Reply To: NOT A DEAL: Spitfire Has Been Acquired by Splice

[peter]

On fretman said

On Teebacca said

Hopefully the plugin/sample-library industry learned from Waves’ backlash when they tried to abruptly drop perpetual licenses and force everyone onto subscriptions. Let’s hope Splice and Spitfire keep that lesson in mind. I don’t think they’re dumb or unaware of what people are saying, but money does weird things to people. Soundcloud introduced paid tiers and restricted features for free users, leading to user backlash and a decline in its core independent artist community. Spotify continues pushing AI-generated music despite user and artist complaints about quality and compensation. Desperate times i guess

So if not Soundcloud, what does the independent artist community use for their online catalog now?

Studio One, Windows, RME UFX, Yamaha MSP7

I realize that you weren’t asking me, but it’s very genre-dependent. But if you’re in the rock genre, BandCamp is still the best game in town for indie artists and, it seems to provide better revenue opportunities than alternative platforms.

Dave Kerzner has done very well there and their basic artist accounts are free. Some trivia here. Dave, our own Peter from IK and I go way back — to the early 00s. I’m pretty sure that when Peter and I first got acquainted, he had known me as a writer from my publication, as the dot com he worked for had a CEO who recommended the employees read my publication (after tendinitis killed my ability to perform music, I threw myself into writing; but eventually lost interest).  And I knew Dave as the keyboardist from the late great Kevin Gilbert’s band (if you don’t know you Kevin was, he was an incredibly talented musician and songwriter whose girlfriend and keyboardist prior to Dave was Sheryl Crowe — he wrote some of her popular songs on her first album; Kevin had a reputation as a profoundly talented musician that was nicknamed “the Mozart of rock” on the LA studio scene). Here’s a video of his pre-solo band he co-led with keyboardist and producer Patrick Leonard with Sheryl on keys:

A link to BandCamp, which I’m sure you’re familiar with.

https://bandcamp.com/artists?from=hpartists

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