Just announced at Syntrillium:
http://www.syntrillium.com/news/article.html?91



Obs: Kudos to rocketsauce for sharing this

They didn't waste no time putting '© 2003 Adobe Systems Incorporated' at the bottom of the website.

it can be only better for CEP I presume...
Adobe knows CEP has a great potential, commercially speaking, and best of all, CEP'll profit from the financial power of Adobe...
but how knows ?
wait & see...

IMHO, sad news.
Adobe never get my admiration, because of its agressive behaviour against competition and individuals.
Until now, Sytrillium had done a wonderful job, but I suspect the party is over.
I can imagine how the new Cool Edit home page, will looks like in the near future:

Very cool graphics to impress all Joes, and a big labyrint leading all to the same place: nowhere.

You remind me many good old software company like Quarterdeck, Central Point and Norton .... all belongs to Symantec now, but the original spirit of the product was gone forever.

And I think Cool Edit will have the same destiny, software get worse after 1 or 2 release, original team scattered, and many USER FRIENDLY but unnecessary features will be added.

I like your comment LIF B) :

Very cool graphics to impress all Joes, and a big labyrint leading all to the same place: nowhere.

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From: johnsonlam:
"You remind me many good old software company like Quarterdeck, Central Point and Norton .... all belongs to Symantec now, but the original spirit of the product was gone forever."
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Yep. You got my point.
In the recent years, I have seen this happening a lot:
Good(but small) softwarehouses being killed after deals like this.
"Our" Syntrillium is gone forever, no doubt.
By visiting big soft companies sites, you'll see how they look similar and use the same formula, trying to substitute real content by colorful texts, cools logos, animations or graphics..

In a different scale , reminds me a lot of my country :'(.

Maybe I'm too old:(, in most cases: the latest doesn't mean it's the best.

Technology is advancing, however the quality of software falling, 10 years ago I play my favorite games on my 64K Apple ][, now I play the same thing in the Apple emulator because the 3D games just can't attract me to play.

In the same basis, the music now compose by synthesizers sounds perfect but it's not good as play by musicians. I miss those great musicians that gone, like I miss the good old software.

I didn't like the giant software corporation's way to sell, it's not far from cheating. IMHO, GNU is the only way to against them. I'm waiting to try audio software like Audicity, hope that one day it can replace Cool Edit.

[just a joke, stay calm]
At least if they are owned by Adobe, you just know that you'll be able to get a full CEP licence with that five year old Syrius exe!
[/joke]

Alas, I agree with the others here, I am proud to own a Syntrillium product because I thought it was made by a small and well deserving team, who actually gave a bit of thought and effort into their users above their wallets. I always preferred CEP to Sound Forge and others, it had a friendly feel to it without being dumbed down. What's the betting that will change soon...

Don't worry, Aol can always buy Adobe, and then Microsoft can always buy Aol

Trust and support to the open source movement will set you free of the food chain

I wonder when we will see the Adobe logo inside Nero Burning ROM ... AFAIK Nero's native audio filters' origin was Syntrillium ...

Hmm. Steinberg was recently purchased by Pinnacle Systems. Does that mean that Cubase, the best music software on the planet, will go bye-bye? Grave news for us musicians.

At this rate there will be no good commercial software left. I agree that what they did to Norton was horrible

Adobe Systems released their official press statement today:

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/...yntrillium.html

Hi,

Seriously - I don't think this should be such a big problem. Audacity seems to be a decent enough editor for basic tasks and it seems quite stable. I know its far off of the abilities of Cool Edit - but it does all the tasks I need to do quite easily. Hopefully it will mature to include the features everyone may require.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Ruairi

I need the multitracker and well developed processing (screwing up sound) features of CEP