Tassman 5 will not happen

http://www.dontcrack.com/news/2017/10/applied-acoustics-systems-tassman-4-depreciated/
 
https://www.applied-acoustics.com/tassman-4/faq/
 
 

I assume they meant to say "deprecated" rather than "depreciated". It's still appreciated, just not for sale anymore.
 
I'm a little disappointed they didn't offer some kind of close-out sale. I'd have given them 20 bucks for it, strictly as-is.
 

such a shame, but i suppose it's a better business model producing the instruments they do than that big daddy

bitflipper
I assume they meant to say "deprecated" rather than "depreciated".

Well, English is a second language to them (they are French Canadian and French is the language spoken at their office), so I'll cut them some slack on this one. 

I love Tassman 4, I'd have liked to see what they did with V5, but I imagine it is not their top seller, and the announcement suggests that the code base has become difficult to manage. Pity!

I've owned it since it was an add-on for Sonar, and cross-grade almost immediately to the full version. It was a remarkable tool, but it was also a resource hog, and it kind of fell by the wayside for a bit. I can't remember exactly which version broke the resource barrier (I think it was 3?) but once it became usable I returned it to its proper place in my plugin menus<G>! It remains part of my template, and about the only reason I can think of to ditch it would be when it stops working - or when AAS introduces a replacement that is worthy.

Don't get me wrong, I use Ultra-Analog and String Studio, and I think their current versions were well thought out improvements on the originals. But nothing quite sounds like Tassman. I hope it works for a long time!

20 years???

Magic Russ
http://www.dontcrack.com/news/2017/10/applied-acoustics-systems-tassman-4-depreciated/
https://www.applied-acoustics.com/tassman-4/faq/

     FWIW, though AAS is based in Montreal,  both co-founders are actually from France.
https://www.applied-acoustics.com/about/
Incidentally, AAS correctly referred to Tassman as "deprecated" not "depreciated" on their website -  https://www.applied-acoustics.com/tassman-4/faq/
The reference to T4 being "depreciated" came from the "Don't crack" folks (DC is also apparently based in Montreal, and I assume ARE Canadian (though I don't know if they are French Canadian or not. Could just be anglo-Canadians who can't spell (like me)).
 
     That said - I am still hopeful for Tassman 5. In their statement, AAS never actually say that there won't be a Tassman 5 (unless I missed it). They have deprecated Tassman 4 specifically, and use the version number specifically, then went on to proclaim their belief in a future for a modular environment. In the past they took a lot of flack for incompatibility between versions (T2 to T3 IIRC) - and I am guessing they are sensitive to releasing T5 as a completely incompatible version to T4, which is probably necessary to maintain compatibility with all of their other products. 
So -  I am keeping faint hope that AAS are just managing expectations and that there will in fact, be a Tassman 5.
(sorry for the long post - got up early and waiting for inspiration to strike).
 
 

yeah, audiodamage have also started doing hw stuff https://audiodamage.com/collections/eurorack

Backwards? Nah. IMO HW is the only right way to do modular, and in the last few years the eurorack modular market has been exploding even if it's still a niche within a niche.
 
The advantages of SW are polyphony and presets/repeatability. But with SW modulars you tend to end up with "synth builders" which often have explicitly separate builder screens and you end up being in either "building mode" or "playing mode". With a HW modular you aren't really done creating the patch until you turn the whole thing off, and experimentation is immediately rewarded and completely addictive. It's just different. And it's not the same as non-modular analog HW synths vs. VST emulations either.
 
Having said that, SW like Tassman and Reaktor do what they do very, very well and there's nothing wrong with a great synth builder.