software developers who use creative commons code release a pirated version of their software out of fear that if they don’t let users take as much of a fall as possible, and make it as hard as possible to get out of using piracy, preventing the users from achieving commercial success which could lead to H&R block type institutions into eventually or occasionally attempting to audit the software developers codebase for authenticity, then they may be liable for charges worse than piracy, but a variety of infringement and misappropriation of institutionally educational code meant for everyone to parse, or that creative commons code was actually reverse engineered from corporate software, or stolen from their codebase archives. and all of this is a seed in the music software developers mind which causes them to do things out of the normal to try and think their way into owning their code-blocks by tampering with the typical user interfaces by skinning them. once skinned interfaces have settled in the developers mind they eventually preen their codebases more and more causing it to feel like it’s theirs somehow. i know this could happen because i’ve done that by fully going through and picking parts from the reaktor user library and forum uploads. in the end developers weren’t able to say that we were able to release commercially available music because blank compact discs themselves are a product, and once the packaging is opened it becomes a used product, and once the discs are burned with commercial music for sale in corporate orrifices, it’s not just twice used but used and then turned into roughage of some kind, and this goes for the jewel cases and dvd cases etc. and that’s why there wasn’t ever really a music industry, just a music instrument industry. but elevators and computer developers need their little beep sounds here and there.
eh… whats going on?
who does those pirated selfreleases?
isnt reaktor user library made for reusing community built instruments, it’s the whole point or you put it in some other commercial soft?
It is well known in music software industry, that some of the big companies put some fake cracked versions of their softwares on some of the most known sites for pirated software to catch and sue software pirates.
Even Reason Studios did that back in the Propellerhead days when Reason 6 was released in 2012. They boasted that their new copy protection is uncrackable and even made a competition out of it.
They offered a free lifetime license with free lifetime upgrades to the person who could crack their new copy protection. But until today no one was able to crack it. That’s why Reason 5 was the latest cracked version.
For costly softwares,“rent and own” would be a nice solution to counter piracy
You pay each month a small price,and when you reach the price,you own
For example you pay 20 bucks * 20 month to get a 400 bucks license
The Renoise demo is very well made…No need to crack it to understand what Renoise can do
Reason 11 and 12 were cracked in 2021 with a big number of RE plugins
Another good reason to stop pirating, for anyone still doing it.
Most major DAWs release perfectly-functional software that you can make anything your heart desires in, and even stream over into your favorite four-track recorder, bounce the audio files over into another piece of software, or what have you. Obviously saving and loading are usually disabled purposely, so that you eventually buy the software, but working within these perfectly-reasonable limitations and abiding by their fair TOS can make for some extremely creative sessions. More creative than “get it all, today, for nothing!”, and then not using half of the stuff you acquired because you don’t know how to read a manual.
I don’t mean to sound like ‘that guy’, but anyone who pirates anything is usually losing at the end of the day. That’s a hill that I’ll die on.
This was one of the reasons why I went all in. $80 is still a lot to me, but being able to digest the manual (or the parts you initially care about), use it to its near-fullest extent, and even save and load your tracks (correct me if I’m wrong) really allows you to understand quite a lot before finally buying it / while you’re saving for it.
I’m not saying software pirates never read manuals, but I think skipping ahead in line just doesn’t really gel with the slow learning / working toward something approach. I’m not talking from a stance of moral superiority, either; it’s hands-on experience. I’ve made that mistake more than anyone, likely, and it’s just not worth it.
When you do hyper complex routing,you can’t talk about a session…It’s an architecture
I understand…It depend from where you live
But the Renoise license last very long
It would be more just if licences cost a ratio of the (average salary of a country - cost of life)…But It’s impossible to make that in place
I never would install any cracked sofwares. The cracks mostly are full of viruses and trojans…
I don’t think this is a lot for what you’ll get.
I tried most of other modern trackers out there, but in my opinion Renoise is the most usable for me. I work a lot with the sampler. I even use it to edit samples that i only use outside of Renoise for other purposes like editing samples for game development. I even often prefer it to Sound Forge Pro Suite which i also own.
Yeah, for anyone curious, the point wasn’t that $80 was too much; it was that, while being a lot for me at the time, it was well-worth it because of the freedom Renoise brought to the table, and I had plenty of time to learn what I needed before even paying, which is more than what most DAWs could ever offer – even though their versions are often pretty sweet, too. FL lets you export instead of saving, for example, which is a unique tradeoff.
Maybe I need to start making a TL;DR to ‘long’ posts like these or something so that they’re more digestible to the common user, but there was way more to it than that.
so,bad semantic at this time
I’m not sure I agree with that, but I’d also urge you to read the whole post once again.
I agree…Concentration on the main goal of this post