| Re: In the meantime: PARIS to REAPER via OMF [message #102882 is a reply to message #102875] |
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John [1]
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Here is the story
I also have an insider perspective, I believe the truth is Creative bought
Ensoniq for their sound cards. They didn't care all that much about the
rest of there products and they already owned EMU, so they handed EMU the
Ensoniq line. The people in charge of EMU saw Ensoniq products as the competition,
they thought Ensoniq products were inferior to EMU products and in their
arrogance they wanted to kill everything Ensoniq. Scott Emmerman was in
charge, he made the decision, HE wanted to kill Ensoniq, and he did. The
problem was they were suppose to recoup some of the investment, and they
were sitting on a ton of Ensoniq product, especially Paris. They wanted
to keep on cashing in with Paris. In order to Keep on selling Paris they
had to get people to think they were going to move forward with PARIS.
They never wanted to spend money on Paris, they just wanted to make a quick
buck. When they got in the shipments of Paris hardware it was in pieces,
they found that a bunch of it had not been painted yet, so they came up with
the idea of Painting the hardware EMU blue. It became all part of the scam
to make everyone think that they were serious about Paris, The truth is,
the plan from day one was to liquidate the inventory. They also changed
their name to EMU/Ensoniq to make people think they were serious. They told
people that they were working on new hardware, I never saw anything. They
even lied in press releases about capabilities to sell more Paris product.
There were modules that Ensoniq was working on, but I have my doubts that
EMU ever really had anything new under development. Here is a press release
that we now know has falsehoods in it about development and support for third
party motorized control surfaces. http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM01/article/EMU_ENSONIQ/ PARIS-Pro.html
The EMU guys despised Ensoniq products and said so, notice that they never
put the Ensoniq name on any other product? Once the product was gone, Ensoniq
was gone. They changed their name back to EMU. When they got rid of enough
of the Paris inventory, they were done signing contracts with ID. They blew
out the last of the inventory. The End
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