I wonder if there's any OF "model" stopped releasing nudes because someone leaked her content and complains about how she's losing subs

 

Maybe it's good idea to postpone new releases, rethink his current prices now when everything is already shared, some stuff don't even have proper skin, while being legacy (with legacy faults) and still cost the same as his newest stuff, dunno, if there wasn't azzimov, doubt I would even bother with many.

Nebula is clearly abandoned, this is probably all that is going to be and it's niche as it get's, we can keep it alive with supporting 3rd party developers and using k'd version, but right now even he have doubts that he will continue, so it's kinda of dead end.

So yeah, maybe he could start a Patreon, let people support him even with 5 bucks a month, it's better then nothing.

 

Try this one out then. Maybe it is not Giancarlo trying to harm third-party producers of these libraries, expansions, profiles, IRs, or whatever else they might be callled.

Maybe it is any one of the companies who aren't fooled by the old tactic of placing an unlicensed product harming their brand somehow.. Manufacturers have never thought tactics such as branding products with silly changed names such as "Neev" are some way to do anything other than rip them off. Maybe it is some software vendor like UAD who pays "Neev" licensing fees for every plugin they sell, and people not paying licensing fees driving down all their prices. Let's not forget there is an entire website full of people called Gearspace that may not like hearing the entire internet plugin "community" trying to tell them what their hardware sounds like after paying for expensive stuff.

There are a lot of people who do not like anything related to Acustica, for those very same reasons. People who would like nothing more to put any nail they could into the Giancarlo software wooden box with his company name painted on it.

Maybe what these guys do is hard work. But the recent thread about DicksoDSP would probably have a different tone if the dsp56300 emulators were being made for profits. What they are doing is definitely way more work, as you can see in the difference in release numbers. They have done under 10 emulations, for free; and these third-parties seemingly crank out these things 10 at a time and for profit.

Nebula could disappear tomorrow and it wouldn't matter to me a single bit, in either direction. It's a CPU hog I don't need. However, I can appreciate the irony of the entire music production world being anti-AI because it's music people didn't even make; meanwhile telling everyone how great their music sounds through gear they have never even seen before sounds. It's all fantasyland anyway.

 

Who says sales dropped because of piracy? I think its more likely that sales are dropping because Nebula is basically abandonware, and with all of the shifts in music technology right now, its clunky and cumbersome in comparison to the newer tools available.

And this is coming from a someone who has a legit license for Nebula 4.5 and has purchased numerous Acustica products over the years. I been a fan of Nebula since version 3. Nebula libraries sound great, but its always been niche. I can't imagine with Acustica's lack of support that anyone expected to make a boat load of money from Nebula libraries in 2026.

 

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I do feel for these nebula library creators, but there are so many more factors at play that others have mentioned.

I would never buy any of these libraries anyways, even through they outperform Acustica native plugins, because of how dogshit the UX is with Nebula.

1 EQ band per instance without a custom skin being made? In 2026?

The biggest issue is being tied to an Acustica product that is basically abandonware. Basing your business model on Acustica is nearly a death sentence imo, even worse it's a proprietary software/technology that Acustica refuses to improve.

Like starkid84 said, I own legit Nebula and have bought many Acustica plugins. I wholly regret spending any of my money on Acustica stuff.

If AlexB or TimP were able to develop their own plugins that have the same sound quality as their nebula libs, but with an actually good UX, and no association with Acustica, I would absolutely buy them!

Other companies are using hardware curve sampling technology now, correct? And I don't mean just clowns like Tone Empire.

 

I love Nebula but i gotta agree it's a niche. I don't see any high tier pro audio producers (i mean people really rich and hyped) using Nebula libs. Or they use normal plugins or they use HW. Or they are happy with normal DSP or they aren't, so they will pick the HW if that's the case. Nebula it's a great way to get a vibe from the hardware at the cost of a horrible install process, bloatware and CPU costs and only people who are geeking more than balling will use it.

I mean, not even Giancarlo supports Nebula anymore. If it was business i bet he would want a piece of the cake. And i agree Nebula libs are expensive for what they are in fact. Not everyone it's Henry Olonga, who sampled hundreds of HW and give it for free under donation. AlexB seems to be really passionate about what he's doing, but sometimes it's hard to accept things on what they really are.

I saw Nebula libs being shared on the sister site, and at the same time, a huge amount of Nebula threads being created here in a way that never existed before (i used Nebula before this release wave, and missed those threads here). Maybe with more people using it, people on pro audio start paying attention for it and putting real money on it. Or they already know it and don't give a damn. Mixed feelings about this one.