Reply To: APD Deal: Symphonic Production Bundle by EastWest Sounds – 82% Off for $129

[Peter Woods]

Frank wrote:

Symphonic Production Bundle by EastWest Sounds

EPIC Orchestral Power-Up! 82% OFF EastWest Symphonic Bundle Calling all composers, producers, and sound designers! Elevate your music to epic heights with this mind-blowing deal on the EastWest Symphonic Production Bundle. Score the sounds of a full symphony orchestra and choir for an UNREAL 82% OFF! Symphonic Orchestra: Experience the breathtaking realism and expressiveness of a world-class orchestra at your fingertips. Symphonic Choirs: Add soaring vocals and spine-tingling harmonies to your compositions. Combined value: $698 | Your price: $129 Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to unleash your creativity and bring your musical visions to life with the rich, cinematic sounds of the EastWest Symphonic Production Bundle.

TL’ DR VERSION

As much as this may sound hard to believe considering that Larry is my friend and I started this community, I’ve been trying to watch my spending and I’ve been doing a great job. But this deal you posted, it may break me.

THE EXTENDED VERSION, WITH SOME INSIGHTS ON THE INDUSTRY AND COMPETITIVE/PRICING TRENDS

I’d shared on Cakewalk Forums last year how there’s disruption happening in the sample development and plugin industry and it is causing a freak out among some small developers, like the one who owns VI -Control who has turned his site into a platform to launch a number of attacks, even crossing the line into defamation, on competitor developers who are deep discounting (last year,  he was attacking 8Dio and a couple of other developers, this year, his target is Cinesamples and he’s been using similar tactics and adding claims that Cinesamples is on the verge of bankruptcy — the Kontakt developer community has been becoming increasingly — and rightfully concerned about this behavior — and I know first hand, that it’s related to his anger that his competitors are cutting prices; and the fact is, these changes definitely mean that the market is resetting their expectations on pricing, and the profit margins are getting smaller; the answer should never be engaging in defamation of competitors). Once a developer discounts this heavily it trains the market that this is the REAL VALUE of a library or plugin and consumers then become trained to wait and only purchase when these very deep discounts occur. Once multiple developers have deep discounted similar category products, it does result in consumers resetting pricing expectations, and that is going on right now for orchestral libraries and plugin effects.

As sample library and plugin users, there’s never been a better time, financially and quality-wise. And most of the libraries being severely discounted are older ones, but they’re still often very high quality.

This one appeals to me. I may break down and get it But Black Friday isn’t far away and I’m sure there will be other crazy good deals.I wish EastWest did this for the Soul and Hollywood background vocals libraries, those sound so cool to me. I think it would be a blast to use them in songs. There’s no way I would be up to the challenge of a sophisticated orchestral piece. But it’s so compelling at this price, and these guys, of course, are super talented. What to do…. What to do…

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Peter Woods.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Peter Woods.

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