What percentage of us own most of our software but still enjoy visiting Audioz

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  1. droplet

    droplet Rock Star

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    I wonder if there is a sort of music software developer's association. a kind of DLM.

    anyway I don't want DLM to have my address.
     
  2. droplet

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    Thanks. :like:
     
  3. Bitmonkey

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    Spent the last decade getting all my shit legal - feels good to be fair and more importantly for me I can easily patch to the latest version/OS or whatever pretty much without any hassle. Plus when I had a problem with U-he stuff on a new 4k screen with lag their support guys replied back within hours with a fix for it - that's the one benefit of being a proper customer.

    I still definitely grab sample CDs and soundbanks from the sister site though and that's saved me a ton of cash otherwise buying some right shit.
     
  4. mr.personality

    mr.personality Producer

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    Own all my software. Samples, presets and tutorials otoh.....

    Oh, and sometimes the place let's me know when there's an update for some of my stuff, because....
    it must be really hard for companies to send a bloody email to alert their customers . :snuffy:
     
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  5. Zenarcist

    Zenarcist Audiosexual

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    I find physical objects to be creatively more stimulating, so I mostly use hardware.
     
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    I come to the sister site for books mostly. I don't know any other sites with free or paid content that has such an incredible selection of audio related literature. Big thank you to everyone picks out the books.
     
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    This 100% is true for me as well! I completely agree with Oly. I hate most copy protection schemes, but I’m not a thief either. Good developers deserve to earn a living, but I hate being so limited by the majority of “online” activation demands. I do my best to keep my music computer(s) OFFLINE.
     
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  8. Smoove Grooves

    Smoove Grooves Audiosexual

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    Have to buy library stuff I use commercially on tracks. Yet there are always a few fx or eq plugins that are in 'test mode' on my system prior to me buying them though! But I never would have known of the dev if it wasn't for AZ.
    I've even been made aware of a dev through a free plugin on AZ, and then gone on to support that person/s with their paid products.
    Although I always seem to be able to make time to noodle around AS (it's important! My social life! haha), I never have the time to check emails for sw updates or check the retail outlets, so I love that I feel pretty on top of general product releases when I visit AZ.
    Which is at least twice a week.
    Most interesting to me is the constant breakthroughs of the teams, and the info they share to do with the protection scheme that they have overcome.
    Because other than that, I have to restrain myself from trying out plugs or libs that I might have to buy!
    Working as a keyboard player live using shared Kontakt libs is one thing, but once it gets to recording my own stuff for a publisher it becomes another thing! Let alone working for a studio or producer! Always easier to use insts that they own!

    So, in my position, that becomes dangerous if I haven't paid for them.
    Plus I still have tracks from decades ago that I was offerd to sell, if only I could have found and paid for the samples I used on them! :facepalm:
    One only makes those mistakes once. Hopefully when we are young!

    i am happy that AZ exists, and more devs have got my money as a result.
     
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  9. chippy33

    chippy33 Kapellmeister

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    Came to the scene after purchasing an Atari St, purchased a Roland controller, and a Yamaha tone module. Purchased Cubase 6, and now own lots of Waves etc. I would have never been able to purchase my main components without the aid of this site. I still browse and answer when feel able and cannot imagine not being able to visit and interact and browse this hallowed site. I now own every plug-in, vst and daw that I use.
     
  10. eheavy

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    agreed: if the software didn't even make it to Audioz then its probably not worth checking out lol
     
  11. eheavy

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    That is so tru now that i think of it the linking system makes it so easy to discover new stuff and with 1 click you are on their site exploring prices and other stuff in their catalog.... and its like an awsome filter.
     
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    And I still love to sample new products and make an informed decision. Never got Omnisphere or Nexus.
     
  13. Valnar

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    owning most of my software would at this point mean that i was a millionaire pretty much :rofl:
     
  14. LuckySevens

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    You are the only one and anyone else (and of course you) are liars. :rofl:
    I arrived at AudioZ not knowing what to expect. Catalyst was a GREAT help to me and I enjoyed his reverent style. But I initially started to download stuff I needed (as a burgeoning film composer) because I simply could not afford the 2 libraries I needed for the film project I was involved with at the time. It was a God send. Anyway, I was buying everything back then and was hating the fact that most everything I bought was a huge disappointment and I considered most of what I bought a waste of my money because the demos were so deceiving. So many libraries taking up hard drive space that I would rarely use because of the type work I was doing. So... AZ was a perfect testing ground. I downloaded stuff with the intention of buying what I truly wanted to keep and quite honestly (?), I have thrown away 70% of what I downloaded after I deemed it useless. So many libraries become redundant and repetitive. I ended up just keeping the stuff I couldn't afford but buy pretty much everything else because I now work as a professional composer. I've always told myself that I would pay for everything eventually "when I make money from the music I write" but truth be told, you never stop buying the hardware upgrades that it takes to keep a pro studio operational... so, I'm still way behind in buying the libraries that were "too expensive" (namely Spitfire Audio, ProjectSAM and Orchestral Tools)... I still owe them! :woot:
     
  15. I own a lot and I don't own a lot. I have never purchased a Kontakt library. I have bought almost every synth I use. Same with plugin effects.
    Being the Pope I have absolved myself of all sin.
     
  16. The Freq

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    There is only one reason to use a hacked version of any product you can afford to buy.
    When the hacked version works better and has fewer bugs than the purchased retail version.
    Unfortunately, the door swings both ways.
    Some of us work on the trial for 30-60 day period. If I use it all of the time, I buy it. We each have our own code of conduct, that's mine and I don't expect anyone else to feel the same.
     
  17. Clayton123

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    I own probably around 65-75% of what I use. I mainly use Plugin Alliance, Serum, and Airwindows (it's free but supported through patreon), all of which I own, I also use a few Waves plugins and others that I don't currently own, but will buy when I can afford it. I owe my whole musical history to warez, wouldn't have ever been able to start up when I was broke and 16, so now as I've gotten older I'm buying what I use.
     
  18. BlackImpact

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    I own a lot of my software but still come here.
     
  19. realitybytez

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    just as soon as i find a piece of software that is worth the money i'm going to do that too.
     
  20. Haliax

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    I don't mind paying for software, it's when I'm forced to pay each year to use it that I get gnarly. At least IntelliJ offers me a perpetual fallback license, other products should follow suit
     
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