I've never given the question as stated any thought. I had to laugh at bert koor's reply, because I trust people just about that much myself. I knew from fora such as these that I was not buying software, I was buying a license to use some software and this includes being able to access it via the 'net if it was obtained on the 'net, for a while.
First vendors were sample library concerns, and Native Instruments (where most of that was going to reside). And TASCAM, for Gigasampler. Most of these vendors still survive. TASCAM and Giga went kaput fairly early in my journey. "Oh well."
I'll have been more upset had I put a lot of money into libraries for that, but I just didn't. But I know someone who did, because a gigging composer, and he got taken care of by VSL who moved to Kontakt, before they developed a sample player of their own. Some of it, I don't know. I knew how to get a lot of it but translated to Kontakt a dozen or so years ago but that's probably no more (very Kontakt 2 if you get my drift), also a sign of the times.
It's hard for me to sympathize with hard expectations age-old plugins, old hosts etc will be supported indefinitely for new hosts, new OSes, the technology changing as it does. The system it will work on will eventually physically die. We update our shit.![:shrug:]( "Shrug")
and NB: the very first libraries I mention (Kompakt, anyone?) above still show up in Native Access, had I the samples I could authorize and use.
First vendors were sample library concerns, and Native Instruments (where most of that was going to reside). And TASCAM, for Gigasampler. Most of these vendors still survive. TASCAM and Giga went kaput fairly early in my journey. "Oh well."
I'll have been more upset had I put a lot of money into libraries for that, but I just didn't. But I know someone who did, because a gigging composer, and he got taken care of by VSL who moved to Kontakt, before they developed a sample player of their own. Some of it, I don't know. I knew how to get a lot of it but translated to Kontakt a dozen or so years ago but that's probably no more (very Kontakt 2 if you get my drift), also a sign of the times.
It's hard for me to sympathize with hard expectations age-old plugins, old hosts etc will be supported indefinitely for new hosts, new OSes, the technology changing as it does. The system it will work on will eventually physically die. We update our shit.
and NB: the very first libraries I mention (Kompakt, anyone?) above still show up in Native Access, had I the samples I could authorize and use.
Statistics: Posted by jancivil — Sat Dec 16, 2023 2:46 am