Talk:Soundscape Digital Technology

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The company discussed no longer exists and so there is no risk of the article being deemed as advertising.

Soundscape Digital Technology was a notable company as it was one of the few pioneering companies in digital recording on Windows in the early 1990's, existed for 9 years and had more than 30,000 users of its products, of which there are still many using the systems today.

At the time there were only 3 or 4 companies worldwide who dominated this area, and as niche as they may seem, these systems are responsible for music recording (Radiohead, Muse, Iron Maiden and many others) and film or TV productions (Ace Ventura, Mad About You) that are known by and have entered the lives millions of people.

The company produced products that featured on the front pages of most of the world's main music and recording publications.Similar articles exist for most of the contemporaries of Soundscape Digital Technology (Digidesign, Sadie, Steinberg, eMagic, C-Lab etc.) and for many of the other companies that were also involved in the industry during the move from analogue to digital recording.

The article touches some of the very tangled history of the UK's music and recording industry, which links many companies and individuals as diverse as Autonomy Corporation and Dr Michael Lynch, with Solid State Logic and Peter Gabriel, along with Tascam who pioneered tape based home recording. Several other linked articles are in progress. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chicchico (talk • contribs)
 * OK. The company probably is notable but it seems far too long and chatty for an encyclopedia article. &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 21:21, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for that article. Without that "chatty" type it would not have been able to me to find anything out what's going on with that company. Non-professionals maybe underestimate the status of the company and their product and tend to think, that this article would be unnecessary but they don't know how important they were for the popular music business. Nobody would delete the synclavier article in spite of that less music was done with that system as with the soundscape systems. So please, do not delete or shorten the article.