working in the music industry

[Augusto Pinoche]

>steve curtin wrote:

>Some background on these items...
>
> > Some years ago those issues was up again and there
> > was someone who was tierd of being hired and fired
> > every two months, he was working for Ensoniq writing
> > software for the Ensoniq keyboards,
> > if i can recall this right.
> >
>This was me.  It was actually more like every three years.   All the MI 
> >places I've ever worked (including Opcode) are either defunkt or in much 
>smaller spaces.  Working for Lucent seems to have paid off, when my project 
>gets cancelled I can just find work in another part of Lucent.

So you say that you was employed and fired, emploed and
fired and employed and finaley fired again??
Now that is strange behaviour by the management!!

> > Another case is the dude who did the ASR-X
> > machine for Ensoniq and suddenly was fierd for as
> > it seams to no reason at all, whit some other 20
> > dudes of the engineering department!
> >
>Yes, there were two big layoffs, I was part of the first one.  The second 
>one took out the rest of the music engineers from what I hear.

Quite strange behavior (again) from the management i must say,
first they fired you, then they employed this dude who
made the ASR and then some months later they fired him too!!!
Maybe there is a natural explenation! ;-)!

> > And the last thing i heard about Ensoniq was the DSP
> > engineer who made the signal synthesis algos for ensoniqs
> > effect boxes was sued by Ensoniq for some paper that was
> > published!!
> >
>The was Jon Dattorro.  There was a case for his supposedly publishing
>algorithms that were considered by Ensoniq to be trade secrets.

Yepp thats right!
So who lost the issue, Ensoniq or Dattoro?

> > In some ways it seams that Ensoniq is no good employer!
> >
>Ensoniq is a great company and it was a pleasure to work for them.  >The 
>top management has had to make some tough decisions to keep the >whole 
>company going at all.

Interesting,If the top management had to do some tought decisions
just to keep the company going then there is usually a bad management
that is my experience from both startuppers and usuall long timers.
In 95% of the cases a company going bad is by bad decisions
made by the managenet. Besides it "was" a great company!!

Still its interesting to see that Ensoniq made a keyboard
called Fizmo quite late since they seamed to have fired
the enginers allready?

>They are no longer making music equipment, they were bought by >Creative 
>and now all of the "Ensoniq" equipment is being made by >E-Mu, according to 
>a recent article in Electronic Musician.

Its little strange then to know that Emu is looking for
people when Ensoniq fierd the entire enginering department!
Would be wery easy for Emu/Creative to just call the
fired Ensoniq people up!

> > Has the Music industry been taken over by the
> > economist in suits as the telecom and internet
> > field has been?
> >
>The reason for this is more of a basic sea change in the industry, of >the 
>electronic music capabilities creeping out of the special-purpose 
> >keyboards  and into general purpose PCs.  Notice how much enphasis is 
> >placed in Keyboard magazine on plugins for editing programs now.  For 
>this reason
>Ensoniq is now Creative East, a multimedia company.

Yes thats a part of the truth, and using the PC whit BillGates crapware 
dosent improwe the musicans situation alot!

Another interesting issue is how badly runed Eventide is,
no one at the stering weel for the audio dev department
after Orvilles death as the gossips are saying!

Doesent you folks just love gossips, particulare
when there is some real stuff into them!!  >;->

AP
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