Reply To: Rhythmic Robot Holiday Sale – Up to 50% off Kontakt instruments

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On jude77 said

I’m with you on RR.  Like you, the one time I needed support I got it quickly, and generally found them very easy to work with.  Their niche is very quirky instruments that you won’t find anywhere else, so if you’re looking for originality this is definitely the place to start.

It was probably a decade ago that I think there was something I inquired about or something that I double purchased and one of the co-owners responded to me via email and the guy was so down to earth, friendly, and helpful. I’ve been a customer and fan of theirs for a long time, but it’s always great to find that the people you buy from are really nice people. He had shared with me that this was just his and his partner’s side business, that they both had full-time jobs. He was just really open and decent. It was refreshing and I let him know that if I could ever be of help with an idea, to let me know. I love indie developers like that whose work really inspires me. It’s the reason why I’ve helped more than three dozen of them out over the years. My motivation is as simple as, I have this skill set and experience, why not use it to help out the very small, indie developers that make products I use if it only takes me a short time? I still do it, but not as much as I once did. And I am using LinkedMusicians to shine the light on small, indie developers.

For anyone who wonders, I don’t look at indie developers to fund LinkedMusicians or have any plans to do so. I want LM to be a place that holds up talented indie developers (many of them are one or two-person operations, heavily relying on contractors). I’ve only looked to retailers, branded merchandise, and contributions to fund LinkedMuscians operation. Increasingly, forums — like VI-Control (especially VI-Control) — are charging even the smallest developers to share their sales and participate in conversations, while they’re letting aligned, paying developers use employees and contractors pose as customer forum members praising their products while claiming competitors’ products are inferior (every indie developer I’ve talked to is aware of these practices). The result is that it’s getting harder to find honest conversations on forums that aren’t infected by developers and site owners’ sponsors shilling. If we see any signs of developer employees or contractors creating shill accounts here — and over time, I’m sure we will (Impact Soundworks is the developer that I’ve witnessed do this more aggressively than any other developer and that is why they are banned here) — they’ll quickly be weeded out.

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