I wonder if Garritan receives ANY licensing fees for being included in
the distribution. As we have been discussing, what they supply is
artificially limited, practically forcing you to go out and spend a
bunch of money with Garritan to address those deficiencies. I'm not
saying that is bad or wrong or unetihcal. Indeed, it is the sort of
co-marketing that happens all the time.
dhbailey wrote:
That's the one thing that's been holding me back from buying Garritan
products. Having to spend $180 to buy the personal orchestra only to
find out that I would have to purchase their JABB product also (for
another $199) to get a more complete group of instruments, only to
find that in reality I also needed to buy the Concert and Marching
Band for another $180 to get a truly complete library of sounds that I
might need in the course of my engraving work and preparing demos.
That makes it a $559 proposition, something I wouldn't have suspected
when I had bought that first GPO product, if I hadn't been a member of
this list.
Obviously Garritan is surviving quite nicely without my money (other
than the licensing fees that Finale and Sibelius have paid them for
the sounds they have included in their recent releases) but I think
that with a bit more forethought and extensions of ranges, they could
make a whole lot more money from a much wider clientele.
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