Interesting. Where did you read about the MuseScore 5 AI assist?
Perhaps they are going the same way as NI.
Everywhere they have posted, the anticipated feature of MS5 is AI integration, same with Audacty. In addition, they’ve had job postings for AI engineers. Also, I took meetings with MuseGroup at NAMM last year and discussed some of their plans for the future.
Muse Group used to be called Ultimate Guitar—now, UG is a division of the rebranded company. It’s a privately held Russian company HQ’d in Cyprus. Their products and brands include Ultimate Guitar, MuseScore, Audacity, Hal Leonard, Audio.com, MuseHub, MuseScore Studio, Tonebridge and Staffpad. Hal Leonard, the largest music publisher in the world, was a $xxBillion cash acquisition in 2023.
Although there are paid in-app add-ons, Audacity and MuseScore are free and will remain so because they are the gateway drugs to Muse Group, a very profitable enterprise that understands all the real money in the music business is in publishing and music rights. They are not going the way of NI any time soon.
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The $xx billion cash acquisition was made possible by Francisco Partners. The same guys as NI.
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No thanks.
Jesper
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Before that it was a Belgian company.
So, Hal Leonard is in Russian Hands (or is it in Francisco Partners’ hands - like NI)
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And private equity’s goal is to be profitable–for private equity. That often means screwing over new acquisitions to fund their profit. When the parts sell-off begins, you’ll know the end is near. This has happened more times than you can count, because it’s their standard MO.
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OMG! Blasphemy!
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That’s very interesting. Looking forward to see what they come up with.
Why is this being discussed with any amount of seriousness when this so-called “vision” from the OP is so very clearly vomited up by a chatbot in the first place?
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