KVR Audio

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:10 pm

I don't have any inside information but if I had to guess, I would say inMusic is a more likely partner than Apple.

I wish nothing but the best for those guys, I really enjoy their products.

Had I known that they were thinking partnering with another company, I would have suggested that Nektar make an offer.

Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:11 pm

Sampleconstruct wrote:
Neon Breath wrote:
Dasheesh wrote:

This. Same thing that happened to emagic, and a host of other great companies. probably wanted the granular filters and a host of other things C.A. did better. Don't be surprised if Apple tries to copyright granular filtering....
What are granular filters? Do you mean granular synthesis? Not sure to follow you here...
Not to forget the spectral distortion, the delay resynthesis, the analog virtualism and the oscillating envelopes.

Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:11 pm

Ahahaha

ariston · Post by **ariston** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:12 pm

I find it hard to believe Camel Audio would sell out to one of the BIG PLAYERS... they're definitely humanistic in their outlook, and while it may be all about money in the end, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't sell their souls to the highest bidder. Let's just wait and see.

kiezum · Post by **kiezum** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:13 pm

beely wrote: *not* for CA's products themselves.

So what would likely happen is CA's products die, and Ben and maybe some of the others go to work for Apple on various projects, and we never hear from them again.

They bought Emagic for the product Logic.

loachm · Post by **loachm** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:13 pm

...so many speculations, but noone has mentioned Arturia, yet. They seem to be big enough and it would fit into their portfolio (as they're heavily leaning towards analog). Apple would mean big numbers for CA, but also the Cakewalk, Spectrasonics and even Propellerhead scenarios would make sense to me.

(But, God, I really hope, it's not IK!!!!!!!!!!!)

Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:14 pm

ariston wrote:I find it hard to believe Camel Audio would sell out to one of the BIG PLAYERS... they're definitely humanistic in their outlook, and while it may be all about money in the end, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't sell their souls to the highest bidder. Let's just wait and see.

Really? You would be surprised to see what $$$ can do, trust me...

Orbit-50 · Post by **Orbit-50** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:15 pm

Sampleconstruct wrote:...and the oscillating envelopes.

That sounds like a totally wacky mess.

.-.

damoog · Post by **damoog** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:15 pm

Really sorry about this one you lot,I didn't have alchemy or any of their plug ins but it was always on my list,BIG name synth to,I quite shocked and I can't remember any more bigger news in plug in world over 15 years,sad

Surely they must have been bought out by one of the big names

beely · Post by **beely** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:16 pm

kiezum wrote:They bought Emagic for the product Logic.

Yeah, read my post about this above.

People forget that iTunes, Final Cut Pro, Shake->Motion and others all came from buying other companies. They do do this, but emagic was the last *big* purchase in the pro audio space - the Redmatica situation is more typical.

Apple will buy, or try to buy, whatever makes strategic sense, at the end of the day...

For the Camel situation, if would not be for the products, as Apple has no interest in selling audio plugins to a tiny market. It would be for the developer talent and IP for sure.

Mivo · Post by **Mivo** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:16 pm

beely wrote:The money is a benefit, but not necessarily the chief reason.

2,9 billion dollars are not a bad side effect, indeed. I'm sure CA will feed their customers a similar line.

I guess society doesn't really encourage bluntness when it comes to stuff like this. How many people would accept, "Yeah, I wanted the cash, the offer was just too damn good, and that's really all there is to it." I'd respect that (now anyway, probably not twenty years ago), but it's uproar material.

(I'm not claiming that this is the case here. I simply don't know.)

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:20 pm

beely wrote:
Kriminal wrote:
xybre wrote: So yeah, all signs point to a buyout.
what 'signs' ?
All mentioned many times earlier in the thread - have a read through.

A buyout is the only thing that fits the pattern and the data we have.

the data being the text on the CA site (which gives nothing away) and speculation elsewhere

beely · Post by **beely** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:21 pm

Including the rest of my post you missed quoting.

Try reading it again

TheKid · Post by **TheKid** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:24 pm

If it's really Apple: you damn bastards. I'll never forgive and forget what you did to Emagic.
I'll always keep this as a reminder in my bookshelf:

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:28 pm

IF Alchemy2 was that far along that some were creating soundbanks for it, perhaps whatever company waited until the Logic was pretty solid before signing on the dotted line. I could see that occurring. When is Winter NAMM?

I still hope a certain company didn't take a bite out of CA and leave us with the worm. I'd feel almost like run over by a Mac truck headed to the Apple orchard driven by a Camel!

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