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Pinnacle Acquires Steinberg
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 9:16 am
by FORMAT
Hi all,
so now "the other" German sequencer has been taken over as well, by Pinnacle, who are mainly concentrating on the PC market...
Find more info here:
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/aboutus/News ... angue_ID=2
Steinberg says that they will continue to support the Mac... Though my guess is: Only for the time being....
Here's their statement:
This is an official communication from Steinberg Media Technologies AG regarding its acquisition by Pinnacle Systems, Inc. In this statement, we would like to answer some of the expected questions about the future of Steinberg products. You can find the text of the press release concerning the acquisition on
www.steinberg.net.
How will Steinberg's product strategy develop in the future?
Steinberg will continue to develop its product portfolio in the future.
Will products or product groups be discontinued?
No, this is not planned.
Will all platforms, for example Macintosh, continue to be supported?
Yes, Steinberg will continue to support all platforms.
Your Steinberg Team
Best,
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Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 9:23 am
by Mbazzy
Well, there we're set again for a new round of speculations ...
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 4:54 pm
by Ron Jeremy
If Ableton is aquired by anyone I hope it is Apple...and not Pinnacle...grrrr
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 7:19 pm
by Geraldo
If Ableton is aquired by anyone I hope it is Apple...and not Pinnacle...grrrr
Then we can lose VST support and wait for AU's with all the cheerful Logic users.
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 8:19 pm
by FORMAT
Is is safe to assume that they will abandon the MAC eventually? I'm not so sure as their communication says otherwise.... I guess wé'll see and anyway, I'm not affected THIS TIME
fpr,-----aaat
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 10:02 pm
by Geraldo
I don't care either, I'll never buy Cubase as long as Live keeps improving. Maybe I'll get DP if the X version kicks butt. I just want my TC works reverb to show up in my VST folder!
motu
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 10:37 pm
by astromass
motu will never see ONE RED PENNY of mine...ever.
i hope MOTU gets bought out byfriggin burger king.
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 10:42 pm
by stubby
what do yall think about Sonar?
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 11:59 pm
by FORMAT
astromass,
why do you despise motu so much?
stubby,
sonar.... NEVER!
regards,
fromage
motu
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 4:31 am
by astromass
hi. motu has consistantly pissed me off due to lack of decent support and a SNOTTY attitude..
they even told me to "look elsewhere" for a platform to work with in osX.
when i founf LIVE i decided that 1.5 and reason 2.0 is all i need.
i'd still like to get a desktop wintel box to run audiomulch...heheehe.
+
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 1:02 pm
by FORMAT
but isn't Motu THe one flawlessly working audio card solution, e.g. for TiBooks??? I was told so.... Plug it in and it works (the 828)
form.aat
hrmm
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 1:24 pm
by astromass
the 828 just had it's drivers released this past monday..dunno if it works...guess i'll never find out! ha!
the 828 looks tempting, but my edirol is kicking butt now.
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 5:11 pm
by os
FORMAT wrote:but isn't Motu THe one flawlessly working audio card solution, e.g. for TiBooks??? I was told so.... Plug it in and it works (the 828)
My Metric Halo Mobile I/O works fine with my TiBook...
I know someone who's had some crashes with his 828, though he seems to like it well enough.
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2002 12:13 am
by ekuehnl
Steinberg says that they will continue to support the Mac... Though my guess is: Only for the time being....
Actually, my company sells Pinnacle products. Our turnkey systems are almost exclusively on Apple computers. (Aside from Avid Symphony which has nothing to do with Pinnacle...) Pinnnacle is firmly established as a hardware front end for Final Cut Pro. I don't see them moving away from the Mac any time soon.
-eric