The RNDigital Labs drama continues…
Seriously, what the fuck is going with this company?
From the RNDigital Labs Twitter feed:
RNDigital Labs tells :: we are out of business because some small minded bricks are not interrested in good plugs. http://rndigitallabs.com
Their website address brings up something that doesn’t look right at all.
With all the crap that’s been going on around this company it’s hard to tell if they’ve been hacked, are out of business or some nut job better suited for a mental institution simply gained control of the company. Which begs the question: who is in control? I would email them and ask to get the full story, but I have no clue who I should contact.
It’s a shame really. They were among the most innovative plug-in companies out there.
“It’s a shame really. They were among the most innovative plug-in companies out there.”
You mean to buy Elemental Audio is then double the prices is really inovative?
By wurst ~ November 12, 2009 kl 6:12 am
No you’re right. Badly phrased. They had some of the most innovative plug-ins and technologies at their disposal. Better?
By stiff ~ November 12, 2009 kl 6:21 am
yep.
By wurst ~ November 12, 2009 kl 6:44 am
Looks like someone forgot to renew the domain registration…
By ronnie ~ November 12, 2009 kl 7:08 am
Hhhmmmm… Not sure what’s happening here. Reacting on reactions: wasn’t it that RN started a company with elemental, renamed everything and make it more expensive? Than the big fight over names and rights and the elemental guy continuing under a sort of different RN name…. They should have re-renamed it elemental…
By J~P ~ November 12, 2009 kl 7:55 am
What is interesting is that both Roger Nichols RN site as rndigital.org are gone…
By J~P ~ November 12, 2009 kl 8:01 am
WHAT!!!!?????
I hope this is not true! OH MY BAD DAY.
One of the few softwares I REALLY care for.
(Elemental Audio AND the latest RNDigital Labs installment)
I mostly suspect Roger Nichols to be the reason.
I always behaved like a dickhead in this matter.
I cannot sleep tonight.
By dyscode ~ November 12, 2009 kl 10:45 am
He not I
well I deserve it for my bad tongue.
By dyscode ~ November 12, 2009 kl 10:50 am
PS. I recently had a nice discussion about IXL2.0 with one of the programmers of RND. I just sent him a message on his private contact. Maybe he will reply.
By dyscode ~ November 12, 2009 kl 11:15 am
I received an email from them several weeks ago to tell me the website would be down and not to worry, it would take a couple of weeks to be up again. I tossed it so can’t offer more than that recollection but it would seem it was anticipated and owners of products were notified of some temporary offline situation
By Loopy C ~ November 12, 2009 kl 3:05 pm
btw, the twitter I have for rnd is:
http://twitter.com/RNDigitalLabs
Which does not contain any mention such as posted?
By Loopy C ~ November 12, 2009 kl 4:12 pm
“I Always Behaved Like A Dickhead In This Matter” = a fantastic song title.
- c
By Chad Clark ~ November 12, 2009 kl 7:29 pm
@Loopy
yes thats the corect twitter.
It WAS there yesterday, we all saw it.
the lights in the sky….
@ Chad,
don´t forget my royalties, when it turns into a hit ;D
mmmh there seems to be some hack going on.
now http://www.novationmusic.com is gone also.
can anyone confirm this?
thanks
By dyscode ~ November 12, 2009 kl 9:06 pm
this one works:
http://www.novationmusic.de and points you to an now non-existing site.
By dyscode ~ November 12, 2009 kl 9:08 pm
Am I getting hysterical now?
I need to get some sleep.
sorry, stiff for spamming your blog!
By dyscode ~ November 12, 2009 kl 10:01 pm
>> “http://twitter.com/RNDigitalLabs
Which does not contain any mention such as posted?”
That’s the twitter I got it from. Hacked?
dyscode, the Novation sites works now. Stop yer doomsday preachin’!
By stiff ~ November 13, 2009 kl 5:49 am
hey. i posted this on gearslutz last month after seeing some very strange things on the RNDigital site:
“RNDigital: paranoia or sabotage?
hi. i went by RNDigital today to see if there was anything new with Inspector and here’s what I found:
Dear RNDigital Labs Customer,
on 10/01/2009 our website rndigitallabs.com and our e-mail system has been illegally taken over by our former colleague Bastian Schnürle and his company Silberstein GbR.
