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Apple acquires Italian audio software company Redmatica?
Apple acquires Italian audio software company Redmatica?
https://9to5mac.com/2012/05/30/apple-acquires-italian-audio-software-company-redmatica/Things that make you hmmmm.
So is Logic Pro about to get a boostBut the deal isn’t close yet. It does look like Apple is shopping for Pro Apps toys though.
Redmatica site
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Or they could cannibalize it, fold some of its functionality into Logic, then EOL it.
This seems very possible give Apple’s history.
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[Clint Wardlow] “Or they could cannibalize it, fold some of its functionality into Logic, then EOL it.
This seems very possible give Apple’s history.”
Certainly possible but not a bad thing given the potential improvements . . .assuming they take away a lot. Very little of Shake (Optical Flow . . . ) wound up in the Pro Apps.
Either way, Apple looks like they’re trying to improve the feature set of their Pro products.
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There are some theories that they have tech that will help with Siri
Steve Connor
“The ripple command is just a workaround for not having a magnetic timelinel”
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[Steve Connor] “There are some theories that they have tech that will help with Siri”
It would be ironic if Apple just wanted to use the sample level editing for Siri.
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[Steve Connor] ” …they have tech that will help with Siri”
Quote from Macrumors:
Redmatica is basically a giant database management tool for organising audio samples …for sorting and indexing massive amounts of audio samples. -
[Paul Dickin] “Redmatica is basically a giant database management tool for organising audio samples”
Hm… Database management… one application springs to mind. Paired with the information sessions around NAB where Apple promised to look into and deliver audio goodness for fcpx- well, that database management for audio samples might come handy. I wonder what Redmatica brings that fcpx lacks in this departement? Does anyone here have more insight? If Redmatica is intended for fcpx (if Apple is indeed acquiring the company) I’m more than curious to find out what that means for fcpx audio capabilities (God knows it needs a lot in that departement).
Erik Lundberg
Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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They have more than just sample management software. See link I posted. Sampling and Instrument building complete with Audio Unit support including Logic 8 and 9.
Depending on where they’re going with it, it looks like this would be part of Logic Pro X and the database sample management part of the whole metadata management scheme.See KeyMap Pro
https://www.redmatica.com/Redmatica/Keymap_Pro.html
and Auto Sampler
https://www.redmatica.com/Redmatica/AutoSampler.htmlOn the management side
ProManager for sample management amongst other things
https://www.redmatica.com/Redmatica/ProManager.html
GBSamplerManager for GarageBand and iPhone
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Based on my twenty or so years experience with Apple, they are the very soul of irony.
Tim
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[TImothy Auld] “Based on my twenty or so years experience with Apple, they are the very soul of irony.”
Speaking of irony, I’ll add that all the Pro Apps that were purchased have been killed . . . .except one. Logic.
It may well be that they’re building from the ground up and decided they could buy some missing pieces. That may mean that Logic X will be completely new (and the name carries on like FCPX) and Redmatica is going to be cannibalized and discarded. If you look at the company’s worth, they’re tiny, It’s Tim Cook’s lunch money. They get to add a small number of experienced developers to the Logic team as well. It may well be like Adobe buying Automatic Duck.
I do think it’ll be good for Apple and Pro Audio if it happens. Even if it’s all rolled into Logic X (and we can round trip to it).
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Whether for Logic or FCPX it’s reassuring to see Apple focused on growing and enhancing their pro apps.
While others have their doubts, I don’t doubt that Apple sees their pro apps as not only pro but the future of pro.
They’ve got the money, the vision and they’re vested.
Again, it’s reassuring.
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