Reply To: Musio 1 perpetual license $125.16 JRRShop

[Peter DeLegge]

On Brian said

Agreed- “NO BRAINER” if you want sampled acoustic instruments.  The catalog is enormous.  Honestly I feel a bit of a chump for buying the lifetime license because so far, everything they have released is in Musio 1.

Wait, I liked it when reading your first sentence. I was not liking it for the third sentence!!!! You’re no chump.

You took a gamble. If Cinesamples stays in business for the remainder of this decade and produces more sample libraries, your gamble could easily pay off. But so far it’s a big question mark. But I’ll just say it — and I said it more subtly back when Cinesamples was marketing Musio 1 — I actually wrote this basic opinion in another forum (I’ll never say which one!), but I don’t believe they were being honest with people when they were promising a Musio 2 in 2025. And that was confirmed by the new CEO sharing that they were in terrible financial shape and questioning if they’d even make it through the year. Of course, there’s no way that they could have funded doing a second Musio perpetual package that was anything remotely close to Musio 1. That was preposterous.

However, now that they’ve made it through a very tough patch — and my sources tell me that they’ve still retained some very talented people — I think there’s a very good chance that they could be producing some very nice high quality sample libraries for Musio. No, I don’t foresee them coming out with full orchestra libraries, but I could imagine solo instruments, quartets or quintets, solo vocalists, pianos, electric pianos, drums, keyboards, percussion, tuned percussion, stringed solo instruments, etc.

I would certainly be interested. If they produced enough of those libraries over even the next few years, I think your gamble could pay off.

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