Reply To: Musio upcoming livestream w/ announcement and Q&A

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On Fleer said

Anyone watched the vid?

What’s the TL;DR ?

I watched some of it. Mike Patti announced third-party developers coming aboard. I don’t know if you’ve noticed my posts about how both 8Dio/SoundPaint and Cinesamples/SoundPaint have been trying to bring third-party developers aboard their platforms, and that is very much the reasoning behind Mike Greene’s attacks on both of these developers, to attempt to scare third-party developers away, scare sample users away, and try to damage the reputations and business of these two competitors. While that’s all clear in Mike’s public posts, my one on one communications behind the scenes with Mike include Mike reaching out to me to attack 8Dio/SoundPaint and its co-founders personally and professionally, acknowledging that he knew that his attacks have included lies about the company and admitting his ethics were not admirable.  He attempted to persuade me to never work with 8Dio and made his case why he believes 8Dio success will destroy the profit margins on sample libraries that they have historically made by “leading the race to the bottom.” Basically, they’re making sample libraries significantly less cost, hurt Mike’s profit margins to the point where instead of coming up with serious competitive strategies, he makes vicious and dishonest character attacks on competitors and even throws out claims intended to scare the market that these companies are in financial trouble in order to scare third-party developers from working with them. From conversations with numerous developers — including some approached by 8Dio and Cinesamples about coming aboard their platforms– Greene has certainly caused developers great concerns about working with these two companies — starting with a concern that if they work with them, Greene will start attacking their companies also.

Consequently, I find this is fantastic news for music producers, that Greene is losing his battle. Some excellent, established indie sample developers are coming aboard Musio’s platform. that is also fantastic news for those who’ve invested in Musio ecosystem. It means these third-party developers are invested in this platform — they have spent the time to adapt their libraries for the platform — or have worked with the Musio team, overseeing their adaptation of their Kontakt libraries to the Musio platform. They’re pitching developers in this video.

The current developers now aboard are SoundIron, Project Sam and Audio Ollie (some other developers are soon going to be available).

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