Update3: Via sizzlemeister and James of Retro Thing: www.waldorfmusic.de is registered to Joachim Flor, the former sales director for Hartmann. Hartmann designed the hardware look and feel for Waldorf as well as other manufacturer's. According to James, "Axel Hartmann is the interface designer responsible for such remarkable instruments as the Waldorf Wave and the Alesis A6 Andromeda. His list of clients include companies like Access, Alesis, Antares, Creamware, Korg, Line 6, Novation, Steinberg, and Waldorf." Exciting stuff indeed.
Update2: More on electro-music.
Update via the comments (this sounds like it's for real):
"from the waldorf-user-forum:
moreno>> Jurij, where did you see that rumour?
did not seen/read yet anywhere, i actually heard it. the "rumour" is _confirmed_ by mr.stenzel/ex.waldorf r&d, so, its not a rumour any longer. fact is waldorf has been sold to a new owner recently although the name is kept top-secret. details about the acquisition will be published "soon" in form of an official press release (hopefully) whitin 1-3 weeks."
Title link takes you to a post on Moogulator speculating rumors of Waldorf coming back. I haven't heard anything on this and would be pretty surprised (and obviously thrilled) if it turned out to be true. Apparently there have been some Waldorf's for sale in shops in Germany, including this one I previously posted on. Kind of odd as I remember not being able to find any Waldorf products shortly after they went into insolvency. I'm not sure what the rules are on selling new product from a company that hasn't been in existence for this long, if you know please share. In Moogulator's post there is a reference to http://www.waldorfmusic.de, which I haven't seen yet. It looks like a snapshot of the Waldorf site from Oct, 2003 and there are rendering issues in Firefox but not IE. The last date on the site's records are dated June 14, 2005. The FTP links on the site go to the old domain, which no longer exits. I knew about Paul Maddox's Waldorf Site and http://waldorf.electro-music.com, hosting the old files, but not this newer site. I'm guessing this is just a rumor but I don't mind dreaming. Waldorf was one of my favorite synthesizer companies and they had one of my favorite support lists. Here's a bit of trivia for you: When I got my XTk, I sent them a letter on my thoughts. They liked it so much they actually put it up on the XTk page as the only user impression/review. I was totally floored and obviously honored. I'll need to see if I can dig that up. Also check out the reference to Carbon111 on the bottom of the right pane of this XTK page. Man I miss Waldorf.
from the waldorf-user-forum:
ReplyDeletemoreno>> Jurij, where did you see that rumour?
did not seen/read yet anywhere, i actually heard it.
the "rumour" is _confirmed_ by mr.stenzel/ex.waldorf r&d,
so, its not a rumour any longer. fact is waldorf has been sold
to a new owner recently although the name is kept top-secret.
details about the acquisition will be published "soon"
in form of an official press release (hopefully) whitin 1-3 weeks.
couple of open questions pop into my mind:
are the ex.waldorf employees will/willing join the new owner/company
and continue the work+developements where they stopped in 2004?
how about the existing products, will there be any further
developements os-wise (bugfixes, new features),
or the new owner will discontinue the older products
and perhaps focus on some new ones?
last but not least: ...who is the new owner?
regards,
jurij.es.a.szakkor
Perhaps there will be an announcement at Frankfurt Music Messe
ReplyDeleteI hope this is indeed true. I first read about this on the Waldorf mailing list prior to NAMM, only to be dissapointed when no announcement was made in Annaheim. Here's hoping to an awesome Messe....
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