Originally posted by Nedim:
Both of you are right and i completely agree but another problem:
Both companies are small and are not willing to pay programmers for styles.
I personally programmed for devellopers and right now i wont even think
programming one style for less then 450-500$ for a develloper. Can you
imagine how much would that cost them? Dom once offered me (which i
appreciate IT) to program for him 50 styles for one free full MS but at the
same time i took it as desrespectfull to me. To program one style i need
at least a day and over, most of the times 2. I live in NYC and he wants me
to work for 30$ a day? And listen to this, not to pay me ahead, to give me
the MS, i had to pay for it ahead of time 1700EU then after the creation of
styles they will buy it from me for the same 1700EU. I even had to pay ahead.
And you expect a synth loaded with styles? I would do for Dom, not just me,
but many would. My offer stands, he gets from me 6 styles with intros, endings,
fills and variations, only six, nothing more and i get a free full MS. Then after
that we talk for more styles. But for 30$ a day? I'd rather collect berr cans.
Thats why those machines dont have styles. Programming styles costs a lot,
there is many of us that do work for devellopers but for the big heads, not even
for Ketron, even they are small for that kind of work but they do have a lot of
styles. Can you imagine how much would cost coming up with 100 brand new
styles for MS or NEKO? At least 40 grant, at least, even if its 35 still a lot.
Thats the reason they dont even mention that. Do you see Dom ever answer
why he doesnt have styles? Its always the same reason: we leave it to the
customer, convert from Yamaha, they wont tell you the truth.
Its simple...its all about the Benjamins...
I know its expensive... but they have to invest intoo good styles to have access to the arranger market...
OL tough has invested intoo Karma which will come with great scenes and make the OL intoo a true instrument for live use...
Maybe lionstracs can make contracts that pay you $1 per style, for every mediastation sold with your style on it... and invest in teh style programmers to give them a free Mediastation whenever you have created 10 styles (which become the property of linostracs) This way they would need 5 top notch style programmers for the first 50 styles, and put in teh contract that these style programmers need to create at least 30 more styles for media station in the next 6 months... which would be payed for by the previously mentioned methode...
Lionstracs should then add those 200 styles to the mediastation as standard and start selling more styles sepperately for $2 as downloads, that way both Lionstracs and the programmers make more money.
They could also make the mediastation with the 200 style pack 200 dollars more expensive...
I think that someone willing to pay 3200 dollars for an instrument will also pay 3400 if he can actually put it to use...
Next to that you could even use your own gigasamples for the styles and simply add them to the Mediastation library.. SO with the open system everyone will get hapy in the end, but people like Nedim should be willing to help (I know he can make some very awesome styles)and since quallity does not come for free, they should be rewarded for it.
[This message has been edited by Bachus (edited 09-16-2009).]
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