So why not charge?Unfortunately, CM does not exist anymore. We don't know if and what we can do, and our schedule is pretty busy for the next year or two. We need to focus on our main products now, and hopefully get clarity on CM rights and stuff in the future. Also, the CM stuff has afaik been a lot more up-to-date than Tyrell, not entirely sure.Hoping the CM synths follow.We changed it for Zebralette 3, but we can't simply unbundle Zebralette from Zebra 2/Legacy.And still want Zebralette 2 to have its own download.
That said, we're happy to maintain freeware or magware. Yet, it needs to have an advertisement effect on our paid stuff. The cost of upkeep has become incredible, just Tyrell's preset tagging alone took our content guys - who are full time employees - several months until it was up to our standards. Yet, we won't compromise quality of our free offerings by using lower standards, simply also because I think our reputation is more so what sells Divas and Hives, and that is what our free stuff needs to demonstrate.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, we pretty much put the same effort into our free stuff as into our paid things, but we need to prioritise paid stuff in order to do so.
The CM stuff is particularly curious. If there is no distribution path for ZebraCM/BazilleCM because there is no CM, we need to figure out what to do with it. It was great as long as they did tutorials with them, but with all of that gone, there's no immediate solution. We have to weigh options and see how we go after Zebra 3 and possibly some more new stuff in the pipeline.
Keep Podolski and Triple Cheese as freebies, but charge 20-30$ each for Zebralette and TN6. And presuming you can get the rights back for the CM stuff, sell those at the same prices also.
They're all far more worthy than their current 'price' and would be no-brainers.
Statistics: Posted by el-bo (formerly ebow) — Thu Mar 20, 2025 11:49 am