[sdiy] Wavemakers site update
David G. Dixon
dixon at interchange.ubc.ca
Tue Jan 11 05:43:18 CET 2011
> That article mentions several times Dr. Kincaid's lack of marketing skill,
> but clearly from the text even with the assistance of a skilled marketing
> professional & NAMM veteran, the synths did not sell, so maybe that wasn't
> really his problem. The problem was perhaps as the article also suggests,
> that keyboards with presets were more in vogue at the time than modular
> synths.
>
> Perhaps the article should be revised to eliminate that contradictory
> criticism of the man? Even if true, it appears to have had no bearing on
> the market response, at least according to the text as I read it.
It would appear that he was either 10 years behind or 20 years ahead of his
time, as his stuff is beautiful and would no doubt sell like hotcakes today.
It looks like the kind of stuff that Hans Zimmer would devote a wall to.
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