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Ambient stuff ........ how bout a piano ? Is there any free/cheap VSTs yet that sound like a reasonable piano or EP or organ ... (please dont tell me crystal .. it sounds like crap .... as do the few other free one's I've tried). I know .... programmers for things like sampletank need to make money too .... I am probably expecting too much .... but one of these days there will be a free VST instrument that really sounds good. Until then, I'll keep toting my triton rack around. >From: "Tony K" <bigtonyk@gmail.com> >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >Subject: Re: OT $1.95 synth! >Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:46:03 -0400 > >First off, Wuskstation is very very nice. Makes nice ambient textures. I >played with the demo and a friend of mine bought it. Good stuff. > >Like Jeff, I think they are a bit off in the marketing. Assuming the DO >manage this, they'd make roughly $300,000. I think they'd be way more >likely to sell 15,000 copies at $20 each. Or 10,000 at $30... but 150,000 >users? I think that's a tad high. But, for their sake, I hope we are >wrong. > >And some music software companies do price their stuff pretty low. >Tunafish >(Brambos.com) is $35, I think, but he's not selling enough to support >himself. Selling software is tough. Very tough. I've worked for enough >startups to know that even if you have a great idea, that's not enough. > >Tony > >On 6/13/07, Jeff Larson <jeff.larson@sailpoint.com> wrote: >> >> >> > For so long I've wondered, "Why don't music software companies price >> > like game software?" Sell many units for less. >> >>Because the size of the markets aren't even close to the same. I >>don't have any hard data, but I'd be surprised if the number of units >>of game software sold isn't at least a hundred times larger than the >>number of units of music software. You can't "make it up in volume" >>if there is no volume. >> >> > How the hell is Mobius free? >> >>I only do it to meet girls. >> >>Anyway, I think the synth is well worth the full price of $99, but... >> > $1.95? A steal. >> >>Frankly I think this is a clever but dangerous marketing gimick. They >>aren't going to sell 150,000 of these. But they may get 50,000 people >>to pay a non-refundable $2 deposit. What happens if only 149,950 >>people pay their deposit. Oops sorry, we didn't make it to 150,000 so >>you lose. If they actually think they can get close to this >>number this is a huge marketing risk that may backfire. >> >>Their analysis of the market size doesn't show much thought. "All in >>all there must be over 10 million VST users around the globe" is just >>a wild guess. But even if we believed that, the VSTi market is >>extremely crowded. Hell there are probably 150,000 VSTi's available, >>half of them free. >> >>A mistake a lot of software developers make (not just in music software) >>is thinking it is all about cost. People are willing to pay for >>quality, but they have to know something exists, and that thing has >>to be somehow different than the things they already own. >> >>I wish them well, but they show all the signs of being a group of >>talented engineers that know nothing about marketing. >> >>Jeff >> >> > > >-- >-==-=-=- >Tony _________________________________________________________________ PC Magazine’s 2007 editors’ choice for best Web mail—award-winning Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_pcmag_0507