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For Behles, that independence isn’t just for now. Sitting in the Ableton office, he elaborates on the company’s vision to never sell out

That statement seems like a dig at NI, Izotope and Propellerhead. The Venture Capitalists have been trying to buy Ableton and the answer has always been, a big no, according the founder.

https://www.billboard.com/business/busi ... 234998440/

Sounds like Propellerheads in the early days. As long as the vision is right and you sell enough, everything is fine and you can stay indipendent.

I thought that was an interesting read all around.

I think the quote that stood out the most for me was...

But Ableton’s focus lies in improving its software to stay current with music production technology, plus guarding its independence. “That feels very important to the culture of the place,” says Behles. “It’s not motivated by profit, basically.”

Nice.

Another company is interested in IK.

If companies who are clueless about the DAW industry keep pissing all over it the advantages are we will remove our personal choices on what to work with.

Cockos and Image Line are on the safe list so far.

Every company is after revenue you would have to be crazy to think anything else but it's the way they go about it that counts. Unfortunately there investment funds want a year on year return without fail and can sometimes completely mistake the requirements for improvements in favour of marketing.

Sexy new toys and easier access via subscription sounds great but bug fixes and stability improvements along with improvements in technological implementation is essential for software to remain viable to consumers.

When private equity companies buy nursing homes the death rate at those nursing homes go way up. The stakes are obviously much lower for the makers of software instruments/effects/digital audio workstations, but I think the same kind of dynamic is likely to result: they'll get worse.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... uity-firms

This headline is pure clickbait. I, for one, do not want to buy Ableton.

maybe seems like clickbait if you don't have any interest in Live. I'm curious because I've already invested and don't have a good sense for the company like I've had for Props/RS.

The confusion between Ableton-the-company and Ableton-Live-the-product has crushed what meager hopes I had for comedy.