The marketplace would benefit HISE because it would get commission on the sales. Yes there is web search but sites get buried unless they are significant. Otherwise you get skilled artisans tucked away in backstreets that only a few know about. It seems to me that for something like HISE to succeed it needs to gather developers and consumers and thereby create the kind of buzz that a market or mall has. Perhaps users would more easily part with a slightly higher price for a sound library that does not need a 399 euro investment to use.Īnother advantage of a marketplace is that it is a central place where all activity and buzz about HISE would be concentrated. But for developer and HISE, the difference of 1000 copies sold at $3 or 1000 at $10 is a lot.Īll those libraries for Kontakt on sale at low prices are tempting, but the need for full player is an obstacle. Personally I don't think there is much difference for end user between $3 and $10 or maybe $20. How do developers make money I wonder at those prices? I see that Kontakthub has instruments starting from a few dollars. So for me, and perhaps for many others, if there were an alternative marketplace that sold Kontakt like sample based instruments for not too much then I would buy them. I am one of those users that have decided Kontakt is too expensive, even though the sight of all those interesting and low cost libraries is tempting. So there must be a lot of casual DAW users who do not want to pay the large price of Kontakt. I saw a quote of 2 million DAW owners vs 50,000 full kontakt owners. What about HISE having a marketplace that allows developers to sell their products and takes a commission? Something like Kontakthub? I am replying from viewpoint of end user rather than developer, with my limited understanding of the sampler/vsti market. This means anyone who writes music using "GNU GPL samples" has to release their music (sound recording not midi or notation) under the same license, which doesn't make sense since a sound recording doesn't have an editable source code equivalent which the GNU GPL requires. I don't think this is wise as derivative works have to be licensed under the same terms. The HISE gratis license requires the samples to be free, for this reason my (librewave) samples are released under a creative commons plus license.įor most people it seems complicated to work out all the licensing issues so some people do release sample libraries (samples included) under the GNU GPL. The GNU GPL is a free software license, samples aren't software as far as the GNU GPL is concerned because they don't have source code and aren't embedded in the binary. There is a difference between open source and free software (although most of the time the two are indistinguishable). It seems to be the way to go but I'm not 100% sure it is because the Hise Sampler developer said on KVR: "GPL means everything you need to compile and use the plugin must be made availabe to the public, which includes samples and all HISE files." What about the Hise Player? When it will be avaiable?Įvery time I use the word free in the following text I'm referring to freedom not see that the Librewave company separates the wav files from the Hise project, making the former payware and the latter open source. I chose the open source way because I think it is great to give people without commercial intentions the best tools available and let companies that create revenue carry the financial recompensation (a scheme that is widely adopted in other parts of software development).Īnd let me be clear: I certainly didn't spend three years of developing this engine just to mess it up because of a licensing scheme that is too restrictive so I am positive we will find a way that everybody will be happy. Most people complaining about the high licence costs are small developers who just want to sell their plugin with a tight margin and that's OK.īut honestly, I really don't understand why people are reacting so aggressively. This is ridiculously less than a full KONTAKT price, which is needed by the end user to play your "free" KONTAKT libraries. It will be a commercial plugin with a low retail price that allows you to sell HISE libraries without any licence fees (but the end user will have to buy the plugin for a pretty low price, something like 20$). Although I am not sure about the subscription model, I don't like this kind of dependency towards a company (like Adobe with their Cloud system).Īlso people really seem to forget the HISE Player (which is pretty easy because it doesn't exist yet :). Yes, I most definitely want to adapt this licence model draft for smaller developers.
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