A sad day for Spitfire Audio

Discussion in 'Industry News' started by Pavel Kica, Apr 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM.

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Do you think this will turn out well?

  1. Sure

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  2. Dunno

    25.0%
  3. Nope

    68.8%
  1. ELJUNTADERO2022

    ELJUNTADERO2022 Producer

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    yes, thats the way
     
  2. clone

    clone Audiosexual

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    I think many of you are a little crazy in saying you would have made a different decision. In fact, the only one less detached from monetary reality is Splice. Spitfire's customers will probably find elsewhere to buy their sample-based instruments. That's why they have him saying he is "staying". They hope the customers will stick with him out of loyalty or some silly idea like that. But really, he is probably just going to be there for a "transition period" of whatever length of time.

    They (Spitfire) as a company, are selling software, computer files, and tech support. Staring down the barrel of AI in an unpredictable situation.
    That company could be worth nothing in a few years, and no-one can concretely know otherwise. Whatever they walk with after taxes is guaranteed money in the bank. Sure, they probably have some ironclad no direct compete clauses; but they will likely not prohibit doing any, and all; other work in music or software engineering.

    Let's just say, to use a number; every license Spitfire sells is an average of $300. To make that $50 million on sales, that would be 166,000 licenses to sell. Good luck with that.
     
  3. Lemonhead714

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    I thought by the title that they were going out of business or splitting up like Tonehammer did. Nah, just cash that check and walk away.
    I mean how bad could an aquisition be? Opcode anyone?
     
  4. Bird Jones

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    Lots of people in this thread won't care about Spitfire....
    But for those of us who do... @SpyFx ✪ ✓ ....
    You just ran like a God with those screenshots...
    I have seen the Lord of Libraries, and his name is SpyFx.
     

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  5. ddpp

    ddpp Noisemaker

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    I used to use Labs but it was buggy and always lost connection to the libraries I had downloaded. Wasn’t worth the hassle.
     
  6. Smeghead

    Smeghead Audiosexual

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    50 million? Seriously? Fuck me sideways.
     
  7. shinyzen

    shinyzen Audiosexual

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    Totally unrelated, but Im looking for investors in my startup, called SpliceFire. With the help of AI, we create pristine sample libraries from lost and found samples found on my hard drive. Asking for 100 million initial seed round. LMK.
     
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