ElmerJFudd

Just some information for you guys about how mackie views what they think is their protocol and their reaction to other companies reverse engineering their hardware. Of course we all know that Mackie did develop Logic Control or MCU. Their dispute with eMagic is widely known - but I am curious how exactly they settled in the end. DOES Mackie own the MCU protocol? E-MAIL from MACKIE: Dan Steinberg, Tracktion product manager here. Unfortunately, the sysex details of the Mackie Control are not an open standard and are not publicly available, they represent a lot of hard work and intellectual property that we need to protect carefully. It is true that many other companies use the MCU's code in their products. When it is software companies adding MCU support in their DAWs, its always been a result of us licensing the code to them and working with them to make it happen. When it's competing control surface companies, it's usually been more of a case of them reverse engineering the code and using it without our knowledge or cooperation. If [a hardware company] is interested in having their controllers emulate an MCU, we could look into the possibility of working with them. The bets way to make this happen is to have an official [hardware company's] representative contact myself or our business development manager, Tony Rodrigues (tonyrodrigues@mackie.com). We can then discuss with them their goals, and then we can evaluate where we want to go from there. Thanks very much! Dan Steinberg Recording Product Manager dan.steinberg@mackie.com 760-721-7177 (desk) 760-672-0905 (cell) x7021 from within Mackie