Reply To: Mini Review of Musio, My Pick for Best BF Deal of 2024; $149 Sale Ends Dec 10

[Brian]

I agree that Musio is a crazy great deal.  I am not really put off by their bespoke sample player.  It is clean and easy to use.  Lord knows I have a boatload of FX I can apply, although it would be nice to have more baked in presets.  I like the quick preview and download as needed.  EastWest is taking the same approach- you can optionally install everything, but you save a lot of disk space by pulling it down as needed.  I am referring to their bespoke player and not Kontakt based. True, you are counting on the company being there in the future.  I think we are seeing more and more dependence on internet access for our stuff to work at all.  Old timers will remember when the only way to use a computer was via a dumb terminal.  I am a flight simulator buff and bought the new Flight Simulator 2024 version from Microsoft that released a couple weeks ago.  They moved to keeping almost ALL assets on Azure servers.  They basically had to to have any market for the new product. The 2020 version was about 120-250 Gigs of core local data, with map and terrain info streamed in from a 3 petabyte database.  FS2024, if following that blueprint, would require 1.4 Terabytes local storage on every users system, plus the 3 petabyte internet db.  I don’t know how they did it, but 2024 runs WAY better than 2020 did on my system, and the total install is about 25 Gigs.  I have a good data connection, which can certainly make a difference.

Sidenote on 8DIO/Soundpaint.  I think they are a good outfit. As a user, the few times I contacted support I was well treated.  I also took part in their Soundpaint beta program for several months and had only positive experiences.  I dropped out a while ago only because I didn’t feel I was devoting enough time to using the software to do it justice.

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