KVR Audio

surreal · Post by **surreal** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 4:22 pm

Hi all Kvrers...

I was sitting and wondering. .. how expensive is Music Software to ypu when compared to real life expenses. Ok for example in my country $10 is the equivelant of R 150.. now for R 150 I can buy... 2 liters of milk, a loaf of bread. 1kg diced vegetables. 500grams of pasta and 250grams of cheese. This would be supper for a family of four.

$ 100 would give me half a months fuel supply for my car.

I do music full time and say that I earn an average of R 10 000 monthly... relative to this would a piece of software like Zebra 2.5 will cost me R 3000.

Then how expensive is it for you relatively speaking?

A Macdonalds quarter pounder here would then cost $2 a burger

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 4:44 pm

Extremely expensive. For the majority of individuals in my country buying a Zebra license would equal 'broke' that month. Also, many would have to wait 2 months for the same license.

dusted william · Post by **dusted william** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 4:46 pm

A quarter pounder where I live in the US will cost about $4.00,

a 100 would buy my gas for a month. I don't drive to far, stay in town most months. I could probably cut this in half if I had to though.

Your meal would cost about the same for me, but I'd have to buy cheaper bread.

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 4:50 pm

I think its expensive by all standards, even in 'wealthy developed countries', obviously its relative though and the price of a soft synth could be a years wages to someone somewhere like Malawi (I only give this example as its the poorest country Ive lived in)

surreal · Post by **surreal** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 4:52 pm

Very intresting!!

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 9:40 pm

For poor people, it's pretty damned costly. I have a pile of software upgrades I'll be forced into with a brand new Mac and I'm dreading it. I struggled with myself over buying the Korg iDS-10 app on my new iPhone (which I'm paying monthly for) because $9.99 is a lot of cash in my world. Ultimately, I bought it because I want some new fun tools (and I've made a bit of music with it already, despite its limited palette). Being that Korg are having a 50% off sale, I was feeling pressured to buy earlier than later. Since I've got an impending iPad Pro purchase looming, and all the Korg apps are of specific interest to me, this sale is all the more anxiety inducing. I almost never buy anything any more. A cd now and then, or maybe a book. The money I'll use for the iPad Pro is years of tax rebates squirreled away for the Mac Pro that keeps not coming along.

I hate that every hobby I've ever had was focused on expensive materials and technology. I still need studio lights and a proper tripod to get back to serious indoor photography (the nice new camera bought with other tax rebates sits largely unused)... That's if I also can get a computer screen that isn't shit or tiny (or both). The death of my CRT halted my photography work. The iPad Pro might become a photography tool, if the screen is acceptable. If I can sell a few pretty photos on etsy or something, that hobby might give back a measly something. The music hobby never will.

I wish my "love labor" hobby was something useful, like programming or electronics. Or bricklaying. Nope; just useless crap that consumes money and generates none.

zakufan · Post by **zakufan** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 5:13 am

a Valhalla plugin equals to 10 lunches in my country.

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 5:28 am

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the most expensive areas in the world. I make an okay living, but the overall cost of living is rising way faster than my income. I still have to stop and think before I buy something new. Even a typical McDonald's meal is probably somewhere around $8-9 these days.

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 5:42 am

$50 = A Valhalla plugin

-or-

10 "decent" beers (average price @ pub)
3 packs of smokes (example: Kent, Luckies, Camel etc)
10 hamburgers (pub fast-food)
3 pizzas + 3 hot sauce portions (restaurant prices and not fast-food)

all of those and I'll still be left with some change...

nineofkings · Post by **nineofkings** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 5:50 am

And Valhalla is on the cheaper end! Where I am, $50 could be 5 lunches.

Michael L · Post by **Michael L** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 6:02 am

Once I was so broke I had to choose between buying an album or food. I decided I would be happier hungry-with-music. Later, when I wanted music software that I could not afford, I gave up beer. Again, I was happier.

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:31 am

Depending on where I am at the moment I could be well off or just tweaking by. For the nonce I am well off. Saving for a rainy day is topmost in my life.

All the CC I have had I reduced to a couple.

All the mortgage paid off.

But...I operate a family farm here. Anything can happen and it does. Had to buy a new tractor... there goes $85,000 in the pipe. I am lucky that I have avoided all the pesticides, herbicides, artificial fertilizers, and so forth so it balances out in the wash.

So, for me, $50 is not much.

But, having said all that, I do remember living in the streets and I have done a lot of jobs for next to no pay.

ATS · Post by **ATS** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:47 am

no one has to spend a dime to make really good music nowadays if they don't want to or can't. There is SO much great free stuff out there now.

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:57 am

^ if PCs and sound systems could be freeware too

To get decent results you do need to spend at least some kind of money

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:32 am

Everything can be as expensive, or as cheap, as you go.

How expensive is Music Software relative to Living Expenses?