Apparently, out of a dispute about the looks of Inspector XL 2 Bastian has decided to illegally attempt a take over of the RNDigital Labs operation.
Hence, the staff at RNDigitallabs Inc. has been unable to regain control of our website and Bastian has released some unapproved versions of our plug-ins.
We have at this time no choice but to shut down all operations and cease the sale of RNDigital Labs software.
there are some strange things going on over there.
too bad. i like inspector.”
By marco ~ November 13, 2009 kl 1:54 pm
Yes, this is Reinhold Probst´s version of the truth.
here´s what I gathered on Information over time:
Fact is that Probst and Nichols just forked over the cash and let Schnürle all alone do ALL the work (Coding, Grafix, Support, Website etc.).
And they paid Schnürle a salary only be can be described as self-exploitation on his side, effectivly.
If you check your support mails from RND it´s always and only Schnürle replying all the time.
So Schnürle HAD to make some decisions, the boss did not like in the end. And that´s how it is now.
Seems Probst has the biggest ego of them all.
Essentially Probst makes his money with Power Plant supplies ( http://www.dilo.com ). So he had effectivly no clue how the plug-in/software buisness works. And also Nichols, who was only doing this just for fun, may have showed some dedication but he did not get along with Probst, as history shows.
And finally Schnürle has, as far as I understand it, also some partner-options of the company but Probst owns RND, in the end. So ‘illigal’ is a bit too far fetched.
By dyscode ~ November 14, 2009 kl 5:47 am
I am both scandalized AND bored.
Which one of these guys are going to sing “I Always Behaved Like A Dickhead In This Matter”?
Sounds like they all are pretty good candidates.
- c
By Chad Clark ~ November 14, 2009 kl 6:30 am
it´s also true that all hell broke loose over the dispute about IXL2. But it was only the straw that broke the camels neck.
so for those who want to work with the 2.0 version here´s a download link:
http://www.silberstein.de/ex-rndigital/PlugInstaller/MAC/InspectorXL_2_0.dmg.zip
this is still iLOK protected software!
Don´t bother to download if you
do not have a license for it!
By dyscode ~ November 14, 2009 kl 6:39 am
hope maybe somehow between all the lawsuits that I’d expect may be ongoing they can at least sell the IP to a new company who won’t c*ck things up as much as they did. all this BS aside they ARE excellent, excellent plug-ins!!!!
By terminal3 ~ November 14, 2009 kl 8:38 am
lucky i downloaded the software and ilok hacked it, fuck you all
By horse ~ November 14, 2009 kl 9:15 am
’scuse me?!??!?!?!?
By J~P ~ November 14, 2009 kl 10:41 am
For those of you still looking for contact:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/reinhold-probst/6/66a/3a7
This is mister Probst on Linkedin
By J~P ~ November 19, 2009 kl 9:44 am
I’m very sad to see this thing going on too.
These are among my very favorite plugs.
I actually bought the whole collection and had big expectations regarding their future.
I really hope they find the best way out, with respect for each other and for us, the customers who support them.
By Nuno ~ December 21, 2009 kl 4:54 am
By the way, is there any kind of moderation here?
By Nuno ~ December 21, 2009 kl 5:05 am
Nuno, what do you mean moderation?
By stiff ~ December 24, 2009 kl 6:09 am
I bought the whole package as well – I love the Detailer and Finis 3 is pretty impressive (and I’m only an Amateur/Preset User….).
Not Waves but more imaginative than most Waves perhaps.. someone buy the company and promote it properly?
By AndyL ~ December 24, 2009 kl 3:13 pm
Hi stiff, thanks for asking.
When I say moderation I mean some kind of supervision over idiotic comments like the one made by horse.
(by the way, horses are actually very noble animals)
By Nuno ~ January 7, 2010 kl 1:58 pm
Well, yeah, sort of. I’ve removed maybe a total of 5 comments aside from pure spam during the entire existence of ProTooler. They’ve all been personal assaults, which is really the only thing that I consider being totally out of line. Usually stupid comments stand, but more often than that people actually behave here…!
By stiff ~ January 7, 2010 kl 4:54 pm
the link to the following RNDigital software was the official place where you downloaded your RNDigital installers since RND existed.
But since the Frontend of RND is down this link provides the backend access to the Installers.
