Spitfire Hearth and Hollow - Folk Accordion

[cclarry]

$79 intro price

https://www.spitfireaudio.com/en-us/products/hearth-and-hollow-folk-accordion

[Amberwolf]

Is that a different version than this one?

 

[cclarry]

7 hours ago, Amberwolf said:

Is that a different version than this one?

 

Someone at Spitfire must have their wires crossed...IDK

[Amberwolf]

8 hours ago, cclarry said:

Someone at Spitfire must have their wires crossed...IDK

That surprised me not one whit, given their "support" back when I tried to use their stuff, and at every "update" it would break everything, lose all my sounds (some permanently as they just randomly took stuff off the "labs" after having provided it for free and wasting everyone's time in creating art with it that they then couldn't continue with), force me to waste my limited internet with redownloading everything every time, and have absolutely no idea why their stuff always broke like taht and zero interest in fixing it or in not taking away things they'd given us, or in improving their UI instead of degrading it every time they changed it.... 

Eventually I gave up and took it all off my system since I could never be sure it would still work or have the sounds I had integrated into my projects, or be able to make them work in the same way that they had when I started using them. 

And no, I'm not bitter.   

[Cookie Jarvis]

All my Lab libraries work fine....the problem was at some point they changed how they stored the libraries on hd. If I recall originally each had a folder with a sample folder and an instrument folder inside. When they changed they split the Sample and the Instrument files to 2 different locations. I just moved all my old libraries to the new locations and they all showed up including the original Lab instruments I had purchased! I haven't changed to the Splice version of Labs, I'm a musician so no loops for me!

[Amberwolf]

Too bad they have no idea that they did that, or how it might be fixed, so that they could tell me how to fix their screwup.   

 

And they must have done that kind of thing multiple times in different ways to break every sound every single time they updated it over the couple of years I suffered thru their dwindling usefulness and stable inability to help their customers.     

 

They are one of the many reasons I won't use software that has to "log in", or web authorize, or force updates, etc etc.   If I can't just download it, and put in the serial number, and use it, whenever I need to, I can't depend on it, and while if it's free I might use it on a whim, I wouldn't use it in a project, other than to generate some audio files and then remove it from the system before it's company creates problems for me, like all of these types of things always end up doing.   

These programs exist to help the artist--anything about the program that detracts from that, takes away time the artist could use to make that art, or actively destroys the art-in-progress like Spitfire did for me, makes them negatively useful.

Any company that doesn't actively take the side of the artist in every situation where a conflict of function comes up, doesn't change the program to fix the issue, is usually causing the artist problems, and isn't helping the artist.