Splice rent to own Serum plan, what do you think?

[chk071]

The price on Xfer's website?

[waltercruz]

The price on Xfer's website?

$189

[Guenon]

The price on Xfer's website?

Yeah, the full retail price. Duda explains it on the video:

Sounds really nifty, actually.

[chk071]

Thanks guys. Well, that's quite a nice offer then. Hope they add more synths in the future. A price like that is often pretty steep, if you're a hobbyist like me, but, as a monthly payment or so, why not?

Btw, Steve Duda is a great person, i really like him. Very friendly, objective and intelligent guy.

[Numanoid]

maybe even a game changer, would be nice if this catches up with more devs, newcomers these days would have really good thing going on fast, get few essential things, make music all the time with them.

Kind of weird, I remember a thread in the market place a year ago or two asking about such a possibility, and then more or less everybody thought such "pay in installments" options would fail or not catch on.

I guess times change.

[Numanoid]

Thanks guys. Well, that's quite a nice offer then. Hope they add more synths in the future. A price like that is often pretty steep, if you're a hobbyist like me, but, as a monthly payment or so, why not?

Yeah, trackspark is $2.24 a month, so the difference aint that big.

I might as well put my money getting a decent plug instead...

[ere2learn]

Hm, this sounds brilliant. But how many payments do i have to achieve to finally own Serum? Not much "hard" info on that website...

19 x $9.99 (minimum) or you can pay any amount over $9.99 you want any month,to pay for it faster

[Zexila]

maybe even a game changer, would be nice if this catches up with more devs, newcomers these days would have really good thing going on fast, get few essential things, make music all the time with them.

Kind of weird, I remember a thread in the market place a year ago or two asking about such a possibility, and then more or less everybody thought such "pay in installments" options would fail or not catch on.

I guess times change.

Yeah, we will see, as Steve says in the video, everybody wins here, he wants people to own it and this just reflects that, no catch, just chance for everyone to get it eventually and use it all the time before that happens.

[musikmachine]

What's next: Rent-a-plug ?

Already here - http://www.slatedigital.com/monthly-everything-bundle/

I'm in a position to buy plugins now, if things changed i'd try and raise enough money to pay it off. In fact i might pay the $9.99 for a few months then pay of the remaining balance.

Excellent way to buy plugins with a high entry point IMO but of course use your discretion.

[Guenon]

Kind of weird, I remember a thread in the market place a year ago or two asking about such a possibility, and then more or less everybody thought such "pay in installments" options would fail or not catch on.

Haha, yep. Their basic premise was, it would be too much hassle for the developer/company offering the payment model. Seemed weird even back then. As this is basically just a standard subscription model (which is already being done successfully), with the added benefit of "okay, you get to own the full license after you've been on board for this long", I don't see the problem, really. Win-win, as they point out.

It's nice to see this being tried with something like Serum, as it's one of those synths with a relatively high retail price and a large amount of potential buyers. I hope it works out.

[chk071]

This is very different to a classic subscription model for me. In the way that, in the end, you actually own the product, and don't "rent" it. If a model like this is the way to go, then, yeah, better sooner than later. But not a subscription model where you pay $100 in a year, and after that year, you lose every right to even use the software again. And what i find more than fair is that they don't even charge you more than the retail price. I can only support such a business model.

[Guenon]

This is very different to a classic subscription model for me. In the way that, in the end, you actually own the product, and don't "rent" it.

Yes, that's what seems so cool about it . I don't like those 100% rental type subscriptions, myself. But on the logistics side, this can be handled in the same way as a subscription one, the only difference is that they send you a full license after your n:th payment (or, in other words, after you have been subscribing for a certain amount, total).

[Numanoid]

But what happens when the plug goes from v1 to v2, which often happens ?

And what if that v1 "legacy plug", after v2 has superceded it, should not work on the next major OS upgrade (either Win or Mac)

Even though you own that v1 plug you will have problems using it, so one will have to sign on again to get the v2 version to stay up to date.

Selling Serum v1 will not be that easy either, as the next owner will be stuck with it for life (NFR)
https://www.xferrecords.com/general/top ... e-transfer

[mhog]

I don't like it, or perhaps I don't understand it. I mean, "hire purchase"? Isn't this kind of payment aimed at things like a car or a house, or at least (musically speaking) a grand piano, a 10,000$ Stratocaster and such? Why should one pay in installments a 200$ piece of software?! What is the point?

[Zexila]

This is very different to a classic subscription model for me. In the way that, in the end, you actually own the product, and don't "rent" it. If a model like this is the way to go, then, yeah, better sooner than later. But not a subscription model where you pay $100 in a year, and after that year, you lose every right to even use the software again. And what i find more than fair is that they don't even charge you more than the retail price. I can only support such a business model.

Yeah, it would be neat to have more DAW devs. doing this, even for cheaper offerings, why not, you want to switch eventually, but want to use that DAW in meantime fully to really be sure.