spite of that, I think it's a particularly clever name.

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 10:55 pm

Most of the made-up-word names I see here on a regular basis, actually... I suspect that a lot of non-native-English developers don't grasp the oddness of their company names to native English speakers in the English speaking markets. It's not their fault, but a lot of these names are poor from this perspective.

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:07 am

Cakewalk. It's the company that is anything but what it implies.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:14 am

incubus wrote:Cakewalk. It's the company that is anything but what it implies.

IIRC, Cakewalk started life as "12 Tone Systems" and Cakewalk was just the name of their original DOS based midi sequencer product. The name fit back then TBH, it worked well, was easy to use, and if you had an MPU-401 card, the timing was really tight.

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:19 am

I don't care how good it was in 1969

Rappo Clappo · Post by **Rappo Clappo** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 7:15 am

Jace-BeOS wrote:Most of the made-up-word names I see here on a regular basis, actually... I suspect that a lot of non-native-English developers don't grasp the oddness of their company names to native English speakers in the English speaking markets. It's not their fault, but a lot of these names are poor from this perspective.

Yeah, Betawig comes to mind.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 7:53 am

incubus wrote:I don't care how good it was in 1969

Hard to believe, but I'm talking about the early to mid 90s. Windows 3.1 came out in 1992, Windows 95, obviously, in 1995. People were still running time critical systems on DOS in those days. You could still boot into DOS and start Win95 from the DOS prompt.

Also hard to believe, that was some 25 years ago. Time flies when you're getting old I guess.

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:34 am

+1 for Dead Duck Software. Nice plugins and sweet guy behind the project, but the company name...

Maybe change it to Fried Duck Audio?

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:40 am

Donald Duck Audio

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:44 am

They could partner with QuikQuak

sfxsound3 · Post by **sfxsound3** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 11:26 am

Aloysius wrote:They could partner with QuikQuak

And make a threesome with Fruity Loops! Wanna gif that for you?

ENV1 · Post by **ENV1** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:53 pm

Russell Grand wrote:
ENV1 wrote:The guy who named his outlet 'Bullshit Audio' probably wins this one.
I forgot about that one! Good call!

And he was quite serious about it too.

Strangely he was never heard from much again...

On a more funny note: A few weeks ago there was this advertisement or something in the sidebar from an outlet named 'DailyBeats'. Nothing strange in the english language, however, if you take that and translate it to german you get 'tägliche Schläge', which a german speaking person would interpret to mean 'daily beatings'. (Spank, spank.)

I found that quite hilarious.

And there is a lot more like that. Many outlet names (and product names too) work fine in english, but when you translate them to german its becoming pure comedy. Ask any german how 'Süchtigmachende Trommeln' sounds to them. Or 'Schlagschachtel'.

Of course you find that everywhere, not only in the audio realm.

The most horrible plugin company names?