September 05, 2008
Home
About
Submit Press Release
PR Firms
Editors/Journalists
Search Archives
 
News Releases by Category  
News by Country  
News by MSA  
All News for Today  
Browse News by Day  
News by Trackbacks  
All Press Releases for May 4, 2006 Subscribe to this News Feed  
 

SFX Machine Featured in Withdrawn Novel; Book Contract Cancelled Due to Plagiarism

SFX Machine, an award-winning audio effects plug-in, features prominently in My Totally Excellent Life, the "chick lit" novel by Maakya Vaidyanathan-Miller that was recently withdrawn by the publisher due to extensive plagiarism. The program plays a major role in the book's storyline, which revolves around the adventures of two young women but also involves concepts like feedback, "strange loops," "shoplifting," and an archetypal figure named "Ouroborus," a snake that eats its own tail. Central to the novel is the idea that everything modulates everything else, a concept apparently inspired by the SFX Machine architecture.

Seaside, CA (PRWEB) May 4, 2006 -- SFX Machine, an award-winning audio effects plug-in, features prominently in My Totally Excellent Life, the "chick lit" novel by Maakya Vaidyanathan-Miller that was recently withdrawn by the publisher due to extensive plagiarism.

According to Earl Vickers, software developer and CEO of The Sound Guy, Inc., "SFX Machine was mentioned repeatedly throughout the book. I can't think of another young adult novel so heavily focused on a particular piece of audio effects software."

The program plays a major role in the book's storyline. Over 50 pages of the 148-page novel mention the software. At one point, a character quotes an entire paragraph verbatim from the SFX Machine user manual.

The book's plot revolves around the adventures of two young women, but it also involves concepts like feedback, "strange loops," "shoplifting," and an archetypal figure named "Ouroborus," a snake that eats its own tail. Central to the novel is the idea that everything modulates everything else, a concept apparently inspired by the SFX Machine architecture.

An excerpt from the novel can be seen at http://www.sfxmachine.com/news.html.

About The Sound Guy, Inc.

The Sound Guy, Inc. publishes the SFX Machine family of audio effects plug-ins. A distributed company, The Sound Guy, Inc. has developers in Seaside, San Francisco and Santa Barbara, California; Massachusetts; Singapore; and England. The Sound Guy, Inc. recently announced the release of SFX Machine Pro, a modular multi-effects plug-in that allows users to create their own audio effects from scratch.

For more information, visit the web site at http://sfxmachine.com .

###


See the original story at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/05/prweb381020.htm
Email this story to a colleague
Printer Friendly Version
Bookmark with del.icio.us
Bookmark with Y!MyWeb
Submit to Digg
Earl Vickers
The Sound Guy, Inc.
831-883-8894
Email us Here

SFX Machine Pro
Uploaded: May 3, 2006
File Name: sfxprologosmaller.jpg

If you have any questions regarding information in these press releases please contact the company listed in the press release. Please do not contact PRWeb. We will be unable to assist you with your inquiry. PRWeb disclaims any content contained in these release. Our complete disclaimer appears here.
 
Disclaimer: If you have any questions regarding information in these press releases please contact the company listed in the press release.
Please do not contact PRWeb®. We will be unable to assist you with your inquiry.
PRWeb® disclaims any content contained in these releases. Our complete disclaimer appears here.

© Copyright 1997-2007, Vocus PRW Holdings, LLC.
Vocus, PRWeb and Publicity Wire are trademarks or registered trademarks of Vocus, Inc. or Vocus PRW Holdings, LLC.

Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Copyright