Musio 1 perpetual license $125.16 JRRShop

[GoncaloL]

Musio 1 license $125.16 on JRRShop with GROUP code

lowest price ever

https://www.jrrshop.com/cinesamples-musio.html

• This topic was modified 10 months, 3 weeks ago by Brian.

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[peter]

IMO, that’s a no-brainer. I paid $149 US for it during their Black Friday sale and that was an incredible deal.

I’ve written this before — because believe me, when you’ve advised some of their competitors, it’s not like praising them is great for your relationships with their competitors, it’s not. But I’m a strategist, not an influencer. I’ve never sold my right to express my honest opinion like influencers inherently do (that’s how they make their money, by building up people’s trust and then marketing that to whatever brands will buy it) — but IMO, there is no better sample library value on the market than Musio. It’s an insane deal because Cinesamples has a killer catalog with production costs that were already covered years ago (now they just have royalties to the musicians, engineers, and possibly coders/scripters on these libraries).

The one big caveat is that you’re buying all of those great sample libraries in a proprietary player, so if Musio goes bust, those libraries are contained in a player and format that makes them a dead end if the support for the player ends. But, IMO, at this price point — or even for $200 — it’s well worth the risk. I want to see Musio succeed and the prices for high quality sample libraries continue to come down.

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[peter]

Also, it just occured to me, there was no link in the OP. Here it is:

https://www.jrrshop.com/cinesamples-musio.html

It’s on sale at other shops like Best Service for $149 US. So absolutely, JRR is the best price going, the lowest price I’ve ever seen on Musio 1.

https://www.bestservice.com/en/musio_1.html?aid=ZBgL2roqVxRSujmR

The sale ends May 27, 2025.

• This reply was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by peter.

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[Brian]

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.

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[peter]

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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[Fleer]

Dang. Dang. Dang.

[Fleer]

Yup. Couldn’t hold it any longer. Thanks @GoncaloL, great find.

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[anxiousmofo]

Shucks. Took me only about a half hour of the free trial to succumb. Great sounds.

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On anxiousmofo said

Shucks. Took me only about a half hour of the free trial to succumb. Great sounds.

Tangled roots perplex her ways.

Yep. I started with the trial, but I made it 7 days and even recorded a cover song that I shared during that time, because I was so blown away at how good it was and the incredible deal it represented.

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[peter]

The Musio 1 perpetual license deal ends in 3 days. @goncalol found a surprisingly great deal at JRR shop (I wouldn’t have expected that they would discount so heavily on something that is already heavily discounted; I paid $149 US for Musio 1 and still think that was an amazingly great deal).We have affiliate relationships with Best Service and Plugin Boutique, which are both selling it for $149 US, but with JRR selling it for $125.16 US, I won’t even put up the links to those other shops. Buy it at JRR that price. At $149, it was easily the deal I’ve ever gotten for a sample library collection. The fact that people can now pick it up for $125.16 — it’s a no brainer, if there ever was a no brainer for sample libraries.

I became a fan after doing a 30 day free trial (they’ve cut them down to 7 days, I believe). If you’re on the fence, I would strongly recommend the free trial, which you can find at the Musio website (no credit card is required):

https://musio.com/

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[peter]

@goncalol found the best deal ever for Musio 1 perpetual license. I own it and it’s a fantastic deal. If you were thinking about this deal and still haven’t pulled the trigger, it ends tonight.

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[thesteven]

now $399
$335.16 with code GROUP

[peter]

On thesteven said

now $399
$335.16 with code GROUP

Best Service — linked above (I’ll also link to it here) — has Musio 1 for $199 US. I have no idea when that will end.

https://www.bestservice.com/en/musio_1.html?aid=ZBgL2roqVxRSujmR

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[Teebacca]

Best deal in the biz

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[peter]

On Teebacca said

Best deal in the biz

I look at it like this, Cinesamples and 8Dio / Soundpaint are greatly bringing down prices for high quality, sample libraries to a fraction of their historical prices. I really want to see these developers succeed in doing this, because of its impact on making these tools more accessible for musicians all around the world, many of whom found the prices of similar libraries far beyond what they could afford.

And this is super important to me. Going back years ago, I would give small developers a limited amount of free consulting if they would provide free sample libraries to people I identified at KVR. I basically leveraged my notoriety in the marketing profession at the time to give developers I love advice in exchange for doing good.

I was refusing NFRs at the time (I was employed at global brands then; these days, I couldn’t afford to do that anymore; and I didn’t want to let the world know I was helping a bunch of devs for free back then). Very candidly, it made me feel connected to music again after a repetitive stress injury forever ended my ability to perform as a musician. I shared this story at Cakewalk Forum and the MusicSoftwareDeals guy basically called me a liar. Greg S. can confirm that. I ended up doing paid consulting for him, but I started out as a Orange Tree Samples superfan not asking for any payment, but I wanted him to give low-income musicians in exchange for my consulting. I found Greg and I shared very similar values and ideals.

Now, I look at what these two companies — Cinesamples / Musio and 8Dio / SoundPaint are doing — and both companies have been attacked by the same competitor/forum owner who has been on a mission to try to see them fail in lowering prices for their category. They’re, of course, not lowering prices for altruistic reasons, they see a huge market opportunity, and they’re right. If they succeed, it will certainly lower the prices for high-end sample libraries and make them more accessible, and it will result in more competitors bringing down their prices. These are market disruptors. But it’s not like the effects plugin world where Waves led the way in bringing down prices and most of their competitors followed. Most of the high end (deep or detailed sample library) developers have not brought down prices to be in line with Musio and 8Dio. I know that a lot of their competitors do because it means sample libraries’ profit margins will be significantly less. Sample developers will need to sell much higher volumes to make the same profit. But with the market’s growth, I think the potential is there, and it’s a great time for this to occur. Indie sample developers who are savvy can adjust prices and win more market share. I hope that is what will come, because it will be fantastic for hobbyists, semi-pro, student musicians and any musician on a modest budget.

The flipside? If these two players were to fail, it would send a message to the rest of the market to keep prices high. Consequently, I believe it’s in our own best interests — and I’m speaking to those on a limited budget who aren’t heavy-hitter pros — to support the sample developers who are bringing prices down.

PSA over!

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