Moog sells its business to InMusic

Re:Moog sells its business to InMusic by rjh29 on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @11:52AM (#36420133)

Behringer attracts more attention. Arturia used MI code in the MicroFreak and falsely claimed they had Gillet's blessing, nobody cared. Arturia make VST clones of every popular synth out and charge $500, nobody cares. Behringer makes an affortable version of the Model D because Moog never bothered to and people complain.

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Re:Moog sells its business to InMusic by x3874 on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @12:19PM (#36420517)

Absolutely true, when something concerns B people lose their fucking mind. When people who like an even playing field point out comparable or even same behavior / events done by others? Then it is just 'whataboutism'.

Btw: i hope not just a handful people know the story about Dave Smith fucking over Dave Rossum by one-sidedly deciding to stop payments for E-MUs licensed poly keybed tech:

"But then Sequential Circuits had decided they were no longer going to pay us royalties for the Prophet 5. We called our lawyers, and though we would probably win a lawsuit against them, it would be expensive. The Audity would take several years to produce the kind of revenue we needed for that – could we come up with another product quickly? The Emulator was about to be born."

EMU designed and patented a digitally scanned polyphonic keyboard that was licensed by both Oberheim for the Oberheim 4-Voice and 8-Voice synthesizers and by Sequential Circuits for the Prophet 5.

Source: https://www.amazona.de/interview-dave-rossum-e-mu-part-two-e...

Another thing is that Boog Moog didn't "invent the Theremin or so", he got a foothold by selling (dare to say 'unlicensed'?) kits based on another dudes' invention. Has he ever knowingly paid tribute to Lew Thermen?

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Re:Moog sells its business to InMusic by x3874 on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @02:40PM (#36422555)

* Bob Moog, obviously.

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