Reply To: Musio Just Opened a Sampled Instrument Marketplace

[peter]

On Brian said

This IS good news.  I am curious how you learned about the update.  Did they send out a press release?  I subscribe to their Discord channel where they had been posting release details, but the last one was around the end of July.  Great idea for them to offer ala carte.  Anything that bumps up their revenue stream is +

Well, Mike had shared (publicly) that they were trying to bring other developers aboard, so I expected that they would move to a sample library marketplace — just like 8Dio does with SoundPaint — but I just stumbled upon the marketplace when I was checking on their site to see if anything new when I was making the post about updates to the Musio plulgin.

The marketplace layout, with Developers listed at the bottom, gives us an indication that they’re still hoping to bring on other developers. Although this rollout doesn’t seem perfect (none of the audio demos were working when I was at the site), it seems a bit rushed; it’s a good sign. I don’t know, with everything Mike Greene has done to sabotage Cinesamples / Musio, if they will be successful in bringing aboard indie developers. Of course, I hope they — and 8Dio / SoundPaint — can overcome the damage done and bring developers aboard. But Musio has a much greater challenge: to produce additional libraries beyond the ones in the perpetual license offering. I think even coming up with pianos, electric pianos, solo strings, and more off the beaten path libraries priced LOWER than existing Kontakt equivalents now available, would be their best shot at success. It does represent that Musio and SoundPaint are transforming this market and have been responsible for helping bring down what Kontakt developers can charge for high-quality sample libraries.

I had an excellent developer say to me that after SoundPaint, UJAM, and IK (PianoVerse), bringing out detailed high-end piano sample libraries that have gone for as little as $10 per piano in bundles, that the market expectation and sales potential of $150+ piano sample libraries changed dramatically. Yes, that is the kind of stuff Greene was battling to stop by making attacks on his competitors, but the fact is, it’s here now. That’s great news for musicians / music producers. It certainly changes things significantly for indie sample developers.

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