Yep. I had precisely NO problem shelling out some extra cash for the additional features on my MixPre-II-in my case, the musician plugin. (especially considering the discount promotions they've offered for them.) I was really fortunate, though. Mine was a discounted demo unit . . . that turns out already had Mixassist and one instance of Noiseassist licenses attached.
@@SoundSpeeds I'm not 100% sure. The plugin makes the menus and options look different and changes the workflow and functionality. I think I would say it's also "different", rather than simply "more". I know that having the switchable project type option is an improvement over needing to choose the "M" version of the device they originally offered.
I think I mostly agree. If a mixer has a physical input, I better be able to use it out of the box. I’m ok with paying for software that runs on the limited amount of included processing power. I do still think it’s scummy if I can purchase and run all the available plugins at the same time without limit. I need to be making a choice of what limitation I’m putting on myself by enabling other features. Those limitations should not be arbitrary, but actual limits of the included hardware. They can’t put infinite ram in these things. I’m in the video now just past where you talk about the mixpre II noise reduction. My understanding is that it works differently than you describe and is actually more palatable. They can only handle running 2 instances of the plug-in single channel each. My understanding of the licensing is if you buy the license for one instance you can choose to apply it to any single input channel, L mix, or R mix. If you buy the license for the second instance, you can then enable another input channel or single mix channel. I haven’t paid for either yet so someone correct me if I’m wrong.
There are two ethical ways to do this. Pay for the full hardware and its capabilities up front, or offer the hardware free (or at substantial discount), then unlock the software/firmware when purchased separately. However, we live in a pay-to-access society. If you had to buy your iPhone up front, there would be a lot more cheap androids out there. This has the unfortunate side effect of blinding people to the pay-to-unlock scam you are describing. We are so used to paying for things after we receive them, we forget the instances when we already paid for them. We allowed companies to normalize this behavior. They will stop, when we stop letting them. Happy Holidays (unironically)!
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Yep. I had precisely NO problem shelling out some extra cash for the additional features on my MixPre-II-in my case, the musician plugin. (especially considering the discount promotions they've offered for them.) I was really fortunate, though. Mine was a discounted demo unit . . . that turns out already had Mixassist and one instance of Noiseassist licenses attached.
Wasn't the Musician's plugin just a handcuffed version of the firmware? I'm trying to remember.
@@SoundSpeeds I'm not 100% sure. The plugin makes the menus and options look different and changes the workflow and functionality. I think I would say it's also "different", rather than simply "more". I know that having the switchable project type option is an improvement over needing to choose the "M" version of the device they originally offered.
There is also a Simple, Advanced and custom mode
I think I mostly agree. If a mixer has a physical input, I better be able to use it out of the box. I’m ok with paying for software that runs on the limited amount of included processing power. I do still think it’s scummy if I can purchase and run all the available plugins at the same time without limit. I need to be making a choice of what limitation I’m putting on myself by enabling other features. Those limitations should not be arbitrary, but actual limits of the included hardware. They can’t put infinite ram in these things.
I’m in the video now just past where you talk about the mixpre II noise reduction. My understanding is that it works differently than you describe and is actually more palatable. They can only handle running 2 instances of the plug-in single channel each. My understanding of the licensing is if you buy the license for one instance you can choose to apply it to any single input channel, L mix, or R mix. If you buy the license for the second instance, you can then enable another input channel or single mix channel. I haven’t paid for either yet so someone correct me if I’m wrong.
I haven't/won't pay for the licenses either so I may be mistaken
There are two ethical ways to do this. Pay for the full hardware and its capabilities up front, or offer the hardware free (or at substantial discount), then unlock the software/firmware when purchased separately. However, we live in a pay-to-access society. If you had to buy your iPhone up front, there would be a lot more cheap androids out there. This has the unfortunate side effect of blinding people to the pay-to-unlock scam you are describing. We are so used to paying for things after we receive them, we forget the instances when we already paid for them. We allowed companies to normalize this behavior. They will stop, when we stop letting them. Happy Holidays (unironically)!
I totally agree. I have DLC and the like