USER: anonymous@silberstein.de
URL: http://ftp.silbertein.de
MODE: anonymous
NOTE: Silberstein Media Company IS the developer of all RND software and in order to use this software you need a valid RNDigial license (iLok or serial).
This is a service for the user base.
By dyscode ~ January 26, 2010 kl 8:31 pm
fortget the links above.
the correct sever is:
http://ftp.silberstein.de
you do NOT need the DIR entry.
best
By dyscode ~ January 27, 2010 kl 6:58 am
So, maybe Silberstein Media Company could buy the licensing of those plugins and release them under their own name. I really found Uniquelizer 2 to be the perfect swiss army knife EQ for post (especially when dealing with noisy dialogues). I’m waiting for it to be back.
By Benji ~ January 29, 2010 kl 12:03 pm
Aaaaaaagh. I’m just STILL trying to find a way to get a version of Firium and Equium which work on 10.5 or 10.6! I have the 2.0 EA versions, but I never upgraded to the RND versions because I didn’t need to. But starting last July I tried, and tried, and tried to Crossgrade and every time I attempted, the transaction didn’t go through. RND tech support typically got back to me within a week each time, but eventually, they just disappeared…and now I see why. Damnit! I purchased these plugins and SURE would like to be able to continue to use them…. I’m trying the Linked in Connection… If anyone gets any new word on this situation with EA/RND – I’d love to hear it.
By vanceg ~ February 13, 2010 kl 8:56 pm
zup, i have fireq and uniquelizer demo versions, u still need ilok or codes.
i can exchange for d4 demo also. dinamyzer
anyway, sad bout this shit rnd out of bussines stuff. gr8 plugs
By esdesd ~ February 18, 2010 kl 5:03 am
Hey “Dyscode”
“it´s also true that all hell broke loose over the dispute about IXL2. But it was only the straw that broke the camels neck.
so for those who want to work with the 2.0 version here´s a download link:
http://www.silberstein.de/ex-rndigital/PlugInstaller/MAC/InspectorXL_2_0.dmg.zip
this is still iLOK protected software!
Don´t bother to download if you
do not have a license for it!”
How did u get it man?
By esdesd ~ February 18, 2010 kl 12:42 pm
So Bastian seems to be a good guy to me.
He told me the business went of on 062010…
I hope some company will take it over and resell the stuff and serve the one’s who already own the stuff of RND…
Most of the software mastering tools distorting the end signal (some people like it, i not)…
It’s real good stuff.
I bought it in 2007, tried some other software as T-Racks or Izotope but the tools of RND are so much better to work with…
I hope someone will take it over maybe Bastian, if we all together can help him with a bundeled hand he maybe would like to take it over and bring it somewhere so the tools can go on and on…
What can we do !!!!!!!
Take our Signs together and send him a letter or something !!!
Maybe Bastian can tell us how we can organize this together with all the users of the RND stuff !!!
Best Regards, P.
By Petro ~ March 2, 2010 kl 3:17 pm
A little misunderstood from me,
Bastian told me that the business went of on 102009 but as said, it seems to me as a good guy…
I still hope that there will be anyone who is gonna take the stuff over and serve the customers…
We payed and trusted the guys from RND !!!
By Petro ~ March 4, 2010 kl 12:27 pm
Petro
Is it still possible to contact BAstian ?
I bought inspector years ago, but i Need to re authorize them..
Hopefully you know how ?
regards
By Jan Deca ~ April 15, 2010 kl 9:01 am
try bastian.schnurle (at) silberstein.de
By terminal3 ~ April 15, 2010 kl 1:14 pm
Don’t cry, ladies. Seems like Bastian is rising up his own plugin business at the moment:
http://axisplugins.com/contact-us/
So buy his plugins animating him in doin more good stuff.
If he reads this: Schöne Grüße aus Köln, Basti!
By JanG ~ June 23, 2010 kl 8:43 am
I just had a major OSX crash- don’t ask- an VST Frequalizer. I got the iLok and (I think the proper rev.) of the auth. software going, but I can’t find Freq.
Where can I find anything the Elemental or the RND version, to re- install?
Please reply direct, if you could redrhythm at.
triad dot rr.com
I’m getting desperate….
By azureblue ~ June 25, 2010 kl 10:38 am
PS The full Fireq 2.xx version, not LE …..
By azureblue ~ June 25, 2010 kl 10:59 am