Amigo Sampler - 8-Bit Amiga Style Sampler Plugin

[pinkpantheressin]

Exactly haha just KVR people being KVR people like always they love to complain and be entitled " the plugin is too cheap to have a licence key " makes no sense at all lol

I bought it upon release but C+R for a 10 dollar plugin is a bit far stretched .
It's also a bit ironic since the tracker amiga scene was all about uncleared samples etc...

So if they charged $50 a pop would the plugin then be 'worthy of copy protection'.. Then you can move on to crying about the price next week!

[pinkpantheressin]

Back in the day we had to buy the floppy disks with the software on it too?
A bit of a weird stretch to say that it's ironic.

Your logic would mean that every single sampler plugin should not cost money because a lot of people using samples which are uncleared lol

I bought it upon release but C+R for a 10 dollar plugin is a bit far stretched .
It's also a bit ironic since the tracker amiga scene was all about uncleared samples etc...

[mcbpete]

Back in the day we had to buy the floppy disks with the software on it too?

nah m8, BBSs iniit



.... I never had that luxury as a kid though, and had to make do when it was given free on magazine covers (these three over the years, to be specific)

[Aloysius]

When I was a lad, we couldn't afford magazines.

[mothra]

When I was a lad, we couldn't afford magazines.

Could've been worse. Us Apple kids got free programs in our magazines like A+, but we had to actually type in the code!

[ilchef-potenzadsp]

Hi all, Dario popping in again.

Nice to see people understand what we are trying to do. I understand call and response is not ideal and for me I would love to do distribute the plug-in raw (which is why I do zip files instead of installers) but we’ve got to draw the line when the update goes on torrent sites within hours of release.

As stekker said, call + response will only be once on activation, and a static file generated that authorises that machine. You can authorise more than once on the same machine, in case you delete the license file, and have up to 3 machines.

This is in preparation for update 1.1, which i am very excited to show everyone .

Cheers
Dario

[revvy]

Nice one Dario

Love the merch on your site too. An Amigo T-shirt is pretty tempting…

[shatteredmindofbob]

So, I have a crazy suggestion -- more than one chord in Chord Memory.

I wanted to suggest it earlier, but realized I had no idea how it would work.

Then I saw Meat Beats' Micro Piano, which switches chords using the mod wheel. I'm wondering if something similar could be done in Amigo.

[stamp]

Over the years I've learned that people that download cracked software don't buy software that they can't get cracked. Even if it only costs 1$. Just saying.

[Aloysius]

I was watching a video of some famous producer I've never heard of. He started out using cracked waves plugins. Then he got serious and doesn't use any cracked software now.

I can't agree with your post.

[mothra]

I was watching a video of some famous producer I've never heard of. He started out using cracked waves plugins. Then he got serious and doesn't use any cracked software now.

I can't agree with your post.

I think it goes both ways. You don't see it here because there are a lot of industry players/ad revenue tied to this forum (and Gearspace, etc), so piracy talk doesn't really fly. Other 'indie' forums I visit where its not policed as much, I see entitled jackasses who still have this thought that the software industry owes them something and software is too expensive and should be free, or protection methods mean they will not buy anything and steal anything they can just to spite devs that use iLok or challenge/response, or charge $10 for a plugin, etc..

Kinda baffles me that people are so hardcore into this mindset. Where does any of that entitlement even come from? If I want to go outside and skate, I can be a dick and go steal somebodies skateboard sure, now I just broke the law. Otherwise I still have to pony up and go buy a deck/trucks/wheels/etc.. Santa Cruz never owed me anything and never will. Why is it so different with software? Nobody complains they have to go buy guitars. Sure, Gibsons are overpriced (and my old Marshall has tripled in value hah), but still, nobody seems to mind an entry fee for being a guitar guy..

Maybe eventually they grow up who knows.

[martiu]

i know people that used cracks, liked the plugins and bought them, so the results from piracy vary

[sprnva]

There's also the people who bought the plugins and later couldn't use them when the protection was retired.

The results from piracy may vary but when the challenge no longer gets a response the results are uniform.

[martiu]

There's also the people who bought the plugins and later couldn't use them when the protection was retired.

The results from piracy may vary but when the challenge no longer gets a response the results are uniform.

yes, it is a bad one especially if you want to revisit old projects, that is why serials and key files are the best protection

[MrJubbly]

There's also the people who bought the plugins and later couldn't use them when the protection was retired.

The results from piracy may vary but when the challenge no longer gets a response the results are uniform.

yes, it is a bad one especially if you want to revisit old projects, that is why serials and key files are the best protection

I have so many plugins that use all forms of copy protection. And those that do use online activation, I tolerate as needs must.

However, I always feel FAR more comfortable with developers who offer 100% offline activation methods, whether that be exclusively, or as an alternative to some other online activation and/or C/R methods.

Offline activation, assures me as a paying customer, that even if the worst should happen and that developer sadly need to cease operating, that I should still be able to continue to use my purchased products on new devices even in the future. Whether those plugins would still remain 100% compatible or not as time goes by, who knows? But it's a reassuring feeling anyway as a customer.

I am a Windows user, so perhaps Apple customers may feel less comforted by such offline methods, since their own OS developer has a history of routinely breaking such backwards compatibility with older software regardless, every few years or so, (one of the many reasons I don't use apple hardware/software).