Upgrading to a Commercial Use License

Peter-Senior1644 wrote on 9/24/2020, 4:08 PM

I have a question regarding the procedure for upgrading from personal use to commercial use. For example if ten soundpools are initially purchased for personal use, and I then decide that I want to use them for commercial purposes, how do I pay the difference in price between what I paid for personal use and the additional fee for commercial use?

A second and related question is the unlimited access option. If I use twenty or thirty soundpools to compose music as an unlimited access subscriber, how do I arrange to pay for them if I them want to use them for commercial purposes. There is no unlimited access commercial license option so I am keen to know how this is processed by Magix.

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SP. wrote on 9/24/2020, 5:24 PM

You have to pay the full commercial price for all of them. There is sadly no option to pay just the difference and there is no commercial subscription.

So that would be around $600 for 30 Soundpools.

Peter-Senior1644 wrote on 9/24/2020, 6:01 PM

Interesting but disappointing. Thanks very much for your reply. It's a pity Magix hasn't thought of an upgrade option. I will not mention them here, for obvious reasons, but there are several other very competitive royalty free commercial loop options. This has helped me decide to shift to another platform. One of several competing options enables me to pay a monthly fee of only €10.99 /mo for 50GB of professional high quality loops.

SP. wrote on 9/25/2020, 12:48 AM

I personally think that loops are good for getting inspiration quickly but I would always replace them by similar sounding loops I made myself. The result is a song nobody else has.

Using loop based songs commercially these days gets more complicated. If I'm correct YouTube doesn't even allow loop based music (or even music that uses often used samples) to be in their content ID system. And lot of music libraries don't accept loop based music. And you can easily get content claims left and right because some other person used the same loops.

Peter-Senior1644 wrote on 9/25/2020, 3:50 AM

I personally think that loops are good for getting inspiration quickly but I would always replace them by similar sounding loops I made myself. The result is a song nobody else has.

Using loop based songs commercially these days gets more complicated. If I'm correct YouTube doesn't even allow loop based music (or even music that uses often used samples) to be in their content ID system. And lot of music libraries don't accept loop based music. And you can easily get content claims left and right because some other person used the same loops.

There is a famous saying that "All roads lead to Rome." We all have to choose our own path. I know very successful producers who create music utilizing primarily loop based music. All I will say is that one has to know how to use loops in a manner that eliminates or greatly minimizes the problems you mention. There is a reason why there is a huge online market involving sellers and buyers of loops. There all sorts of other issues like different genres. If you can make similar sounding loops for any type of instrument or genre that's great. But not everyone can recreate an orchestral part or play every instrument or master every genre ranging from country music to EDM to reggae to "world" music such as African and Asian ethnic. This is also significant when facing a tight deadline for a commercial project. I will end the discussion with this comment as my post was a query about Magix's personal versus commercial fee structure an dnot about the pros and cons of using loops.