Musio Just Opened a Sampled Instrument Marketplace

[LinkedMusicians]

For those keeping watch on Musio, this is a good sign. I think Musio would have been wise to have done this marketplace from day one. They now have individual sample libraries for sale for the Musio platform very much like how SoundPaint works. If you don’t own Musio 1, and you’re only looking for individual libraries — they’re A LOT MORE EXPENSIVE to buy this way, than purchasing Musio 1 Perpetual License for $199 on sale, but it’s also cheaper to spend $29 on one library than layout $199 if you’re on a tight budget. Hopefully, they’lll offer an upgrade path.

We already know that Musio had wanted to bring aboard third-party sample developers to their platform. The way they’ve set this up looks a lot like that is still part of their plan. I’d also anticipate that sales promotions for individual libraries are in the future and new sample library releases that are likely to be more on the modest side than huge orchestras. I think it’s also questionable if they’re going to continue discounting Musio 1 to $199 or $149 in the future. Personally, as a strategist, I think it was a mistake to put every library into Musio 1 for that price. It should have had one third or less of the libraries it contains.

@bluescat, as I know you are interested in Musio’s future; I’d love to get your thoughts. I think this is pretty exciting to see and it’s good for the market. Again, I’m sure that they’ll be doing sales promotions for the individual libraries. I really want to see them succeed and to make the Musio player more sophisticated, especially in terms of effects and presets using those effects.

The new marketplace is promoted front and center on their website:

https://musio.com/

Here’s a direct link to the Musio marketplace:

https://portal.musio.com/marketplace

 

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[Brian]

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 +

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[Peter DeLegge]

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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[Fleer]

CineStrings Core $85 and Pro $50 ?

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[GoncaloL]

I think this is great news as it enables them to keep outputing new libraries, sell them and in the future think about a Musio 2 with them. In the end it is the NI model that works great for them, and that are having its followers (see Sonic Bundle UVI, Arturia).

i would be surprised if in this model they keep discounting Musio1 as low as they used to. You cant expect to sell individual libraries for very reasonable prices (as the ones in the marketplace) if then you offer an option to buy almost the full catalog for as low as 125$.

So i see this as great news…if you are interested in Musio 1 and are able to find it on sale somewhere, now is the time i would think

 

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