Does equipment establish the elite? How much 'having' do you have to have? Does it ever bother you that industries have grown up by preying on your dreams? Remember, if you just have one more pretty processor, one more piece of software, one more gearhead gizmo, you'd finally finish the CD, write the hit, get somewhere. Silicon Valley beckons with the promise of technology you can eat, but in fact when you buy that technology, they are the ones who are eating. And you buy more and more. OSC stands for breaking the cycle of consumption. We are a small group of music industry refugees, tired of business infighting, corperate greed, and pursuit of 'the next big thing.' For a while we forgot that creation requires hard drive,not hard drives. But in 1988 we remembered. OSC makes cheap Macintosh digital audio software that you can use to finish real things (CDs, albums, videos, films). We also publish 'non-emulative CD-ROM sound collections. We weathered the front lines of the digital audio revolution, but the revolution is over and now its time for everyone to have thier turn. Not just thosewith $50,000 of disposable income. Large corporations have controlled our entertainment industry for many decades. By controlling the means of production and distribution, these companies have retained absolute control. This era must now come to an end. The means of production are now within the reach of the common person, so defy those who would tell you how and what to create. Take your ideas, and make them real. OSC is commited to making it possible for all persons to control thier creative destiny, and to produce works of competative quality. We say "buy the minimum and let the idea fuel the fire." And we back this up by providing super-affordable tools for making this possible. We are not venture capitalized, we do not plan to 'go public', in fact we do this because it means something to us. We make things only when we wnat those things. We use things only when we need those things.

OSC says: Tools are NOT Talent - Money != Success - integrity cannot be bought - consume the minimum, produce the maximum - talk is a poor substitute for action - create yourself before someone else does - don't do what people tell you to do - trust your heart - confront and document - believe nothing - finish things and give them to people

These ideas are OSC. Make no mistake - we want to get into your face, and we hope that you'll get into ours. In this way, we welcome you into our world: Contact us with ideas, submit sounds for our sound collections (you will make a healthy percent of the profit), write an article. Better yet, spend the minimum to make what tou want to make - then send us a copy. We're interested.