Well, I am not privvy to the specifics of either licensing process, only going on what others have told me, therefore I bow to your superior knowledge on the subject, but have to ask why UVI licensing should have to be more favourable than NI?EvilDragon wrote:Not quite true. UVI only allows you to order a smaller number of licences (NI is minimum 500 IIRC). When same number of licences is taken into account, the price is pretty much the same, or even bigger for UVI. I guess you could make a deal with either NI or UVI to cut you some slack, but what I heard from some developers that were asking around for UVI licencing, they were (unpleasantly) surprised, because they expected more competitive pricing than what NI offers, and they didn't get it. So...Failed Muso wrote:From what I hear, NI's licensing jackboot is bigger than UVI's
If I have bought a library for Kontakt format, I expect it to work in either the Player or the full app itself. I appreciate dev's like Steve who put the disclaimer on about the demo mode but one has to ask why Steve hasn't succumbed to NI's Player demands.EvilDragon wrote:You are MISSING a point. There's a clear distinction between Kontakt library and Kontakt PLAYER library. UVI library is equal to Kontakt Player library. Anything else that isn't an UVI library can ONLY be opened in MF3, and this is equivalent to non-Kontakt Player libraries for which you must have full version of Kontakt. Gotcha?
For example, if Hollow Sun were to go UVI/MF3 way, because of (pretty high) licencing fees for UVI Workstation we couldn't do an UVI library, so you would need to have MF3 to use them - so it would be the same case as with Kontakt right now.
As I said, I know of no UVI format library that doesn't work in the workstation. That may change, but right now, if I buy UVI format content, it works in both apps. This cannot be said of Kontakt format library.
Anyway, we have deviated FAR from the OP, so I'm going to digress. I have the rest of Vintage Legends to work through for my review and I also have Gospel Musicians "Pure Sine" library to review too.
Merry Xmas!