Reply To: Musio Annual Plan $74 US reg. $99

[peter]

On fretman said

But doesn’t Musio lock you in forever? If you stop the subscription and next year you need to re-open an old project that used Musio, aren’t you stuck?

That is pretty much how all of them operate when it comes to subscriptions. But Brian and I use Muso’s perpetual license versions — and Brian bought Musio’s lifetime deal. I recommend is picking up the perpetual license when it goes on sale next time. It’s been on sale for as low as $149, and it’s an astounding value — and once again, I have no relationship and I’ve consulted to their partners, so you can be certain that my recommendation doesn’t help me with developer’s I’ve advised. But I value the ability to share my honest opinions — which sure, is the same line influencers give. But no one is paying me or giving me products to be an influencer. You can ask my friends, my family, or former colleagues if they think that I’d be able to shill for a company. Nope. No one else is in the sample developer biz is offering anything close to the same value that Musio offers with their perpetual license when they’ve been on sale. I don’t think it’s sustainable for them to keep offering it as cheap as they have, but while they’re doing it, I would strongly recommend snapping it up.

But subscriptions for sample libraries or the subscription model that BandLab uses both leave you in bad shape if you want to go back to a project and edit. Now, to be clear, you can freeze tracks in some DAWs and then you don’t need to have that library anymore. But personally,. I want the ability to make edits if I go back and do a remix, which I’ve done a lot. So, like most of us here, I’m not a fan of the subscription model.

That said for my business and even for this site, I have at least one dozen annual subscriptions to various developers from big stuff like the design tool, the theme developer, image optimization, security, email services — even the reactions (the likes, etc) on the forum and the Groups cost me around $80 a year for an update and service agreement with the developers. So, for a site like this, where hackers are constantly looking for vulnerabilities and old code is dangerous, PLUS, it’s a super complex site, I think the subscriptions are inevitable if you don’t want your site attacked — unless you are a developer yourself.  But for making music, I don’t think that there’s a question for me. Perpetual license all the way.

Your friend who keeps the beat.