Wow looks cool, I'll give it a try later on. Thanks for all your stuff man!
But let me get something straight, you are putting a lot of time, money and effort to develop these plugins and they look and sound great and we really appreciate it. But where are your profits in all of this?
Right now, nonexistent, we are putting a lot of time and effort, but not much money, so we're not effectively losing money, we're just not making it, we have plenty of ideas, some of which are further along in development than others, but it won't come at a loss of integrity, a little bit of history - we were, at first, going to be selling VSTs, and keep DIG and BIG free to attract users to our site and release affordable, high quality VST plugins that would appeal to the DIG and BIG users, in the end we decided that selling VSTs was not the best option, we thought we wouldn't make a penny, and I'm sure Ken won't mind me saying, we came VERY close to shutting down and giving up, so we thought, we've got these products we were gonna sell, we've got a site up, we can't just let them both rot, it's a COMPLETE waste of our time and effort, so why not just carry on working on the stuff, just not as intensive as we were (Ken was putting in 20+ hour stints on the VSTs and I was on 10-15hrs site coding a day) - get the products finished, and just give them away, if we're not going to make any money selling our effects, then there is NO point letting them sit and rot, 90% completed and completely unavailable for anyone to use, so give them away, let's see if there's other routes we can take to making money, so far, we haven't made a penny, but we haven't spent anything, of course our time isn't worth nothing, and if we were doing this for a company, I can only speculate what Ken would have earned, but I'd have made around £2-3,000 for this site build, but we're not throwing money into the company, I've got the hosting, domain and bandwidth for free because I work freelance for a guy who owns his own hosting company, we already have the required software and hardware, because what we're doing here is what we do professionally as well, so it's only costing us a lot of time and effort, and right now, it's worth it just to know people are enjoying the products we nearly abandoned.
In the future, when it comes to us needing to make more effects from scratch, who knows what we'll do, whether we'll carry on making them for free, whether we'll readdress the potentiality of making money from commercial, affordable VSTs, or whether we pursue other avenues of possible income, or whether we'll just continue to make them because we love bringing these out, testing them, making them better and hearing what others can do with them, we DO want this to be successful and make money somehow, but right now, we're not 100% sure where we're taking this, we just know that we don't want our products stagnating and left in the dark just because we can't make a few bucks from them.
