<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 20.01.2012, at 16:38, punkdISCO wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Btw, I love Waldorf. Waldorf are what Access could have been if they had<br>balls to develop more than one product in the last 1.5 decades!! Saying<br>this, Access have always been a strong company and Waldorf are flaky to say<br>the least, so perhaps the Access model is better: "its hard to trip over if<br>you are standing still"..</span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>Waldorf is creativity, weirdness, catering to the users, doing strange things to make their synths more unique, sometimes not looking at complexity and cost.</div><div><br></div><div>Access had one great idea, and too much greed. So the CEO Christoph Kemper is constantly getting rid of his allys, first the original Virus guy, then everyone else including their distribution to get all the money into one pocket. Thus the move to bring out the new modeling amp last year as a "Kemper" product, not "Access".</div><div><br></div><div>This is not based on any inside knowledge, just my opinion about what I see happening...</div><div><br></div><div>Kai</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>