From what I gathered from young newcomer's,on Reddit mostly(there are a lot of them)they want Serum or Omnisphere or Arturia stuff,but usually Serum,or they use Vital. I doubt most of them have even heard of Rapid. They want what their favorite artists use or what the YouTubers use in their tutorials,plus Serum has an insane amount of aftermarket presets available . I don’t own Rapid for some reason but own almost all the others,I did demo it and thought it was cool and did want it but never got it for some reason. Unfortunately after reading this thread I don’t think I will be buying in the futureI was thinking that with companies like GForce returning after a long hiatus the market was probably more profitable now than ever. Hard to know, clearly there are so many products competing, and as a result prices tend to drop rapidly after initial release, or the majority of buying happens around BF (quite a daft scenario). So even u-he has started to drop prices, and prior low-cost options like Valhalla no longer look cheap.I nowadays crowded market it´s quite hard to reach an efficient income from a single product to justify any time for further developing or can can even force the developer to take another full time job to earn some money...
But there must be an infinite stream of new consumers in the market, young folk who want to play with the tools, and who on their journey decide drip by drip to buy every iteration of every historic synth, compressor etc ever made. I guess this corresponds with the maturation of social media and the fact that now anyone can easily publish what they do. Hence DAWs introduce more features that correspond to that demographic, auto-mastering etc.
Aha, I guess I've answered my question, the new market conditions rely on huge quantities of low-cost purchases, and mega-synths don't fit that criteria well. GForce can rely on new sales of an expanding product line, whereas the one-stop-shop uber synth needs something like Current's preset library to generate constant revenue.
Statistics: Posted by ChanceB — Mon Oct 28, 2024 3:31 pm