I dont understand why an average media composer will get a bad name for using pirated stuff. Most average people in audio use some cracked stuff. You cannot buy all the things you need. And its not our fault exactly. If you are a game developer, you can have all your software for free, and pay when you make a lot of money. Of course its easier to make money from games and not music. Thats why you have to pay everything in music. Most people are not gonna make any money from music. Also if you work you dont have time to create sounds from scratch. I usually deliver in 2-3 days. There is no time to create sounds. I need to go to the next project so I can eat.

My plan was to stream while working. But maybe its better to start with pre-recorded videos and see how that goes. I dont care about views or an income from streaming. I believe its a good way to find new clients, thats all.

 

Yeah, I believe it was a Future Music "The Making of..." series video where he was using a cracked version of Sylenth. Video is below, and you see at 2:31 that his Sylenth is licensed to Team VTX 2011:

Martin Garrix also got caught with a cracked Sylenth licensed to Team AiR:



As well as Steve Aoki using a Team ArCADE licensed version of SYlenth:



You also had Savant using a Team AiR licensed version of Ohmicide too:

 

I am surprised nobody mentioned him yet. 0:47 - Sylenth1 licensed to "iDONTKNOWWHO"

 

I also believe Kanye West had an open piratebay tab with a logic plugin in one photo. Deadmau5 was tweeting about this, if I my memory serves me well.

 

AFAIK Mr West has to much money and status to monkey around Piratebay....
but see guys, what happened to them? The famous ones with CRACK(ED) STUFF? Nothing. Don't worry, be happy

 

He said nazi things and lots of bullshit. Cracked plugins are just a little part from that huge iceberg that's mr west

 

we all saw his Alex Jones moment, but lets not go off topic. Actually it was a great stream they had, regarding collecting and sampling his voice. Wanna get famous? Sample his voice from that podcast, add some island boys chorus voices and create a bouncy 2 minute techno song about it....release it on tiktok of course....the $$$$ will be pouring in no time. Buy me a bitcoin, at least after you get famous. You're welcome.

 

neva forget

 

He unfortunately passed away. Avicii lived from September 8, 1989 to † April 20, 2018.

 

The damage done by these cracks will echo for generations.

 

Priceless
We should invite to join this thread: good practices when using... bad practices? Wait, that sounded better in my brain...

 

big misconceptions here.. apples oranges and bananas

while you can end up 'looking cool' being a 'star' doing lines, crack, chicks ..even getting shot, that does not translate well to the other side of the industry, like being a studio owner, mix/master eng, film/game music composer. (I'm talking about keeping up appearances, not the reality ofc)

Also every time this Q pops up, we have to dig out poor Avicii. And then Kanye lol ..aren't there hundreds of cases from the past year, since everybody is doing it?

Mind that I personally dislike the practices of most SW companies, I am eternally grateful for the teams to balance their greediness. I usually tried things for about a year, before purchasing. My motto is simply - get the license before publishing (or going public)

 

Or spend a lot more time replacing stuff, including "samples". That Kanye thing probably sold a bunch of copies, and replacing sounds gets very easy with practice.

 

Maybe Avicii or Aoki was part of the team, hidden in plain sight you know.

 

Honestly, mate, I wouldn't be too worried about it.

I've shared a lot of videos of my band recording things and programming, but I never show any of the VSTs that are used, because that is that is the more worrying thing when it comes to pirated VSTs.

I really, really wouldn't worry too much about it. No one is going to know if what you use is pirated or paid for as long as you don't have the VST on screen.

 

Yes but I cannot stream that way. I mean I can by using my second monitor but its not a fun thing to watch if you are into production. Another solution is to use my legit stuff plus a presonus sphere sub. Their instruments are not that great but I believe I can make them work. I do a lot of video game work and studio one instruments are more suited to edm I guess.

 

if "Fun to Watch" is your concern, I am not sure that legit plugins are going to help. Do you juggle or something?

 

I watch music production streams and one of the "fun" part is to see what plugins other producers are using. I am trying to do something that I would enjoy as a viewer. I dont juggle unfortunately.