Sometimes life takes a major unexpected turn.
Well, friends, this is one of those times. My official association with E-MU Systems is coming to an end. Basically, it appears that our parent company Creative Technology Ltd. has some serious plans for E-MU, and those plans do not include my continuing to work there. So 4 1/2 years of leading the group responsible for award-winning products such as Emulator X2 (winner of the coveted mipa Award) and bringing E-MU to the Mac OSX platform, and six years with the larger organization, comes to a quiet and somewhat undignified conclusion.
Manager, E-MU Software Engineering, March 2003 – July 2007.
It is sad to leave behind friends with the local group, and I do worry a bit for those who remain behind. I am actually looking forward to some of the opportunities ahead for myself. Rather than jump right back into the job market, I think this is a good time to reflect and consider some ideas more ambitious or rewarding than a simple paycheck. Though I do suspect I'll start missing that in a month or so.
For now, things should pretty much go ahead as normal for those of us at CatSynth HQ. And of course this site continues as well. I have been planning to do more weekly features like Weekend Cat Blogging and the CatSynth Channel podcasts, including a weekly CD or film review. I may start a weekly feature on being unemployed as well…for as long it lasts.
June 28th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Amar, very sad to hear the news. I hope you succeed in doing what you want. Sometimes being happy but with a lower paycheck is better.
I'm sure Luna will be with you. She'll love having her daddy home.
Take care. Meow.
June 30th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
hearing that news just made me feel awful, echoing kitty's sentiments.
you sound as though you are taking it with a certain amount of native equipoise, which i wouldn't have.
but then again, you have a gift & an education, so enjoy this time.
i'm sure luna will be happy to be your whistling teakettle when the chizburger supply runs low. [now that would make some interesting music -- isn't there a teakettle in [i]Quadrophenia[/i]?]
take care…ws
July 20th, 2007 at 1:43 am
Sorry to hear that.
I am looking for people to give me ideas about building
synthesizer or other music instruments from existing old pc's an old/free software. More like a kind of integration work. I hate to see all yesterday's tech geting in landfils. I am starting to believe that this rediculous unecessary need for superfast supercomputers to make electronic music…….is becoming nonsense. Ohh well later…..