Fleer,
Now there's the elephant in the room. Interesting reasoning.
Personally, not ready for subscriptions. Yet. Probably because of an "old" mindset, based on the principle of buying, keeping or eventually reselling. But that mindset indeed is primarily linked to physical objects. Objects you can cherish like old cars, old records, old instruments, all with physical dimensions and a physical relationship with their owner?
Maybe plugins, because of their virtual existence as far as physicality is concerned, force us to rethink this relationship. Maybe, just maybe, subscriptions belong to the plugin world because of its non-physical existence. I'm ready to rethink this, even when I'm not yet ready to subscribe.
You’ve summed up the other side of the argument I also factor in to my reasoning. I’m the same.
I have noticed that the younger generation these days don’t think like us. They’re more into having a light footprint. E.g. a tablet and headphones instead of a big screen tv, huge speakers and full surround setup.
Ableton seems to show clearly their penchant for lightweight, built in plugins over heavy, expensive graphical representations of the original equipment for example.
There’s much merit in it I agree. If I had this lean mindset already I’d waste much less time and money shopping for more and more time actually creating.
It’s hard to change our ‘80s more is always better mindset.
