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[peter]

On Xandre said

Do you think they might go the East West way, and offer something like Composer Cloud?

EDIT: This is my second take on this reply. The first one resulted in some confusion, which I’ll do my best to avoid this time.

Yes, I definitely could see Splice doing something like Composer Cloud with a subscription offering aimed at the composer market. I think in the video with the CEO of Splice and Paul from Spitfire is that Labs+ will soon be available to Splice customers, that would seem a pretty easy fit with their current customers. But a Composer Cloud like offering to the composer market could expand their customer base, and the competitive environment seems clear that prices are coming down and subscriptions are becoming more popular to bring new customers into the fold for cinematic / orchestral libraries. But again, because there’s such a high price point and high margin for their orchestral / cinematic libraries, I think it’s likely that they will maintain perpetual licenses.

It is disappointing to see — largely at YouTube and Reddit — a large amount of hate posts directed at Splcie’s CEO and an unfounded assertion that Splice is going to go subscription-only with Spitfire’s libraries, as if it’s a fact (some comments go into worse areas that that about the CEO that turn things into culture wars). Add to that, there’s a lot of disparagement by the posters against Splice customers and different genres. Clearly, most of the hate posters aren’t aware that Splice sells perpetual license plugins at their store. So, I would recommend to my fellow Spitfire customers that Splice presently sells perpetual licenses as well as their subscription service. Splice customers and Spitfire customers are really two different, very distinct target markets. I seriously doubt that Splice’s CEO would give up on the Spitfire customers, which certainly spend a lot more money per purchase, per year than Splice customers. They’re two very distinct customer bases, but I think Splice can get a lot of intellectual property from Spitfire and also grow the orchestral/cinematic customer market.

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