Yamaha Aquires Steinberg

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Hard to guess. If, like Microsoft, Yamaha would buy a company to stifle
competition and kill a product, then I'd vote bad. But Tascam bought
Gigasampler and has continued it's advancement, Apple bought EMagic and
continued it's advancement (although they killed PC product), and many other
companies have purchased good quality products from companies ripe for the
picking and continued the product line with great effect, so I don't see
anything negative until we have more information, ala Gibson's purchase of
Opcode and the subsequent death of same.

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Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio

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> Bad?
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> My vote goes to bad.
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[Sidhu]

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Yamha and steinberg already have excellent integration in the new v3
releases, using the 'studio manager' architecture. One can now control
the digital yamaha board from within v3. Use yamahas onboard FX and
processing from within v3. And when u launch a project with SX or
nuendo, the board does a complete recall, automatically. not to
mention the sheer ammount of data transfer now that can take place
between the two.

A very intreasting thread here. must read :

http/forum.nuendo.com/forum/Forum3/HTML/006668.html
Id say were in for some exciting times ahead!

Sidhu

 

[Bryson]

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WillStG wrote:

>>tymish@hotmail.com
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>>Fub\nnt. I was just thinking the other day that Yamaha should make a
>>softsynth controller. I ended up with the M-Audio but Yamaha has great
>>action and should hit that market.
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>
> Funny, Avid just bought M-Audio too.
>
>
> Will Miho
> NY Music & TV Audio Guy
> Audio Guy / Fox News
> "The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits
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DigiMan!

 

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>Bryson redbugg@mindNOSPAMspring.com

>DigiMan!

Well it's just I think the chances for a company manipulating or killing
products to advance an market control agenda would be a greater concern with
Digidesign acquiring Midiman/M-Audio than with Yamaha taking over Steinberg.

We shall see.

Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Audio Guy / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

 

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<mwood5nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> http/news.harmony-central.com/News/2004/Yamaha-Acquires-Steinberg.html
> Good news?
> Bad?
> Indifferent?
>
> My vote goes to bad.
>
> later,
> m


I vote 'concerned'. While the situation is very different, I can't help but
think of how the Amiga computer was passed around from company to company
who did little or nothing with it before passing it on, helping in its
demise. Another concern is that using MOTU interfaces on a PC platform with
Cubase has had on going problems ( particularly when using external clock
sources ) and the problem seems to stem from both companies ( hard to tell
though ). I doubt that Yamaha will have much incentive to work these
problems out and make a competitor's hardware a more desirable choice.

On the other hand, Yamaha has deep pockets as others have said and they are
very strong innovators in audio technology. I just hope they don't guide
Steinberg into making software that is too Yamaha centric.

John L Rice
Drummer@ImJohn.com

 

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On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 13:52:04 -0800, "John L Rice" <Drummer@ImJohn.com>
wrote:

>On the other hand, Yamaha has deep pockets as others have said and they are
>very strong innovators in audio technology. I just hope they don't guide
>Steinberg into making software that is too Yamaha centric.

Paying for software that isn't tied to specific hardware has long
been, to put it politely, optional. I'm amazed that any company
can make money at that game.

CubaseFAQ www.laurencepayne.co.uk/CubaseFAQ.htm
"Possibly the world's least impressive web site": George Perfect

 

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On 2004-12-21, mwood5nospam@yahoo.com <mwood5nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> http/news.harmony-central.com/News/2004/Yamaha-Acquires-Steinberg.html
> Good news?
> Bad?
> Indifferent?
>
> My vote goes to bad.

Hey... It was for sale... and YOU didn't buy it.
Yeah, you dindn't have the millions to make that happen.
Whose fault is that?

I'd say it's Yamaha's to kill or nurture, as they choose,
same as it would have been yours had you been the high bidder.

 

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Actually, I just downloaded a Cubase patch ( that's about a week old ) that
is supposed to fix the external word clock problem! I haven't tried it yet
but I'll be thrilled if it works!

John L Rice
Drummer@ImJohn.com

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> <mwood5nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1103664206.031734.28450@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > http/news.harmony-central.com/News/2004/Yamaha-Acquires-Steinberg.html
> > Good news?
> > Bad?
> > Indifferent?
> >
> > My vote goes to bad.
> >
> > later,
> > m
>
>
> I vote 'concerned'. While the situation is very different, I can't help
but
> think of how the Amiga computer was passed around from company to company
> who did little or nothing with it before passing it on, helping in its
> demise. Another concern is that using MOTU interfaces on a PC platform
with
> Cubase has had on going problems ( particularly when using external clock
> sources ) and the problem seems to stem from both companies ( hard to tell
> though ). I doubt that Yamaha will have much incentive to work these
> problems out and make a competitor's hardware a more desirable choice.
>
> On the other hand, Yamaha has deep pockets as others have said and they
are
> very strong innovators in audio technology. I just hope they don't guide
> Steinberg into making software that is too Yamaha centric.
>
> John L Rice
> Drummer@ImJohn.com
>
>