Hello guys,
I came across this forum thread just today so I appologize for not being able to post here at the time of active discussion.
I'm open and ready to answer any questions concerning 2CAudio.
some notes:
1) I do have customers purchase records (though without emails) in a form of sales/accounting reports which also state my profit share and
which has been for years the basis to calculate the amount due to me.
Before march 2020 we had no formal agreement with Andrew. By US law having such reports constitutes having a joint business (because we shared protits and losses)
2) 2CAUDIO LLC was formally registered only in march 2020. if you purchased before that you legally purchased from DesignerSound or long-ago Galbalum (an exclusive distributor of 2CAudio products). 2CAUDIO did not formally exist before march 2020.
3) the brandname 2CAUDIO was invented by me. I have the corresponding emails back from 2005
4) I developed SpaceVerb (aka Aether) and all the plug-in code infrastructure prior to 2CAudio and that was my initial contribution. Mr. Souter did contribute virtually nothing at the start, though later he could balance that out and by 2020 both partied contributed equally I deem.
5) In december 2021 I sent an invoice to Mr. Souter according to the november sales report he sent to me. This invoice was never paid. So Mr. Souter is collecting all the money from sales and puts in his pockets for a year now. I'm wondering if he used this extra money to make updates to plug-ins that many users had been awaiting for years. in his single public exposure at kvr forum in march 2022 he promised he would support and develop products further (I have no idea how this is possible though as 95% of the code is developed by me, extremely complex code btw that I invested 17 years of my life into). It's been 7 months. The the only thing he's been doing is hiding all this information about the situation and trying to collect as much money as he could. He did not publish any info that he kicked out the major contributor and the author of 95% of the code out of the company. He could be dishonest with me but at least he must be honest with customers if he really wants to collect money under 2C brand. customers invested good amount of their money into 2C plug-ins and have a vested right to know about the situation and whether or not the plug-ins will be supported/updated. If he to grab all 2C assets he should at least say to customers: Denis got kicked out, I arrested all his personal money and would have double income from sales. This would allow me to hire a developer and we would make updates and further support the products. aside Denis this would be fair to customers.
In jan/feb 2022 having no money from sales I was actively working on M1 support. it was 50% done and if anything the M1 support would have been available later this spring already. Mr. Souter having doble amount of money could have not made these much anticipated updates so far. And you guys blame me here in this forum? for what? maybe you think I'm an *russian untermesch* thus has no right to raise my voice and Mr. Souter is right just became he is an ubermensch because he is american? guys have a look at what this ubermensch is actually doing! 2C users, do you really think Mr. Souter is fair and honest with you?
Now the situation seems like Mr. Souter has no intention to update/support the products further. I might be wrong of course.
Unlike Mr. Souter I respect other people's property rights and I cannot release updates by my own even though I can do them.
6) Anyone who is going to purchase anything from Mr. Souter must be aware that on May 9th 2022 my attorney sent a Cease&Desist letter to Mr. Souter in which we demanded to stop infringing my copyrights by distributing and comercialization of software products that are based on my intellectual property. Sooner or later I would be able to sue Mr. Souter for that.
7) there are many public evidences that I'm the major contributor to 2CAudio. Even the web states that. And if you own any 2C plug-in you could see on info page:
Denis Malygin
Andrew Souter
Regards,
Denis, 2CAudio Initiator, Co-Founder and the Lead Developer