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offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-10-04 08:27 [#00392404]
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I was just giving some serious thought to actually buying a
legal copy of re-birth. I thought it would be £40-60. I
checked Steinberg's site, it was £134. WTF? I'm sorry, but
no-one short of a professional musician is going to buy
that. No wonder so many people pirate it. Don't they
understand that the reason hardware has to have such a large
profit margin (and hence price) is the high base cost &
small number of sales? With software this shoudn't be true,
surely it's better to sell 4 times as many copies at 1/3 of
the price if the base cost (CD& Packaging) is so low.

I know some of you will say, if you can't afford it you
shouldn't use it. No, I'm only going to spend that
amount of money on something tangible like a mixer.
Rant over.


 

offline Laserbeak from Netherlands, The on 2002-10-04 08:39 [#00392413]
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I agree. The money is for research and development but £134
is too much for this old piece of software. Even freeware
can do more than Rebirth, it's fun to use though


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-10-04 08:48 [#00392420]
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I know, I can't believe it has gone up in price since 1.5 to
be honest there's very little functionality that's been
added and now it's pretty much "complete" (I can't see there
being another version) and they have finished developing it
they should just concentrate on selling a large number of
copies.

The only benefit I would gain from buying it would be being
able to use mods and maybe the legal standpoint (esp. if you
actually used it playing live). For £50 or so I'd think it
was worth it, but when you consider how feature rich
shareware floops with as TS-404 is in comparison it's
laughable they try to charge so much.

I expect it's just because, it's a TR-303 mannnnn!.
So what? They're a bit overrated anyway and in any case
RB338 doesn't emulate detuning etc. so it's not like it's an
"actual" replacement for the hardware for a real techno
purist, even if they had the money...


 

offline Carisba from Roma (Italy) on 2002-10-04 08:49 [#00392421]
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TRY TO USE BUZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
www.buzzmachines.com


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-10-04 08:51 [#00392424]
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Buy a guitar!!!


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-10-04 08:57 [#00392430]
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My brother just gave me a nice semi-acoustic guitar. I need
to re-string it and dig out those guitar books, but I like
the twangy sounds of the old stretched strings :)

Carisba: I've tried buzz and I like the modular nature of
it, but I find (on my already unstable system) it crashes
too frequently...


 


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