KVR Audio

Zombie Queen · Post by **Zombie Queen** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 8:36 pm

You can quite often find 3D renderings of product boxes in internet shops, for plugins, samplesets, essentially virtual products, you get as a download only. Personally, I find it quite silly and it's putting me off the product, as plainly stupid. Same goes for 3D advert renderings of virtual instruments, which are plainly two dimensional. But, these keep showing here and there, so I thought, maybe it works for most of people. Does work it for you?

swatwork · Post by **swatwork** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 9:09 pm

Not when they look like this:

Edit: 100 posts!

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 9:17 pm

No it doesn't work for me since I don't buy anything from the net. Google is gathering all these info and yet they don't seem to know that I have never bought anything off of the net and keeps flooding me with ads, especially YouTube.

It seems like a waste of their of their time or bandwidth or whatever to keep doing that. On the other hand maybe one day Google will do know that certain people never buy anything via the internet and then Google will conclude "Advertisers that advertise through us can't sell anything to these people, we should exclude them". Nah, on second thought maybe Google won't do that since maybe the advertisers believe that adverts online do still affect offline buying behaviour.

Ooops the topic is about "3D advert renderings of virtual instruments, which are plainly two dimensional". Yeah it's kind of pretend advertising, pretending to be 3D when actually 2D.

OzoneJunkie · Post by **OzoneJunkie** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 9:25 pm

I'm ok with those virtual boxes, plus they're totally recyclable...

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 9:35 pm

I think they're pretty daft and kind of unimaginative. So many other graphical ideas you could choose from.

And if badly done they look cheap.

I know none of this really matters but the psychology of selling and all that.

The 3d renders of virtual instruments however, I like for some reason...

Hooj · Post by **Hooj** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 1:57 am

I think it's silly too and YES, it does put me off.... I guess they wanna make it 'seem' like you're viewing/purchasing a tangible product.

Zombie Queen · Post by **Zombie Queen** » Wed Dec 14, 2016 8:22 pm

GaryG wrote:I know none of this really matters but the psychology of selling and all that.

Yeah, "psychology of selling", what's scary about it, is that it might actually work, although I refuse to believe it. Deep inside, do people really want more boxes?

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Wed Dec 14, 2016 8:29 pm

I hate the instruments, but the boxes are ok. I think that they're kind of fun when they're a bit wonky, like loopLoft. Surely there is some software out there like knobman that makes this easy? Boxman?

funky lime · Post by **funky lime** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 8:37 pm

Along the same lines: rack mount ears on a plugin GUI. But people can be fooled; would you really trust the accuracy of a hardware emulation that doesn't even look like hardware?

I'm convinced you could take any old vanilla algorithm, slap a skeuomorphic GUI on it, and it will sound better to some people. Isn't that what Antress did?

For instance, I absolutely love MJUC. But I wonder if I would still use it if the GUI wasn't nearly as sexy. Switch to default host UI and some of that magic definitely goes away.

.jon · Post by **.jon** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 9:31 pm

Doesn't put me off unless there are no proper screenshots also available, but is sure is hilarious.

Virtual products in virtual boxes