Back When Synths Were Beautiful

[Paul Maddox]

Niall,

> Perhaps they don't own that code?  I've always wondered why
> they didn't produce a final update for the Microwave 2/XT
> series.

>From what I understand they own the code and don't want people to buy
their old products, only their new ones (I guess that makes sense from
a business angle).

>  It's like 95, 97% done, and people have expressed a
> willingness to pay for those last few bugs to be squashed.
> IIRC, the only notable ones now, IIRC, were related to
> aftertouch and clock sync for the arp.

I also think that now, they are a smaller company and wish to focus on
getting their current product as complete as possible, rather than
bug-fixing old code.
It may also be that they no longer employ the guy(s) who worked on the
original code and it would be a lot harder for them to work on the
code.

Who knows, ultimately they have refused to pass any information to my
friend and he's doing what he can. He's also been told that is *NOT*
allowed to sell or distribute his OS if it contains any of their
original code.

Sounds like the bean counters are well and truly in charge of Waldorf IMHO.

Paul