Propellerheads RE format not transferrable
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- Banned
- 18651 posts since 2 Oct, 2001 from England
For some devs its not a lot of time and effort to convert products already available to RE's, and as Reason has a pretty big pool of users, its worth doing it financial.
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- KVRAF
- 9096 posts since 5 Feb, 2004
I'm not sure that is really the case, you would basically be paying Props to host and to a degree through their store market your app. It isn't that much different than having your box sit on a store shelf. And based on Urs remarks (from U-he) the dev environment is easy to deal with, and that could cut costs.billcarroll wrote: As a developer, would you focus your energy working on a closed proprietary format for a small group of people for less money? More effort, less money. Maybe some developers will have the extra bandwidth to jump all over this. It's almost like working for the propellerheads.
My issue with it all is that it is a closed system and doesn't integrate well with other DAWs. Regular Rewire is not ideal, if they updated ReWire to be more 'native' as a slave or make a VST rack to host RE plugins I would be more interested even with the closed system limitations.
What I would really like to see is free/cheap REs. They said that was fine, they only take a portion of the profit and if there is little or no profit.... it could be a really good place for all the freeware/donationware devs that would love a small donation to sell their wares, and if there were a huge number of convenient, decent $5 apps it would be really cool. I'd go for that.
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- KVRAF
- 2960 posts since 9 Dec, 2011 from falling
Yeah, it's just speculation on my part. And I have no idea what Reason's market share is. If I had to guess I'd say it's way less than 20% of the total market.Kriminal wrote:For some devs its not a lot of time and effort to convert products already available to RE's, and as Reason has a pretty big pool of users, its worth doing it financial.
I have seen posts by developers saying they can't migrate over the full functionality of their products. I've also seen posts related to issues with changing up the GUI, moving to 3D and changing the layout of the plugin considerably. Sounds like a decent amount of work to me.
I have a feeling even the developers who are building REs now are waiting to see what the revenue stream looks like before committing fully.
Reason is cool. I own a few propellerhead products. I'm just really interested to see how this plays out over time. Had they announced 3rd party plugin support for AU/VST I would have upgraded my Reason 3 license immediately.