dorme1> what's wrong with hobbyist level stuff if you're not a pro?
You could mean hobbyist as in "price barrier to entry/evaluation/participation" or hobbyist in orientation and quality. I can very much relate to the former, since I wanted to experiment with a couple of performance instruments before going "whole hog" and investing heavily in the company. Hobbyist companies have the habit of promising you the moon, and you find out after investing that you have yet another trinket that just isn't useful for serious work. It adds up over time. I am past the point in my life where I'm willing to be jerked around by companies that sell toys in the place of tools. So if VSL is now willing to sell smaller instrument packages or even a la carte, I think a) hobbyists and pros can now both be happy, and b) VSL's revenue will increase because once composers can get these instruments/samples in-house and beat on them, they'll realize what they've found and will buy as much as then can afford as soon as they can.
As I said before, there's a whole world of hobbyist products. (I'll go further: hobbyist products are responsible for the low quality of music software world-wide.) Nothing is lost if VSL doesn't descend to hobbiest developer-ville. Everything is lost if they do.
Name a historical composer who wouldn't have traded at least one body part to be able to buy VSL as we can. Don't let what VSL has become, become history.
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You could mean hobbyist as in "price barrier to entry/evaluation/participation" or hobbyist in orientation and quality. I can very much relate to the former, since I wanted to experiment with a couple of performance instruments before going "whole hog" and investing heavily in the company. Hobbyist companies have the habit of promising you the moon, and you find out after investing that you have yet another trinket that just isn't useful for serious work. It adds up over time. I am past the point in my life where I'm willing to be jerked around by companies that sell toys in the place of tools. So if VSL is now willing to sell smaller instrument packages or even a la carte, I think a) hobbyists and pros can now both be happy, and b) VSL's revenue will increase because once composers can get these instruments/samples in-house and beat on them, they'll realize what they've found and will buy as much as then can afford as soon as they can.
As I said before, there's a whole world of hobbyist products. (I'll go further: hobbyist products are responsible for the low quality of music software world-wide.) Nothing is lost if VSL doesn't descend to hobbiest developer-ville. Everything is lost if they do.
Name a historical composer who wouldn't have traded at least one body part to be able to buy VSL as we can. Don't let what VSL has become, become history.
dot