working in the music industry

[Augusto Pinoche]

>From: "Curtin, Steven D (Steven)" <sdcurtin at lucent.com>

>Opcode 1987-89  Patch editors part time during grad school
>Passport 1990-1992   Mac sound editor programmer - AudioTrax, Alchemy
>Studer EdiTech 1992-1993   Mac and embedded systems for Dyaxis II
>Ensoniq 1993-1996  Advanced Product R&D, tuning support for MR series
>Lucent Technologies 1997-  PC Audio, satellite radio
>My current goal is to have the same job for five years in a row.

Ok, i got it.
Was Bobb Yannes in the company until the final end?

>The people working on the ASR had been working on it for many years. >It 
>was developed from 1991 until 1997.  Its history goes back to the >EPS 
>which was started in 1986 or so.  The ASR-X is a repackaging of >the ASR 
>into a desktop
>box with drum pads.

That was a completely different description of the ASR-X
development then was told from the developer him self??
Nevermind.

>I haven't followed it.   Jon is a brilliant guy, he also wrote a very 
> >famous article in JAES about overflow accumulation in filters, and 
> >taught a great course in DSP while at Ensoniq.  He was responsible >for a 
>lot of the DSP technology developed at Ensoniq.  I wish him >well.

And for his efforts the company sued him, i just dont get that part,
im sorry, to me it just sound strange to have to settling an issue
in a court rom.

> > 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!!

>The music industry is a strange creature, since most of the people >who 
>work in it are not motivated by money, but by the love of >building 
>instruments, and many (such as myself) do not have formal >Engineering 
>degrees.  There is a lot of "if we build it they will >come" mentality 
>which is what passes for a business plan.  Ensoniq >happens to be the most 
>currently visible
>casuality, there are many others.

Its a strange creature yes but as far i have heard from developers
a lot of what they say is "it has to sell well" or  "we dont do it
if it dont sell".etc etc... Yepp its a strange creature.

>Yes, that was a potentially cool product but was too little too late. >It 
>used the transwave synthesis technology I was working with in R&D.

I bought the ESQ1 since the day Ensoniq released the box
later I sold it and two years later i bought it back,
and in year 2000 i still have it and use it, today i
think i do some hack in to the device and upgrade it
to a SQ80 OS. Still i think that Ensoniq made several
crap instruments like the VFX, EPS and some other,
terrible keyboards, push buttoms that popped out of the
panel, unstable OS etc. The Fizmo "was interesting until
i tried it and noticed its wery slow envelope times,
then i was totally unintrested of the device.

> > 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!
> >
>As The Proteus mentioned, it's a very complicated situation, with >lots of 
>hurt feelings all around.

Hurt felings is mostly created by bad management.

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

>I'd much rather see this thread fade away and get back to talking >about 
>the new synthesizers that we're all building, thank you very >much.

Did you notice the smiley at the end of the sentence Steve!

AP
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