Not a deal: Splice acquires Spitfire Audio

[MusicMan]

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Dear Spitfire Audio & LABS family,

We are delighted to announce that Splice x Spitfire Audio (including LABS) are now under one roof. Pioneers in music creation – joining forces to build the future. Richer sounds, smarter tools and endless possibilities!

Splice has become a cornerstone of modern music production and is home to the industry’s highest-quality royalty-free sample catalogue, where one million sounds are downloaded every day by a global community of over 10 million music producers and creators.
 
We want to thank you all for your support: from those of you who have been with us from the very start or just joined us recently. Rest assured that nothing will change to our beloved sample libraries or LABS (both free packs accessible to all and paid packs via LABS+) and we will continue to release new products at the high quality you’ve come to love and expect. Spitfire Audio will continue to be Spitfire Audio.

Spitfire Audio co-founder Paul Thomson and Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava met up in Air Studios over the weekend to talk about what these great companies might be planning to do. You can learn more about their vision for the future of music creation below.

 

https://www.spitfireaudio.com/splice-acquires-spitfire-audio

Edited yesterday at 09:24 AM by MusicMan

[Amberwolf]

Maybe we'll be lucky and they'll go back to the old way of making their stuff work, that was useful and didn't constantly break systems. 

 

Their present way caused me to give up on them entirely because their updates would break things pretty much every time I went to use their stuff, and instead of making music I'd have to troubleshoot things, which was depressing and wasted all my time so I didn't get to make any music.   

 

Since their support would only uselessly say to remove and reinstall and redownload all the many gigabytes of stuff again everytime there was any problem, and they would never fix their actual problems with their stuff, I ended up just removing everything of theirs and now I'm much happier with the tools I already had that "just work".   

 

If they would make it so it just worked locally, no internet connection and no login required, and you just use the version that you already have that just works, no updates or checks required, *then* it would be useful for music.   Otherwise, it's just a headache not worth dealing with. 

Edited yesterday at 05:45 PM by Amberwolf

[kitekrazy1]

19 hours ago, Amberwolf said:

Maybe we'll be lucky and they'll go back to the old way of making their stuff work, that was useful and didn't constantly break systems. 

 

Their present way caused me to give up on them entirely because their updates would break things pretty much every time I went to use their stuff, and instead of making music I'd have to troubleshoot things, which was depressing and wasted all my time so I didn't get to make any music.   

 

Since their support would only uselessly say to remove and reinstall and redownload all the many gigabytes of stuff again everytime there was any problem, and they would never fix their actual problems with their stuff, I ended up just removing everything of theirs and now I'm much happier with the tools I already had that "just work".   

 

If they would make it so it just worked locally, no internet connection and no login required, and you just use the version that you already have that just works, no updates or checks required, *then* it would be useful for music.   Otherwise, it's just a headache not worth dealing with. 

That's a pipe dream. Chances are greater things will get worse. 

So often they get rid of the previous people responsible for coding and a long decline to being obsolete.

I'm sure it will also ignite the sub pandemic.