Excited Objects – re-release of sound library (+ some thoughts)

I have released two smaller sound libraries as pay-what-you-want earlier this year, both are included as tier-prizes (?) here in Airwiggles (will get in touch with the updated versions soon, @Wiggly Helper).

It was done in spirit of "community" and wanting to share my work "more broadly", which I very rarely think is a bad force to be driven by, but after continous talks with friends and peers (you know who you are) I realized that I am not only devaluing my own work, but by extension also the work of those same friends and peers, which is the last thing I want to do; to inadvertently support a race to the bottom. There's a multitude of reasons for abandoning the pay-what-you-want model, but this is the primary one - and the fact that doing something in the name of "community" that might end up doing the opposite is not a particularly pleasing outcome.

So I've chosen to re-release my Excited Objects library over at ASoundEffect
with a bit of revamped UCS metadata, embedded from Soundminer this time around.
https://www.asoundeffect.com/sound-library/excited-objects/

In the spirit of transparency, I will say that the pay-what-you-want model did end up being more "profitable" due to a handful of people spending more, but that's not really the point at all. I want to try and do this in the most meaningful way that sits right in the sphere of expressive and explorative sound libary work.

The Gumroad page has been deleted.

I'm not saying nothing can be made available for free. Some things definitely should be. My ReaperToWwise tool is available for free, in the name of the community, but also because it relies on the dedicated work of others, who have also made their work available for free. So it's an act of balance.

Thank you to the people I talked to about this. And thank you to those who paid what they felt was appropriate. I really appreciate it.

The other mini library consisting of Uher Report reel-to-reel mechanical tape deck recordings are gone too. If you do want them, send me a private message and I will send over the zip, also with a bit of revamped UCS metadata and with the files now as stringouts.

Take care for now.