He also doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut and not alienate his customers - and yeah, I bought BBCSO before I knew he was a massive bellend (as another commenter put it).

As for Gongage, maybe Orchestral Tools?

 

Well, to be honest, TECHNICALLY I didn't. Because R2R has not released it (yet).

It was just a lucky coincedence, that it showed up on the sister site.

Maybe it really is VSL, or something else, we'll see.

I have faith in R2R.

 

I do believe they still have the side dishes like the Albion lineups, more Abbey Road pieces or Hans Zimmer stuff so they won't run out of contemporary customers who buys libraries for the brand and comparison any time soon.

...but come to think of it, if Spitfire's proprietary Player is cracked with the advent of BBC SO Pro now, the others (Abbey, ZImmers) will also come along soon enough, which would eventually hit their sales

 

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Don't know this person. I was talking about Giancarlo, which is a person i know well for the amount of BS on his way of making business. Still, i love Nebula and some Acustica plugins.

 

Oh, I'm sure they will come up with something. Different orchestra, rooms, mics, Luigi sitting second chair oboe instead of third expansion, etc.

 

They choose to do this mostly because LABS was slowly getting deprecated (and now Spitfire was recently owned by Splice with their own new Player plugin "Splice INSTRUMENTS" as well) so they're moving on to use the LABS plugin template to form their own orchestral libraries line-up to gradually move away from their dependency of Kontakt