Originally Posted By: crazyplums
heck, i didn't know akai were still going!


..for some value of "still going". Numark bought the brand four years ago and gradually divested most of the engineering talent. Today I believe only one of the original (as in MPC era) Akai engineers is left.

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Boelle, would it be so expensive to buy the rights back? not like any of it has been used in what, 7 years?
Hugh


I think it would be challenging to find someone from whom to buy the rights for empeg or the codebase. I guess in theory Freescale now own all the IP, but I doubt they know that they do! I'm not sure anyone would notice let alone get upset if someone accidentally lost a CD containing the empeg code base at a Cambridge pub. The chances of that happening seem fairly slim though...

Rob