Yonatan wrote:There is surely a reason why we not yet see that many rompler-instruments as RE, as it is a big investment in time and new learnings, just to get less independent on the market and also less % of the price.
normen wrote:
If you make a Rompler NOT using IDT - which is perfectly possible - you won't get less % of the price - which is basically the point Softphonics was making.
However is it possible to make them without IDT and include expansive key switching and scripting?
I am going to stick to my long time opinion about this.. the 50% ask means props shot themselves in the foot.. barely anyone has gotten in board, only themselves with A-List, Jiggery with Organs, and now Soundiron with the piano. Oops, and Project sam with their very simplified orchestral plugin. So four devs, three not including the maker.. That to me is a terrible statistic and doesn't bode well. A dev just also admitted here they wouldn't use it so as not to give 50% and i truly believe that the vast majority of devs that HAVE checked out the SDK so far, and said "nah", would be due to "not giving them 50% of my hard work". I really believe it is that simple. I think something along the lines of 20% max makes much more sense. It is a format that will help market Reason as a serious contender if used, and propellerheads need to respect the developer's intellectual property. Creating an advanced sample library is painstaking work to put it mildly.
On the flipside and positive side, props have proven that they will do anything to get their formats going.. with the recent price slashing and constant RE bundles and sales.. So i believe they will stick this out stubbornly for a bit longer as they always do, then cave and offer a much better incentive for sample devs to get on board - they kind of
have to, they will have no choice or IDT will simply fade away.