Prosoniq Discontinues Windows Products

US Updates will be available until the end of 2009      26/03/09

Prosoniq Discontinues Windows Products


Here's the Prosoniq statement...
Prosoniq announces that it will discontinue development of its Windows products starting June 1st, 2009. Existing Windows products will continued to be sold until that date, and updates will be available until the end of 2009. Users who wish to crossgrade from the latest version of their Windows product to the Mac counterpart can do so for free by contacting Prosoniq via its contact form.
Bernhard Bouché, CEO at Prosoniq says that the Windows platform, though having a larger market share, has become increasingly unattractive due to the widespread availability of pirated Prosoniq products. "We were, and still are, using a serial number based authorization. We believe that moving from this relatively easy and painless method to a more complicated and error prone way of protecting our products is counter productive. Our past experience with dongled products shows that implementing a dongle based copy protection is prohibitively expensive for add-on products like our plug-ins, and makes selling over the internet problematic", says Bouché. Since Windows product sales in 2008 have been virtually nonexistent Prosoniq has eventually decided to put the focus once again back exclusively on developing Mac products. "Even though we are aware of the danger of being dependent on a single company we are primarily a Mac based company", Bouché says. "Being a small company developing highly specialized products we don't aim for the mass market", he adds. "Our experience shows that 90% of our customers are on a Mac anyway. We believe that by tending to products on one platform only we will be able to make better products and provide better support. Since crossgrading is free we hope to encourage our Windows users to consider using them on a Mac when they are ready".
Windows product development had been one requirement for Prosoniq's relationship with their former distributor, Steinberg. Prosoniq and Steinberg parted in 2001 but are still successfully working together as technology licensing partners. All Prosoniq technologies will continue to be available for licensing on both Windows and Mac.
 More information:

Get Our Newsletter

City
     

More...

And more

Erica Synths Razornator - Sonic Demo 

5 stereo Chromatic resonators in a desktop effect

3D Design Print Your Own Synth Stands With Loopop 

Web app for your custom stands

SinTH2 60 Voice Monster Polysynth 

All digital hardware beast

Sonic RETROCAST 4 - Robert Henke AKA Monolake 

Retro computing live and other topics

The Bristol Old City Studio - Drop In Tour 

We take a tour and find a Polymoog too