[sdiy] ot: is it true that Waldorf crashed?

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On Thursday 19 February 2004 17:37, Grant Richter wrote:
> In the millions of US$.

I think they barely scratched the "s" after your million.

> It was the Q that killed them.

No, and they're not officially dead yet. Things don't look good, but 
there is still a slim chance that Waldorf continues to exist. The state 
they're in right now is comparable to Chapter 11 in the U.S.

> When they went to purely digital instruments, the software
> development costs, couple with the uncertainty of a software oriented
> methodology, over extended the whole company.

>From what I've seen, this wasn't the problem that got them on the slide.

On Thursday 19 February 2004 19:12, Brandon Daniel wrote:
> Nah, the AFB16 is likely nothing more than an attempt to reuse the
> filterboard from the Q+, which is probably the development that sunk
> the ship.

I can not conclusively prove it, but the succession of some things 
indicates that it was the other way around: the Q+ was a way to move 
some of the filter boards designed for the AFB16 whose interface to the 
PC/Mac took way longer than anybody had expected.


Achim.
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