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

[Peter DeLegge]

On GoncaloL said

Really great deal Musio Perpetual.

If they want me to jump on board on the next iteration Musio 2 if that will ever come out (and assuming that it will have to be pricier than what they charge for Musio 1 on sale) i would need a consistent road map of a bunch of interesting libraries but even more importantly would be great to see patch/snapshots (with favorites option) and better effects. That would be great

What’s happening with orchestral developers that have been around a long time and have huge catalogs is that they’ve already paid for the huge production costs (okay, I’m mainly referring to Cinesamples and 8Dio). So it’s not like they can go drop a quarter million on making a new orchestral library and then sell that and 1,000 more libraries for $149 US and stay in business. You’re exactly right, @goncalol, Musio certainly won’t be doing another deal that even comes close to a Musio 2. And consider that the stuff in Musio 1 was created over nearly two decades. So yeah, there’s no question that the talk of Musio 2 back when they first launched Musio 1 was absolutely overblown without a strong basis in reality.

So, here’s how I looked at it when I decided to buy it. I saw that there’s a good deal of risk if Musio was going to survive. I knew from developers that they were laying off people and that one of the co-founders had left a couple of years prior and then the other Mike left. Musio 2 was pure pie in the sky hype. I would never have advised a developer that was a smart or even an honest tactic to promise that. It was neither. So, I hesitated to buy these libraries because I knew there was a serious risk that Musio was going to fold and was making a big promise there’s no way that they would deliver on.

What I think is likely to happen is that the new CEO — who I think is much more of a straight shooter than Mike Patti,- but that’s based on his statements and my instincts (mainly, the man shares some things that most CEOs would hide and hasn’t made the overhyped, overpromises Mike Patti was making) — will end up making more modest sample libraries. Not giant orchestral, but more along the lines of soloists, of less costly to sample instruments. I know from other develoeprs and the new CEO’s statemetns that he still employees some very talented people. I think he’s a savvy guy and he’s got his head on straight from what I can tell. So, going forward, my guess is that Musio will relese more libraries, but not giant ones. I don’t think Musio 2 — if it happens in the next year or so — will come anywhere close to what Musio 1 is. I could imagine several, much more modest sample libraries.

And if they do that and those libraries sound as good as the libraries in Musio 1 are affordable, I’m very interested. But no doubt, those libraries will not be as inexpensive as the libraries made as far as 15 or so years ago included in the Musio 1 perpeutal license. They’re going to need to recoup production costs on new libraries and that would take quite a long time at the prices they’re currently selling things at — unless they had an enormous customer base increase.

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