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AVID Selling M-Audio and Pinnacle Lines!!!
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Re: AVID Selling M-Audio and Pinnicle Lines!!!
Yeah that's kinda mind blowing.
Not really sure what to think of it at this point.
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Re: AVID Selling M-Audio and Pinnicle Lines!!!
Also buried in some of the news about this is that both Kirk Arnold and Jason Burke will be leaving the company. Not sure what brought this about, but Jason has been there for quite a while, through all the ups and downs.
I think selling the divisions will be good in the long run, as they seemed to have a lot of confusing overlap of products. I think the original idea was to have these entry level products get people interested to move up to the professional products, but they never seemed to get that part right. On a selfish note, I'm a little concerned about what will happen to support for my M-Audio Axiom Pro. It's a great keyboard with great Protools integration, and since it won't be part of Avid, I don't know what might change with it. |
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Re: AVID Selling M-Audio and Pinnicle Lines!!!
See this is my biggest concern. I've been looking into the Axiom line for a while, but will it be a pointless venture in the future? I've been a fan of M-Audio keyboards for a long time. I hope this doesn't have any effect on quality or compatibility.
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Re: AVID Selling M-Audio and Pinnicle Lines!!!
If most of the same people who work for M-Audio are transferred to the new company, then hopefully we'll see the same quality and innovation. The company that's buying this division is the parent company of Akai Professional, Alesis, and Numark DJ, which is an interesting mixture. It could be possible that they actually expand the capabilities of these products to work equally well with all brands, because now they don't have a vested interest to "favor" Protools in terms of features/compatibility.
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Re: AVID Selling M-Audio and Pinnicle Lines!!!
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It's also kind of interesting that the parent of Akai would buy M-Audio, since they're more or less direct competitors (although I guess you might be able to say the same about Alesis and Numark). It also speaks volumes as to why we haven't seen a Pro Tools M-Powered version 10. Either way, this is a very interesting development. Hopefully, it will have a positive effect on the development of our favourite DAW.
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IIRC Avid had to curtail M-Audio,s efforts, as they surprised everyone with the profire 2626. They ended up competing with their own products. The Axiom pro is great keyboard with excellent integration. Hope those guys at M-Audio continue to work their magic. |
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Re: AVID Selling M-Audio and Pinnicle Lines!!!
Actually glad to see this. The M-Audio line seemed to just make AVIDs selection that much more confusing, especially with audio interfaces. I'd rather have a smaller amount of choices of better designed products, than 50 products that are all almost identical in functionality and quality.
That, and with apple seeming to focus less and less on the pro market, it's good to see that someone still gives a $#!^ about making products for those of us that make a living at this.
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Re: AVID Selling M-Audio and Pinnicle Lines!!!
It wasn't like that. M-audio was making money every quarter while Avid was losing money every quarter. So Gary basically merged M-Audio into Avid so he could use M-Audio's profits to offset Avid's loses on paper. And at the same time he gutted a lot of the M-Audio employees thinking "hey, an engineer is an engineer. A Tech support person is a tech support person." Which totally made the transition even harder and brought a lot of the M-Audio products to a halt. But they did actually keep the guy who designed the 2626 hardware. I'm not sure if he's still there. But I know he designed some of the new Avid audio interfaces we see now as well as some that haven't been released yet.
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