Your Studio Has New Landlords: Native Instruments, iZotope and the Price of Trusting an Ecosystem

Making a Scene Presents - Your Studio Has New Landlords: Native Instruments, iZotope and the Price of Trusting an EcosystemThere are few relationships in modern music more intimate than the one between a producer and a piece of software that has been sitting inside every session for ten years. We may pretend plugins are tools in the same way a screwdriver is a tool, but nobody has ever opened an old album session and discovered that their screwdriver needs to log into an account in Germany before it can turn a screw. Music software is different. We buy it, learn it, build templates around it, save presets in it, use it on records, recommend it to friends and eventually stop thinking about the company behind it because the software has quietly become part of the studio furniture. http://www.makingascene.org