don't know yet where to start , because you needs to know backgrounds !lingyai wrote:synthmagic wrote:The price is ok when you consider it is a 7GB sample library, plus the expense of hiring the vocalists, studio to record them and the use of top end mics(probably) plus the developer has licensed NI's Kontakt Player which is not cheap, believe me. It costs a fortune to license NI's Kontakt Player, plus I think the dev gets charged for every serial number supplied by NI.Imyself wrote:it is true it sound really nice...
but the price...!!!
It sounds and looks like a really good, useful product.
I have to say I agree with Imyslef. Not that I doubt it's a good product -- the demos sound excellent and the reviews have generally been quite good. Several times I've wavered, and almost pulled the trigger, but even when it's reduced by $100 to $299, it is quite expensive for me. Even assuming it's worth every penny, I just don't have that many pennies for what for me would be only a niche library.
Synthmagic, you have a point, but ultimately the price someone will pay is based on the perceived benefit, not the developer's production costs.
I was wondering whether the developer might consider a modular approach like the one offered by Bela D Media
http://www.beladmedia.com/le-program/
whereby he slices an instrument up into elements which can be bought individually. So here, each of the Ladies could be sold individually. I for one would be much more likely to buy in that case.
unfortunately i did not have a needs for the ladies bymyselves as it is not in my music style , otherwise i had buy them !
the price is definetly ok and correct , look arround for voice and choir librarys and compare the price !
you probably don't know that Mike Greene (or other sample library developer) needs to pay for licensing and encoding the library to NI that it runs in Kontakt Player ! and it depends on how many licenses you need , library size etc etc , and believe me thats really not that cheap ! than add the recording costs , editing , scripting , marketing and other things ! he can't sell it to low comparing to all the costs ! as synthmagic has said it here already !
its also not that easy now to split the library by the ladies , that you have the ladies separately , because the library are licensed as the Full Ladies Library ! he would needs to start to make it new separatly for each lady than you would needs to licensing again each lady to NI when it should run for the Kontakt Player , or he needs to leave the user which don't own the Full Kontakt Version !
to your Bela D statement the LE Versions (Light Edition) are more an teaser Pack which has limitations about the content etc.
its more that you can try the bela d products and if it fits your needs you can upgrade to the Full Version !