I'm always sad to see smaller developers get bought out, but to me this has to be the case here.
 
Lots of speculation out there, most of which doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but there is one theory that might...
 
 
 
 
 
 

Well another thing to consider is the new EU VAT Tax that went into effect January 1, 2015.
 
I don't know all the details but a lot of smaller vendors or companies have put up notices that there would be price increases or that they could no longer afford to sell their stuff online as individuals or really small companies and maintain any profitability.
 
I'm sure Camel Audio will do more announcements in the future, if it's a company buyout then they may be under NDA until final sale is done and cannot say anything.
 
really still surprising event.

Please, please, please Declan don't say they have been bought out by crApple.

There is some third-hand, unsubstantiated anecdotal evidence that Camel Audio's owner has been shopping for a buyer for at least a year. Apparently, Apple was one of the companies that he'd approached but no deal was struck. 
 
There aren't a lot of big music-software companies I'd want to see acquire Camel. Yamaha and/or Steinberg, Avid, Native Instruments - none of these outfits would be good news. Let's hope it was Gibson!

Steinberg, Avid, NI and Gibson would at least stay cross platform. Apple would assimilate it and kill off PC support and that would be that for the majority of the world's computer users. Apple are a pack of bastards. IMO YMMV :)

I was playing with Alchemy Player just last night and thinking that I needed to buy a couple more libraries and upgrade to the full version... :/ 
 
Apple already has great soft synths developers working for them so it doesn't surprise me that they passed on the offer - and though I personally wouldn't have suffered from it, I know how much it sucks on the other side of things.
 
Considering what happened w/ René and RGC, I wouldn't be too excited if Gibson/Cakewalk had acquired them. Rapture and Dimension both had the potential to develop into something like Alchemy...
 
Yamaha/Steinberg would be a whole lot worst. Avid recently let go of AIR and M-Audio, so I doubt that they're into acquiring anything...

48 pages of speculation at KVRAudio forums. 
 
sad but kinda funny reading if you have time to waste.

Rain
I was playing with Alchemy Player just last night and thinking that I needed to buy a couple more libraries and upgrade to the full version... :/

 
Exactly the same with me.... been using the player and hoping for a sale or next version to come out.  REALLY nice synth, love it.

bitflipper
There is some third-hand, unsubstantiated anecdotal evidence that Camel Audio's owner has been shopping for a buyer for at least a year. Apparently, Apple was one of the companies that he'd approached but no deal was struck. 
 
There aren't a lot of big music-software companies I'd want to see acquire Camel. Yamaha and/or Steinberg, Avid, Native Instruments - none of these outfits would be good news. Let's hope it was Gibson!

I don't see it being NI. Gibson/Cakewalk would actually make some sense given Cakewalk's limited synth development in recent years and Alchemy's support for the sfz format.

Sad news indeed .