Splice is making it much easier to buy expensive music production plugins

Cloud-based music collaboration and creation platform Splice is expanding its rent-to-own

plugin offerings, adding iZotope mixing and mastering tools Ozone 8 and Neutron 2. Splice is the only company offering rent-to-own for plugins, an option it launched last year to help bedroom producers access professional tools, which can cost hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of dollars to purchase outright. Splice, which started as a cloud service for musicians to share and collaborate on projects made in DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) like Ableton, now also includes a subscription service to a sample library with over 1 million sounds, a section that features popular plugins like Massive (a Native Instruments synth), a library of free plugins, and a robust online community, offering remix competitions and the ability for users to access other people’s public projects. One of the great things about Splice is that everything is either for free or for a very minimal fee, meaning producers have one place to back up their files, source samples, and collaborate without draining their wallet. But plugins, the tools used within a DAW to do everything from create sounds to process signals, have remained cost prohibitive. With steep price tags and only a few companies offering licensing as an alternative to purchasing, many producers either can’t access the plugins they need or want, or resort to using illegal copies.                                                                                  https://www.theverge.com/tech/2017/10/6/16431394/splice-dj-plugins-ozone-8-neutron-2