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They've done this for a long time as have many others. The reason I've never upgraded is the size of the library. Storage space isn't cheap and it's not real expensive either but I read that some avoid libraries because it means upgrading drives. A libraries that is around 1TB is gonna soak you into at $200 reputable 2TB SSD drive.

This seems to be a trend in the software industry. You wonder who is next.

Shouldn't this have its own thread?

Odd to see an EW library on APD.

Not me. With REs and VST there's too many choices. Not all DAWs are quick at scanning plugins. With over 1000 combos of VST it takes awhile. I can even make the quick loading Reaper come to a slight crawl.

One positive about the Yamaha take over is no longer needing a hardware dongle and license 3 machines. To me licensing is the #1 choice in buying software.

Meanwhile those of us loyal Image Line users live in fear our world will come tumbling down. I always liked Studio One because it was easier for people to transition from another DAW.

People also let them have it on Facebook.

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So if you could own just one Fabfilter plugin what would it be?

I view something like this as a money pit once you take out the player that offers midi. I have plenty of these mallet libraries.

They've been selling their own libraries for some time and no their are not any substitute for what you have. Hopefully they don't get the bad idea of leaving out features labeled Pro which only becomes a pro version providing you sub. There's no shortage of perpetual DAWs out there.

Another all in one installer, Eventually these will outnumber my plugins.

I wrote this DAW off because there is no such thing as a loyalty upgrade.

The good thing though is it is an alliance and some developers left. If PA is gone that doesn't leave people left out but at a cost if you want a non PA edition.

Love how disk space these days are intentionally left out of sys req. This is a 40gb piano. I have it.

With all of the mailing lists I belong to there is never a shortage if getting loops for free. How many people get screwed out of something using subs vs. perpetual? The sub model is often all or nothing because they alter a deal without any sense of loyalty. This is happening with streaming services as well. You never know but maybe some of those who produce loops don't like their stuff given away. We've seen 2 developers who left PA because pf the race down to zero.

There's always a risk of buying someone's code and hopefully retaining those people responsible for it. It's rare to have that same staff. There's a lot more turnover than we know when enshitifcation sets. This is nothing new under the sun.

Fixed it for you.

At this rate it's more like do I new to add another one or upgrade to a bigger one.

It gets pricey when you start buying the addons.

I can't think that they don't. Their money isn't tied up in a lot of admin costs. I don't think they do NAMM booths. They probably don't have an extremely large staff. Think of the users who use it casually will always buy another upgrade.

They are good plugins. Once released they rarely have to be updated. The same goes for Waves.

Most DAWs are that way. I get the popularity of Reaper because of all of it's features. FL and Live are quite popular because you can start right away with very little knowledge but once you get past their simplicity FL Studio has they features I have no clue what they are about. I doubt I understand 10% of the features/fixes released in Reaper. Cubase seems to be for the heavy orchestra user but I've seen people use those EDM type DAWs and do the same thing. I also seem trance templates for Cubase. People left Sonar for Cubase because of the superior staff view. It will probably upset a fanboy or two but there's a large thread on Vi Control why they left Cubase. I think there is one for Reaper as well.