Ghekorg7 (Ret)
Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret)
Hallo Lars, Giwro
Agree with both of you, these are the basics on producing and releasing sample sets, commercial or free.
I know how hard labour needed to produce one, for my jOrgan dispositions or models as we call them, hundred hours spent , with the difference I didn't take the samples of original pipes themselves. The rest of the work is the same.
But as I work with free stuff from A to Z, I cannot get any profit from my models , it would't be fair indeed. So I share them and even give some kinda support , changing some things or add one or two features and send patches, if someone asks for. I 've made some two or three sets for GO, still I haven't decide to share and here indeed the work is hard too.
My objection to the commercial side is the high prices. Guys, they are indeed high. Producers can come up with very low peices and get more money, as more buyers than expected will come in.
Example.
Independence Pro 2.5 (now 3.0) with basic library (20GB) was about 200euros. Yellow Tools started lowering the price from time to time, to 100 and lowering till they stoped at 40euros+tax9e= 49 euros !! Now they're talkin' business. I got this imediately. they also gave to these last customers the new 3.0 for free (!!).
See what I mean? I'm shure that with the lowest price they had a hit and more income. The same with EWQL. They now offer stuff for low pricess, still high, but low considering the 1st release(from 2.500$ to 500 0r 700$).
Dear Giwro, I know your set is one of the lowest priced (if not the lowest...) for HW3 format and this also helps my claim. I also happen to know some sets producers and indeed are great guys. We must consider that some of them give away some very high quality organ sets for free......
Now I heard about some church complain that didn't get anything from their sampled organ, but as Lars say, naming the set with the church's name and including photos and info (in my Oberhausbergen set I icluded two photos of Ste.Odile's church on the console!) is a great advertising of both the Church and the organ in the whole world.
Even if I visited Sweeden many times, I never heard of the Burea...
With Lars' set, Burea came to existance for many many people now. There.
But I got the opposite feedback from the curches themselves : they don't like it. No photos on, no samples....... (?!). What to say...
Best regards and merry Christmas to all
Panos
Agree with both of you, these are the basics on producing and releasing sample sets, commercial or free.
I know how hard labour needed to produce one, for my jOrgan dispositions or models as we call them, hundred hours spent , with the difference I didn't take the samples of original pipes themselves. The rest of the work is the same.
But as I work with free stuff from A to Z, I cannot get any profit from my models , it would't be fair indeed. So I share them and even give some kinda support , changing some things or add one or two features and send patches, if someone asks for. I 've made some two or three sets for GO, still I haven't decide to share and here indeed the work is hard too.
My objection to the commercial side is the high prices. Guys, they are indeed high. Producers can come up with very low peices and get more money, as more buyers than expected will come in.
Example.
Independence Pro 2.5 (now 3.0) with basic library (20GB) was about 200euros. Yellow Tools started lowering the price from time to time, to 100 and lowering till they stoped at 40euros+tax9e= 49 euros !! Now they're talkin' business. I got this imediately. they also gave to these last customers the new 3.0 for free (!!).
See what I mean? I'm shure that with the lowest price they had a hit and more income. The same with EWQL. They now offer stuff for low pricess, still high, but low considering the 1st release(from 2.500$ to 500 0r 700$).
Dear Giwro, I know your set is one of the lowest priced (if not the lowest...) for HW3 format and this also helps my claim. I also happen to know some sets producers and indeed are great guys. We must consider that some of them give away some very high quality organ sets for free......
Now I heard about some church complain that didn't get anything from their sampled organ, but as Lars say, naming the set with the church's name and including photos and info (in my Oberhausbergen set I icluded two photos of Ste.Odile's church on the console!) is a great advertising of both the Church and the organ in the whole world.
Even if I visited Sweeden many times, I never heard of the Burea...
With Lars' set, Burea came to existance for many many people now. There.
But I got the opposite feedback from the curches themselves : they don't like it. No photos on, no samples....... (?!). What to say...
Best regards and merry Christmas to all
Panos