Joe Soap wrote:Are you labouring under the misapprehension that Avantagarde Audio (sic) invented chord presets or something?
Don't be fooled by the assclownery in the hilarious marketing spam.
I am experienced enough and have a good understanding of the market and tools available after decades of dedication to this business to clearly see how AvantGarde Sound (or "Audio", first name I think) approach to their chord design app is innovative vs to what was done BEFORE their enChord product. The creative concepts behind enChord are FAR beyond just chord presets as you are trying to oversimplify. I have studied the app deeply. On the other hand, Muted Arts shamelessly copied the enchord's chordbank (chord memories) concept/workflow, and many of the workflow procedures. Still, it's not even a good copy as enChord is way faster and has way more features as far as I can see, and trust me my friend, I do can see far.
However, as I said, it just bothers me that this guy comes here talking about "contributing" and also complains, yet he said in his video that *he* "came up with the idea" to save the chord presets... ala enChord's chordbank. Also very stupidly, he said that it took him *two* months to "create" his copycat, but he actually published it THREE months or more after enChord was released to the public. On top of that, he also put down the user community library, which contains many of AB's and Mat's designs, and called it "mediocre"... really?
I mean, unMuted ars wants to make his case, but shamelessly copying and disrespecting others' hard work in the user library won't take him far at least with me.
About "assclownery"... call it as you wish, but the fact is that there was nothing like enChord before its release. There still isn't. I am a very satisfied enchord user. Now I compose better and have a better understanding and retention levels of scales, chords and their relationships, let alone the chord and scale analysis features, which the copycats will have to spend a long time on. I too hope AB starts charging for his templates. He deserves at least a symbolic income for his work, just as Mat. I doubt they will get rich or even make a living, but their contributions are very valuable. Fact of the matter is the whole Lemur thing would be way less if it wasn't for their work. Liine and JazzMutant on the other hand HAVE capitalized from their work as well as others' in several ways, and AB has seen nothing other than mere props from his hard work.
Liine definitely must take care of the advanced users that are making the Lemur a better platform and overall product. It's in their interest do so. If they are disabled from seeing the advantages of power users creating powerful/professional templates, I guarantee this Liine incarnation of the Lemur project will fail due to lack of commercial strategy and vision, just like JazzMutant did. Bottom line is we do not live in a world of sharing and love, and this does not put food on anyone's table. What Muted Ars did is nothing vs what the BIG corporate asl's will do just copying and grabbing concepts developed by Lemur users.
Making Lemur a highly monetized environment is KEY for its success, particularly in the long run. Commercially speaking, all the work dedicated to in-app editing will not pay off as they expected, guaranteed. Monetizing the platform, investing in it, taking care of the actual creative individuals here, ie. making it commercially
viable is what will make Lemur into a massive success. How many Lemur users are out there? 2000? We should be 200,000 by now, which signifies nearly 10 million dollars just from direct users.
Apple takes 30% from Lemur sales though, bottom line is that people deserve money for their work. The last time I checked, Lemur was not and still is not a communist subsystem within the wild capitalism system that Apple clearly exercises.
It's just plain retarded to expect people to just give away their hard work; but it's also pathetic to shamelessly copy others' work and yet call us "mediocre" as Unmuted ars did.
