soothe: a dynamic resonance suppressor plugin released
by ollierikkeskinen   26th October 2016

Originally Posted by ajscent ➡️

akhem ... each new version of Acustica plug ins gives you things like an entirely new sampled EQ seperate module for free - take yesterday - they updated Emerald EQ1 to Emerald EQ2 - they chucked in an additional Emerald2 E200 is a dual-mono EQ.

So please ... they give way beyond anyone ...

I mean how does this play out for the user ?

An update every year or two of soothe ? an additional payment for tweaks each time ?

For me .. . its no good ... i bought it - no small change - it was £150

I can buy a behringer model d for 200 - a piece of hardware with resale value.

Thing is friend - this is digital media - its worth at £150 for an eq is a lotta money

its code - digital media - its not in hard form - its resale value is low - i will always believe updates should be free ... we differ fundamentally

It is an amazing eq thingy - and will continue to tell people how its a 'must have' eq - and thats what keeps sales high - imagine you did the right thing and gave free updates keeping a strong ethos of decency - you would sell more not less - goodness goes around friend - like a rose in winter months -

Originally Posted by motomotomoto ➡️

sounds like you would prefer to get hardware or AA plugins. go for it.

Originally Posted by ajscent ➡️

Whats with the hostility bud ?

I'm not here to upset you - like i say - updates on software bought should be free in my opinion

After all it was the buyers of the product which helped get it off the ground and to stay afloat

If as you appear to suggest the company is suffering and in need of funds because of lack of users then I am happy to help

Basically if the product is not doing well - drop the price - the soothe product is so good that basically everyone should have it - drop the price to $19.99 and basically you will get 100 thousand new users or whatever - however if the product does already have these 100 thousand users all ready paying 150 a unit then I would say things are going well - and so well infact they can recognise the dutyful , decent , wonderful users who made this unit popular by spreading the good word of the unit - as always ... im right

Originally Posted by motomotomoto ➡️

I guess i have a tude because there are already a bazillion comments in this thread that the plugin is to expensive or update should be free. i normally don't respond to this stuff, but as a developer i don't like to see the value of others work diminished or trivialized.

Originally Posted by mattias78 ➡️

Tell me one audio plugin developer who lives like a king.

Originally Posted by ajscent ➡️

not happy that soothe want £50 for the upgrade - come on!!! through it for free

Originally Posted by profvonsok ➡️

Yeah, I should've known I was buying an old version a month ago.

Originally Posted by ajscent ➡️

akhem ... each new version of Acustica plug ins gives you things like an entirely new sampled EQ seperate module for free - take yesterday - they updated Emerald EQ1 to Emerald EQ2 - they chucked in an additional Emerald2 E200 is a dual-mono EQ.

So please ... they give way beyond anyone ...

I mean how does this play out for the user ?

An update every year or two of soothe ? an additional payment for tweaks each time ?

For me .. . its no good ... i bought it - no small change - it was £150

I can buy a behringer model d for 200 - a piece of hardware with resale value.

Thing is friend - this is digital media - its worth at £150 for an eq is a lotta money

its code - digital media - its not in hard form - its resale value is low - i will always believe updates should be free ... we differ fundamentally

It is an amazing eq thingy - and will continue to tell people how its a 'must have' eq - and thats what keeps sales high - imagine you did the right thing and gave free updates keeping a strong ethos of decency - you would sell more not less - goodness goes around friend - like a rose in winter months -

Originally Posted by ajscent ➡️

I understand what your saying as a developer - but where does it stop with plugins ?

say a plugin goes through 5 revisions to keep up with the revisions of computers - for instance say it becomes practice for plugins to be 192 because all computers suddenly have greater power ( which they will )

am I to have to pay again for these updates ?

You cant expect a plugin to have 5 updates over 5 years and for me to pay an additional 5 times - that would cost me 250 extra ontop of my 150.

Am I to see plugins such as soothe get 5 updates over a decade ?

Am I expected to pay 50 a time ?

I think 150 is a large price for an ITB eq - but to keep going for updates ? naaa

Its a bad practice in my opinion - and i appreciate yours is different.

I will continue to praise soothe and tell others to buy it - I tell everyone to get it and know that some people have bought it on the back of me telling them they must

Originally Posted by mattias78 ➡️

I must be unlucky then to buy the products that don't get updates like this.
But they have alot of eqs, comps and whatnot But they don't have a soothe plugin?
Cause soothe is something else and that's their marketing advantage. There are other products like this and some is cheaper so why don't those who think soothe is expensive buy the other stuff instead of going in this thread to complain?
Isn't that the real question you should be asking?
AA have alot more companies to fight so they have to be more competitive.
Maybe in a few year another company make something better than soothe and then we'll see what happens.
But now oeksound think that their product is valued as it is.
And behringer model D don't do what soothe does. Don't think you can compare products that does different things.
Couldnt even come up with situation where I would need a hardware chorus ITB 2020