Would You Give Up Music If All DAWs Went Subscription ?

[goldenanalog]

Of course i'm old, but i actually don't see a desperate need for more.
DAWs are so good these days (actually have been for a decade or even longer) that most stuff is just some luxury that's not at all a requirement for even the highest standards

Of course subscriptions are not the devil, but they usually are more expensive in the long run, unless you are buying everything simply because it's new anyway, which of course is the goal.
Rent to own would actually be an option even for me, but i'm set with my stuff so no actual need for that aswell.

End-user options are always a good thing, and in the case of subscriptions: I see it as a beautiful thing for a lot of music software companies - which of almost none are rich.

With very few exceptions: all of us do this for the love of music; including coders - so any means for these micro companies to legally bring in more revenue I’m in favor of.

The irony of this discussion is that exactly now might be the best time to do subscriptions whilst some are really so cheap: if you can get a full years’ worth of use out of a top-tier company’s ip for 100 bucks or so

[goldenanalog]

I would just switch to Linux and use the free open source stuff . I dont believe it will all go to subscription , I think all companies will sell there licenses for software and then have a subscription based model with added extra stuff . Ex. Like Reason+ and Presonus Sphere .

Agreed.

…as far as I know: none of the audio software companies that I’m aware of who have recently added the subscription option have made it a do-or-die thing: all have merely added it as an option.

If you have any info otherwise: please let me know.

[Jafo]

Heh, subscriptions in a time when most of us can barely afford Internet access at all. A good plan, that.

[BBFG#]

No. I'd just pull out the old Boss 1600 recorder.

[Vortifex]

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[kritikon]

I'm at that stage of life finally when scrabbling around for pennies is no longer a thing. I suspect I'd just hire someone to do the music thing for me. I'd sit in my big comfy chair in my slippers and y-fronts and order a magical music minion about. Having said that - I'm sure I could afford the actual subscription, but in principle I don't like the idea and anyway, it'd be fun ordering a minion about.

[Jkist]

As long as there is a market where people prefer to permanently own their own DAW, there will exist options where you can buy your own DAW. Money to be made, its free real estate.

[kvotchin]

My studio PC would go permanently offline, and I’d continue to use all the software I already *own*.

Not a problem.

[Sindikhate]

My studio PC would go permanently offline, and I’d continue to use all the software I already *own*.

Not a problem.

Wait for that green stuff to gain more control and power and they will not even allow you to use a computer apart from those machines they see fit. Not that they have not said that already... energy prices skyrocket at the moment. Especially on "guinea pig" countries (like mine).

[BONES]

This is of course a theoretical question if we lived in such a dimension or parallel universe... but imagine if that was the case where there was no free software.. I dunno, one might have bought software with crystals on another planet. Maybe there is some world out there where that happens... who knows...

Clearly it would depend on how much they were asking. For $1 a year, I'd subscribe for sure but at $199 a year, I probably wouldn't. More realistically, $9 a month would be OK, $19 would require some serious thought. But the thing is, I wouldn't care if Studio One never got another update so if the subs plan wasn't appealing, I'd just keep using the version I already have.

I recently decided not to upgrade Cubase during their half-price sale, so Presonus would have to offer a pretty good deal to get me to pay for a Studio One subscription. One thing for sure, though, is that I would never, under any circumstances, go back to hardware.

[felis]

I'd go back to how I did it before there were DAW's. Live playing, hardware sequencers and tape.

[replicant X]

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[morelia]

I would. Certainly. Either go hardware or look for a free option to subsist on.

[flori89]

Why are you guys to extremely mad about subscriptions models. How about this question:

Would you stop making music if a nuclear winter happens and all infrastructure is broken and you have to go out every day and fight bears with your bare hands to get food and of course that doesn't work so you have to resort to eating old granny holmes and...

You are making up fictional scenarios and getting enraged about it.

[Aloysius]

How dare you. That's my job.