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Splice | Any subscribers? Reviews? Thoughts? Is there a better alternative?

I've been thinking of getting a Splice account for the sample packs and the rent-a-plugin thingy, and I wonder if it really is a good idea.

What say you?

Absolute best thing that has ever happened since MIDI was invented. Complete game changer. Never looked back. Selection of sounds is grand, even for vocals. 11/10.

The only negative side to it is just a side effect. Your splice folder will have hundreds of folders as you build up, so unless you take action to reorganize your samples in an efficient manner, it will soon be an unnavigable jungle of folders. I'd recommend organizing as soon as you're done with a downloading session.

The Rent to own thing works well as well, gives you a 3 day offline window with Serum, so you only have to make Splice authenticate Serum once per 3 days, and you can produce offline if that's how you work.

Unlike the Sylenth's rent to own system(at this point it is not yet on Splice), where you have to be online 100% of the time.

I'm looking forward to the day when more shiny plugs will be available via Splice.

Well, I'm sold! Creating an account as I type

Thanks, couldn't find a previous topic about it here though, for some reason

Wait, why have I not heard about this dark magic?

Can someone give me the idiots guide to splice? I can't stand these websites that use videos to explain shit, when a couple of sentences would suffice.

It's a DAW sharing platform? Or is it a project management tool?

I would imagine most people use it as a sample subscription tool.

I looked at it for a month (when it was free) and decided that if I haven't already got what I'm looking for in 600GB of samples, pissing more money into the cloud every month probably wouldn't help any.

lol true. To be honest, I need to organize my samples and probably buy a ton more; I think the last ones I bought were vengeance packs. Makes me feel very 2007.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Wait, why have I not heard about this dark magic? Can someone give me the idiots guide to splice? I can't stand these websites that use videos to explain shit, when a couple of sentences would suffice. It's a DAW sharing platform? Or is it a project management tool?

Splice is actually very cool. You can rent to own plugins and even some vst synths (serum,massive,sylenth) It has multiple DAWS to choose from and at one point you could rent to own those as well.
The studio feature allows people to work on a project without having to generate files and send back and forth to another. Since this is client side you can literally work on a project simultaneously from different parts of the world.
The sample library is enormous yet stores all the tones you need via cloud

Seems interesting and probably better for wither people that want to collab remotely, or those starting out that don't know what DAW they want.

I've always done dropbox which while it takes a little organization, isn't too much of a ballache.

The thing I never get about live collab (unless it's producer/artists) is that usually you can't work on the same track at the same time.

Their plugin financing is actually a really good idea. Goes some way into combating the rampant piracy amongst the entitled masses.

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Originally posted by tehlord entitled masses.

I believe you spelled "Millennials" wrong.

I've never really understood the plugin market model in this respect. Just make a demo that only has half the features then sell the real thing for fairly cheap.

If your pugin costs $100-$500 then there's only going to be small number of people that buy it. You make it $20-$60 and people won't bother wasting their bandwidth on finding a dodgy trojan laden version, and if they are willing to go through all that, then they're too much of a miser in the first place to have ever shelled out.

I never got why certain companies couldn't understand they'd sell more (both volume and total revenue), not to mention build better brand loyalty by pricing lower.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN I believe you spelled "Millennials" wrong. I've never really understood the plugin market model in this respect. Just make a demo that only has half the features then sell the real thing for fairly cheap. If your pugin costs $100-$500 then there's only going to be small number of people that buy it. You make it $20-$60 and people won't bother wasting their bandwidth on finding a dodgy trojan laden version, and if they are willing to go through all that, then they're too much of a miser in the first place to have ever shelled out. I never got why certain companies couldn't understand they'd sell more (both volume and total revenue), not to mention build better brand loyalty by pricing lower.

You'd think that was true, but it's not.

Even Reaper has been pirated to remove the nag screen, and so has all the Valhalla stuff. I do a lot of work for KV331 and they regularly have sales on so that you can buy Synthmaster for about $50. He had some kick ass anti piracy code in there but a team still spent three years cracking it and his sales dropped 75% overnight.

People, are cvnts. Entitled, greedy, entitled cvnts.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN If your pugin costs $100-$500 then there's only going to be small number of people that buy it. You make it $20-$60 and people won't bother wasting their bandwidth on finding a dodgy trojan laden version, and if they are willing to go through all that, then they're too much of a miser in the first place to have ever shelled out. I never got why certain companies couldn't understand they'd sell more (both volume and total revenue), not to mention build better brand loyalty by pricing lower.

I think you're probably right, but I wonder much the additional support requests would factor into the price. From a small developer's (e.g., 1 or 2 person shop) perspective, all those extra support tickets could be a huge PITA. Selling fewer licenses at a higher margin would probably be preferable???

I thought this thread had died after I thanked Vernon. Anyway, here's how my first month went:

• Sample Subscription: This is what I use the most, and it's a lot of fun.
  
  There are loads of quality sample packs, and they're all sorted according to instrument, genre, key, tempo, planet alignment, you name it. It's quite easy to navigate, although I tend to press the arrow keys whenever I want to go up or down and this leads to a cacophony of samples playing at the same time.
  
  Also, it comes with its own download software, and it reminds me of the old Beatport Downloader (or whatever it was called). It sorts all your samples in different folders, and it's much more organised than I'd ever be
  
  
• The Collab System: It's apparently a good way to collaborate with other artists. Never used it, but it looks quite handy.
  
  
• Synth Rental: Haven't tried this one yet either, but I've never seen a single person who doesn't like it.

If anyone finds stems for https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/614061716 lemme know!

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Originally posted by Mel David If anyone finds stems for https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/614061716 lemme know!

I don't think that's their thing. You should probably head to Beatport for stems.

Yeah Beatport don't have it & neither do dubious Russian websites. I've been looking for stems (it's the a capella I want) of that track since the ravin' 90s.

Has anyone compared Kick 2 vs PunchBox? Yeah I'm going to try the demos eventually, just want to hear some opinions. Yeah I know the trick of layering samples together to get the sound you want but I'm getting lazy. Also watched a video of Rob Papen's Raw today and that had some seriously good hardstyle kicks in it.

I got Punchbox today and I can't say I dig it as much as Kick2. I think PB is a bit dirtier/grittier, but that's just first impression.

For me, Kick2 has a killer workflow and intuitive envelope control that makes it a joy to use. PB feels a bit clunky.

Thanks for your feedback, tehlord. Lol, to confuse matters more there is actually Punch-BD from Rob Papen as well which has up to 6 layers. Don't know if I'm going to bite--I mean the $ could go towards my future TR8S (or other groovebox). I tend to use presets rather than create my own sounds, but I do try use custom leads or bass to leave my signature.

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