Reid Rosefelt Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 (edited) https://www.airmusictech.com/cloud? They either give these instruments away, sell them for peanuts, or sell all of them for $50. And then they think people will pay up to $19.99 a month for the same stuff? Who is the market for this? Edited August 14, 2019 by Tiger The Frog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joakim Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 Fixing the installers so users can actually use them would be a good start ... https://getsatisfaction.com/airmusictech/topics/installation-issue-for-all-airmusic-plugins-riser-loom-hybrid-3-etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemar Sain Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 Eeeeeeeverybody is going subscription nowadays. Loopcloud just went sub based Monday. Even companies with limited content are trying to jump on the bandwagon. Not a fan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Shelby Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 6 minutes ago, Lemar Sain said: Eeeeeeeverybody is going subscription nowadays. Loopcloud just went sub based Monday. Even companies with limited content are trying to jump on the bandwagon. Not a fan. Me either....I have ONE, the Slate All Access...that's the ONLY one I'll ever have! And now that S-Gear isn't a part of it, It's really not high on my priority list. However, TH-U Slate is decent enough...that that may keep me on....IDK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vernon Barnes Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 The one I have is EW composer Cloud and I think I get good value as they keep adding quality new content and I find a lot of useful stuff in libraries I would not have bought outright. I bought an air bundle for very little and don't see what they currently offer and their record of new releases would make the sub worth while. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monomox Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Ha this is ridiculous, they haven't updated their stuff in ages. Just today I had to run the Loom installer twice and the same plugin restarted my computer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee D Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 WTF are they smoking? Is this an early April Fool's or something? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reid Rosefelt Posted August 15, 2019 Author Share Posted August 15, 2019 Don't tell anybody I told you, but iZotope is going to give you FULL ACCESS to the Elements series for only $49.99 a month!!! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesse g Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 EEEEEWWWWWW !! I am not a fan of subscription based software. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mesh Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Where do I sign up? (said no one) 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Perpetual license plans for the bundles will still be available for $400 to $700. Yeah, right!!! Glad I already got mine for $70. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 I think they are using this to increase the price of their plugins like PA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wesley Ray Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 I'll still looking for the "new instrument" named Cloud ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 At least their subs are tiered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reid Rosefelt Posted August 19, 2019 Author Share Posted August 19, 2019 I finally looked at this carefully and see that their $699.99 Perpetual License only includes products available at the time of purchase. Any new AIR products will not be included. So the $199.99 per year plan might be a better deal. https://www.airmusictech.com/cloud Or.... you might want to pick most of them up for $50-$75 or so. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bajan Blue Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 I have most of their products - I was one of the (few) people who purchased Sonnivox Muse back in the day - it was based on Gigasampler - Air took them over - and inherited a big mess - my program corrupted, I went to my DVD installation disc and it had gone faulty....so I contacted Sonnivox (Air) and asked just for a new program installation file as I had (and still have) all the content - they didn't have it!!! I think there were licencing issues perhaps. Anyway they really stepped up and as they could not help me with Muse, they offered a load of plug ins etc for free in exchange. Have to say their customer service in this instance was excellent. I use a few of the products, but some do seem a bit on the elderly side to me?? Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 5 minutes ago, Bajan Blue said: I have most of their products - I was one of the (few) people who purchased Sonnivox Muse back in the day - it was based on Gigasampler - Air took them over - and inherited a big mess - my program corrupted, I went to my DVD installation disc and it had gone faulty....so I contacted Sonnivox (Air) and asked just for a new program installation file as I had (and still have) all the content - they didn't have it!!! I think there were licencing issues perhaps. Anyway they really stepped up and as they could not help me with Muse, they offered a load of plug ins etc for free in exchange. Have to say their customer service in this instance was excellent. I use a few of the products, but some do seem a bit on the elderly side to me?? Nigel Actually, AIR and SONiVOX are each owned separately by the parent company that bought them both, InMusic Brands. InMusic Brands also owns Akai, Alesis, M-Audio, and others. https://www.inmusicbrands.com/ I like their plugins, but they really need to show a bit more love to their virtual instruments, instead of just continuing to recycle the same old thing. They had been promising a UI update for the AIR instruments with a new scalable interface for several years. That was according to their marketing rep Simon over at the KVR forum, but nothing has materialized yet. AIR even issued the newer Loom II with the same small UI. I began to lose hope at at that point that updates to the existing instruments were in the works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 The guy who doe the Reaper Blog decided to put out a video using all of their AIR effects in a project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 The bottom line that they are missing by a light year is that subscription licensing is for software that gets updated, for heaven's sake! It isn't for a company known for having come out with very little new in the past 5 years, for selling instrument plug-ins recycled from having been bundled with Pro Tools almost a decade ago at bargain basement prices. When they do come out with a new version of one of their instruments, it seems like the user base are kind of underwhelmed, and they wind up once again blowing it out for $20 in a couple of years. It would be like "subscribing" to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I have it, I'm fine with it as it is, and there's not going to be any new content. This just illustrates how "differently clued" their operation seems. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarine Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 AIEP3 is the new bitcoin. I bought 150 licenses after the subscription announcement. See you at the golf course. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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