I’m not quite old enough to remember, but were people always this entitled before companies had to give stuff away for free, just to encourage customers to consider them for future purchases? Maybe you all prefer a time when companies would charge a fortune for absolutely anything they could, because only the elite had access to recording equipment?

Get a grip, it’s an installer.

piano sound with effects is something really complicated and very special… like rocket science.

As far as troubles and all this ‘online’ crap. I’m an old goat and I had absolutely no problems dl’g and using. Of course you need to be online to download. Hello. And of course you do NOT need to be online to use. Duh.

This thing sounds excellent to me. So I’m grateful to have it.

Thanks Spitfire.

Have you even checked out this software. The download manager downloads the software. You don’t need to run the manager while in daw and you don’t need to be connected to the internet the use it. It downloads the plugin and installs. It’s no different to you doing it manually.

I agree. Desktop software that requires a constant online connection is very annoying and personally I avoid them. Everything that unnecessarily complicates the process should be avoided. What if in 5 years the installers are no longer available or you cannot activate them any longer? The best format for distribution of free sample libraries is sfz-format. No disrespect to Spitfire Audio, they have provided two great sounding free libraries to the community, which is generous without a doubt!

With the sfz format the advantage would be that the library stays usable independently of an online connection / activation. Still, sfz (with the free Sforzando sfz player) allows for individual GUIs and even semi-scripted libraries.

agreed

in times of big data we should know what mostly meant to be with “its free !”.

bpb presented till today enough good independent software of great guys that go other classic ways. that software get loved and spread and honored, maybe with a donation link to support work like this. THERE is really nothing to complain about.

my post did not aim on one product – it aim on the distribution way with only service centers and online contents for “free” or for money and extra software to install.
thats unprofessional but its the actual state.
far away its like new software games with “ingame buys”. the kids buy the high priced software again and again, pay twice, why they shouldnt change something ? because of fairplay ? because of moral/ethik ? one day they shut down the server, what are they going to do ?

audioarea is more dedicated and more mature – sometimes i have the feeling the commercial companys think the customers are the same group and deserve it the same way. pervert.

between rise and fall are sometimes only neglected little things.

im not sure if its free. but thats a other question, that go to far.
and if its for free, make it simple. you dont need to count me as a customer because i have to register. why i need a account ? after that, why i need to download and install a online installer ?

you can tell your opinion “its free, nothing to complain about….”,
i tell my point of view. of course its free, but that point we talk about is general. every thing out there startet as a little thing.
not every movement/way to distribute software is correct.
social media is the same big overhyped wave. and the registration at their platforms is free too… nothing to complain about ? please..

i guess the aim with free products of commercial groups is to reach as much people as you can get as someone who want to make money and to get attention on other products. one will use it (for exmaple piano) and tell it his friends, share a created songs with others and make a hint of the used piece of software.
i will do nothing of that, BECAUSE of that. also its “free”.

do you let your dog pee on your carpet, even if he is only 1 month old ?