The plot thickens...

Ben  wrote on 5/17/2003, 10:04 AM
It must be the month of corporate take-overs of audio software companies. Syntrillium, who make Cool Edit Pro, has just been bought by Adobe:

http://www.syntrillium.com/news/article.html?91

My initial thoughts on this are that it could be a case of Adobe's Premiere running scared from Vegas. I'm an audio-only Vegas user, but from what I hear, Vegas really kicks Premiere's ass on the video side, and the audio on Premiere is extremely basic. So my guess would be that Adobe want to bring their audio up to speed with Vegas. Little do they know that the toy that is Cool Edit 'Pro' ain't really the way to go...

Ben

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seeker wrote on 5/17/2003, 11:21 AM
Ben,

"Little do they know that the toy that is Cool Edit 'Pro' ain't really the way to go..."

As I recall, Photoshop was pretty much a "toy" when Adobe first acquired it. For it's price, Cool Edit is a pretty good deal. If you can't afford Noise Reduction 2, (and a lot of hobbyists can't) Syntrillium offers an affordable alternative. There is at least one third party book on Cool Edit on the shelves now, and if Adobe now owns Cool Edit, you can expect to see more to come. Flooding the bookshelves with many different Photoshop books was a key part of Adobe's strategy for making Photoshop predominant. It would be good if Sony gave Vegas such a boost.

-- Seeker --
billybk wrote on 5/17/2003, 11:39 AM
Let's see if I get this right. In the past year:

Emagic audio software bought out by: Apple
Steinberg audio software bought out by: Pinnacle
Sonic Foundry audio software bought out by: Sony
Syntrillium audio software bought out by: Adobe

What's left of the major independent Windows audio sequencers:

Cakewalk audio software bought out by.......... Microsoft?
I would not be, at all, surprised.




Billy Buck
Ben  wrote on 5/17/2003, 11:42 AM
Damn right Billy; it's all bit sad isn't it?

Seeker, I know what you mean with regard to CEP, but my point was that it doesn't even touch Vegas and, by comparison, is somewhat of a toy. Certainly looks like one, though once Adobe get their hands on it I'm sure they'll give it that lovely antiquated 'mac' look they seem to love so much.

Ben
stusy wrote on 5/17/2003, 7:55 PM
You think that's somethin, you should check out the Nashville publishing scene, or the recording scene in general...all this merging goin on who the hell knows anything anymore, much less where to submit music...there's alot of books and mags out there, but they're obsolete the moment they come out, except Billboard I spose...
Ben  wrote on 5/17/2003, 9:03 PM
Lol. Yet another pointless post from our friend stusy that makes no sense whatsoever. He takes 'stream of consciousness' to a new level.

B
stakeoutstudios wrote on 5/18/2003, 6:20 AM
The words are english, yet the sentences make no sense.

It's a wonder he manages to even log on here.
stusy wrote on 5/18/2003, 7:25 AM
You go guys...!
zemlin wrote on 5/18/2003, 4:25 PM
I don't want to (and won't) get into a "my app can beat up your app" debate here - I'm sure much of any opinion is what you're used to. I use Vegas for tracking - that's about it. I use CEP for all my mixing work. Vegas certainly has some advantages to CEP in this area, but find the CEP mixing/editing environment to be far superior to Vegas (except for envelope editing). The quality and flexibility of the native effects is (IMHO) better than Vegas. The few times I have tried working with Vegas I have never been satisfied with the sound quality.

Like I said - this is simply a counterpoint - not opening a debate. Both packages have their strengths - which is why I use both.
Rednroll wrote on 5/19/2003, 12:11 PM
"but they're obsolete the moment they come out, except Billboard I spose..."

LOL!! They are English words, but even a statement like that should show you the brain power behind them. "Billboard", now there's a magazine out of touch with current events and the real music scene and recording industry. If you're into top 40 music only, then you might have something worth reading in Billboard.......I bet Stutsy was crushed when the backstreet boys sales started to decline....."oh no!!! the whole music industry is going down the tubes!!!" LOL....don't bother responding Stutsy, no one will be able to understand what you're trying to say anyways.