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Looks like Notability is going to reverse their previous decisions👇
More info on Macrumors
Some subscriptions make some kind of financial sense, for example, Reason + on desktop. Whilst I personally won't be subscribing I can see the advantages in that you access to a shit ton of content immediately and you also get new stuff added constantly. At least they still offer the old license system to (for now!).
Pluginalliance on desktop offer similar deals, pay a monthly fee to have access to more stuff than you could ever use. Again, not for me, but you can see the 'value' in that it would cost a lot more to gain access to all the same stuff if you're buying licenses.
But some companies just want a subscription for a simple, single product where you're basically paying maintenance. why would anybody want that? Where's the return for the investment? There's no logical explanation for why you're paying a repeat cost when you're receiving nothing tangible in return. Especially when you compare it to what you get from the big companies charging subs.
If you are not getting a reasonable amount of new content regularly, or receive a service that incurs obvious costs (such as cloud storage), where's the value proposition?
People on this forum are frequently saying that prices of iOS audio apps need to rise to remain viable, yet every time a developer release an app for more than, say, a tenner there are complaints galore. (Search for comments on SampleTron 2 for example).
If we continue to only buy apps for 99p when they're on sale, our favourite developers aren't going to survive. But there needs to be a reasonable middle ground. I've got screens full of 99p apps that I've never used, just because they were so cheap expecting maybe to find a use for something one day... But I'd never have bought those same apps at full price, let alone at a reasonable price. If prices start rising, a lot of the indies won't benefit. The amount of money I will spend will probably remain the same, but on far fewer apps (and those apps will not be impulse purchases).
It's fairly obvious that the average consumer can only tolerate a certain number of subscriptions a month. I doubt that enough people will back your average Indie developer with a subscription to make much of a difference to them. My guess is that a lot of subscriptions will just be used as paid demo versions. People will cancel immediately and any extra income will often come from people that forget to unsubscribe in time. Especially when people see that the amount they're spending adds up to a lot more than they'd be paying for, say, Reason+ which would give them far, far more value proposition in return.
In summary, I think that if the audio industry all adopts subscription models, the outcome will suit the biggest companies even more than the current situation, and Indies will struggle even more to survive because we'll just choose who to subscribe to and will get very little additional stuff.
I'm not sure what the answer is. Perhaps a sensible approach would be for all audio app developers to just start charging a little bit more. Boil the frog type increases. But that's probably a bit idealistic...
Personally, I won't subscribe to apps if I can help it. I pay a mortgage rather than rent my house. I don't lease cars. It's not just software I don't want to rent. YMMV.
I think if the were a Setapp for ios music apps it might have a chance of succeeding. When you're getting access to 100+ apps for $10 a month it makes sense as long as there's quality control as there is with Setapp. Setapp currently offers 228 desktop and ios apps as part of their subscription. I use it mainly for desktop apps as the iOS app coverage isn't as substantial as their desktop offerings. But there are many essential desktop apps that have a partner iOS app so I think of it as a bonus when you get both.
I must admit I wouldn't subscribe to Apple Arcade or Apple TV+ individually but the family premier subscription for up to 5 family members for a single £30 a month made a lot of sense. Apple News+ is one of my most used apps but that's another that I hadn't really considered as an individual subscription.
Companies that are able to aggregate value across their portfolios such as Adobe and Apple succeed with their subscription offerings. But individual music apps asking for $10 a month, that's a definite no from me.
This sounds interesting so I tried to visit the setapp website on my android phone, just to see what apps they offer. Well, I can't. They wouldn't even let me open the website, in a bloody browser, from another platform:
This is silly. Don't be like Setapp.
Just got the Synthmaster one and 2 bundle for £2! As I already have Synthmaster one, not sure if this is a sale price but an absolute bargain.
That bundle is not showing me any discount at all for 2. Strange!
Bought Notability and the Handwriting Recognition IAP the day before they switched models. Damn! Rollercoaster ride. 😂
Setapp's iOS lineup isn't that great, though if you were a Ulysses subscriber it would be worth thinking about. But for desktop it's just stupid value; as well as the big beasts like Ulysses, Espresso, PDFpen, Hype and Whisk, Keysmith, Trickster, TextSoap, AnyTrans and AnyDroid, Default Folder, Screens, RapidWeaver, PDFSearch (the poor person's DEVONthink), and ChronoSync (Express only, but it's still phenomenally powerful, especially if you pony up $14.99 for the non-included ChronoAgent speeder-upper), it has three of the really big arguments for subscription services:
Not a lot of music apps at the moment, though (just the desktop version of n-Track Studio). Here's the iOS lineup for what it's worth:
Sweeeeeet!
You can see Setapp on your Android device. I've just been browsing it on my P30 Pro.
The plans are all about the Mac by the looks of it. £10pm for a single Mac. £13 for ipad and Mac and more than that for more than one Mac. Is it possible to subscribe for a single ipad instead of a Mac?
Thank you for this helpful PSA. 🙏
Are you in the UK?
No iOS only subscriptions as the iOS lineup isn't as good as the macOS applications (apart from things like Ulysses where you get both desktop and iOS). But for macOS, it's crazy good value.
I believe the long-term aim is to grow the iOS side of things but iOS apps are approximately a tenth of the price of macOS applications so the revenue share model is probably a lot harder to justify to developers that are already finding things hard. But the Setapp business model is all about volume. I know a number of the macOS developers with applications on Setapp as I've been using their apps as long as I've been using Mac's and they say the numbers add up.
From where? iOS only or also desktop?
IOS, Don't use a Mac or Windows for music production.
Holy cow! Earth shattering Animoog update! Files integration!
I checked the App Store and the bundle was something like $24. I already own both, so any deal at this point does not matter to me, but I’m wondering where you see such a deal.
If you don't already own Synthmaster One or Synthmaster 2, you can buy them both together as a bundle for the same price as Synthmaster 2 (£21.99 here in the UK). I get the impression that it's simply smart marketing by KV331. Bundle the two synths together for the same price, so as to sell as many preset IAPs as they can during their 40% off promotion that's running till the last day in November.
I guess @Sandstorm must have mistyped. They typed £2, which obviously cannot be correct.
Lurssen Mastering Console 50% off IAPs
https://www.ikmultimedia.com/news/?id=LursseniOSSale2021
Yeah €20,50 to complete the bundle here in the Dutch store, but of course it depends on what you paid for the Synthmaster 1 to start
Based on what I saw and heard on Soundcloud just a few days ago (if you have an account there, just look at their Dolby Labs mastering option for your music), I have a feeling all sound engineering and mastering software will be completely replaced with machine learning algorithms which will create a perfectly mixed track for you no matter what you throw at it very soon. We'll soon be able to describe in general terms what we want and the 'pro engineering' software will do all the heavy lifting. This is an inevitability and I'm looking forward to it.
It is indeed correct and I didn't mistype. I did pay full price when I originally purchased Synthmaster one so maybe that is the reason I got it for £2.
I’m in the US, already own 1. I’m not seeing any discount in the bundle at all. They want $25 for the bundle, same price as for 2 alone.
Does this mean we can now load 3rd party patches in ios, without needing a computer?
Yes, if the *.wav files are properly formatted they will load just fine
Put the wave-folders into the 'categories' folder.
1 was free last year when covid first hit if I remember correctly. If you got it then, then you will not see a discount.
I’ve had it for four years or so I think. I believe I paid.
Bleass Granulizer is $3 off at $4.99
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bleass-granulizer-auv3-plugin/id1540299083