New Slate deal: Free = how much ? :)

I understand they sued a lot more people than just Gobbler. Euphonix and Rocket Network pioneered and hold most of the patents related to online collaboration.

www.thefreelibrary.com/Euphonix+Unveils+New+B2B+Solutions+for+Audio+Facilities+and+Their...-a065366181

www.thefreelibrary.com/DSP+MEDIA+ANNOUNCE+DEVELOPMENT+PARTNERSHIP+WITH+ROCKET+NETWORK.-a065359547

www.thefreelibrary.com/Euphonix+Teams+With+Rocket+Network+to+Provide+Internet+Recording...-a059161088

There's also www.alienbrain.com.

I am so conflicted on the Idea of subscription plugins.
Great cash flow for developer and end user, but the dealer gets screwed and often the dealer is the honest service provider when there is a Plug/Host issue.'
Price seams good , but the idea is to lock you in to Plugin line ! No aka-carte option !
The opt in and out seams great but if it's like the message envy PKG I bought my wife and after I finally got them to quit charging my card a year after ending the contracting and that was by canceling that card!

Used nothing but the Slate stuff on this recording here.  Tracked it today (rain day).  I find it all to be very hot and distortion"ish".  I was used to tracking with hotter inputs on the pres.  Couldn't find a setting on most of this Slate stuff where I couldn't hear distortion.  This is an old tune BTW.  Not mine.  Messing around. 


https%3A//soundcloud.com/herb-music/ill-go-crazy

I didn't get an activation email either, but finally got them loaded in Cubase 8. So, at least in Cubase you don't need an activation code, you just need to make sure you activate them in your iLok License Manager. I would suspect the same is true with PT, but haven't loaded them in PT11 yet.

Did the Gobbler install do its thing successfully?

When I did mine, I had to open Gobbler and let it download and install each plugin. It said "installed" next to them in the Gobbler window when they were done.

Except that THOSE folks knew they had something you'd WANT....over and over....so, if Slate thinks he has that, more power to him. I see nothing wrong with that. 

Business model works for me as an artist. I see it as paying $25 every time I need to mix an album for a full suite of tools. That means Slate should get $75 from me over the next decade. If he's cool with that, I certainly am.

Finally.....paying about what software is worth, IMO. Now, if I can just rent a 1608 and Burl Mothership for tracking for say $100/mo....I'll be set with how I make the next record. 

Yes it is. For those, who are in command of their gear addiction and think from an economical and rational point of view.
From a psychological perspective, you get more than you ask for when renting a package and the desire to own it might rise as you see needs of products you did not think you need before....
Btw., this is also the problem i see behind all those upcoming rental and subscription systems with DAW software. You don't want to lose the "ownership", which in fact is just a usage license, and you buy in again and again. And most people seem to do it, even if you get a permanent license and you could be perfectly fine with one version that absolutely fits your needs.
This said, Slate is a great marketing guy though...and i am sure the model would fit many non-professionals that were not into his software before or people who are in the situation of occasionally making a record...

because you only get to use them for a month for $20 bucks.

also, code doesn't "wear out" like hardware does lol

I wish UAD would come out with something like this.   your monthly fee would be based on how many plugins of theirs you already own vs how many you don't. 

Yeah, that 1960's Neumann is all worn out, that "cosmonaut" plugin code works fabulous on a Mac G3 or pentium 1 windows 98 machine 

Yeah, I know it's only a month.  I guess I should have been more explicit.  For someone (like me) who has almost all the Slate plugs, and has spent probably over a thousand bucks on them, it would be the same $20 per month to get all the future plugs as someone who doesn't have any, plus the non-haves get all the current plugs.  A few months free subscription can make up maybe 10% of the purchase price, it just seems like a kick in the ass to existing customers.

And I think once the subscription model takes hold, most new Slate users will go that route, basically making purchased plugs worthless in the second-hand market.

By the way, I have a closet-full of software purchased over the last 15 or 20 years that hasn't worn out.  It's fresh as a daisy, just completely worthless.  I also have lots of hardware, none of which has worn out, and will continue to have value.