[Mixomera]

Hi there
Glad to read all your opinions about Mixomera. They will all contribute to make decisions easier for us, since we now can pinpont your main concerns. As I understand these are the issues:

1. Us making money from your work. Pleaseee. Let's make 180 degree turn on this one. We provide a platform that lets you market your sound fx in a convenient way, and make some money. You get one share for making the recordings and we get one share for running the e-commerce site. Everyone are of course free to set up their own online sound libraries, but considering the absence of such sites we must assume that this is not something everyone would do overnight.

2. Stealing. This is a problem, for all distributors of digital assets. We will do our best to prohibit that, for instance our preview quality is not something a professional would record and use. We also demand login before you can buy, and all contributors are dealt with on a personal level.

3. Price. Yes, this is an interesting issue. I asked the question before, but have not got any answers. How do you measure the commercial value of a sound effect? Lenght? Sample quality? Exotic recording location? Please give me the facts and I will use that as a standard pricing model on the site. Until then, a fixed price for all assets will be the case. Alternatively we could let the individual sound designer set their own prices within a defined price range.

Price is also interesting from two perspectives.
1. What would you as a sound designer want to get paid?
2. What would you as a buyer want to pay?

We have to find a level that both parties are willing to accept. Pascal, thanks for the tip, you are definately onto something here. I forward this tip to people who want to contribute. Make those simpler/ordinary recordings more attractive by giving several versions of the sound.

When setting up a new internet company you could do it either by offering a complete and mature solution. This is like the big boys do business. No negotiating, no asking, this is our solution and this is what you get. Or, you could do it our way. By investigating, and talking to the people you actually want to attract. Personally, I find the latter more attractive, especially since we are seeking a long term collaberation.

We have launched a technical platform that is rock solid, this 100% quality and will work for a long time. BUT, on the content side we are on beta 0.2. We are right now investigating what you people want, how you want it, and if you could consider to participate. We do not have the answers to all questions yet, but we are pretty confident that we are onto something good. And we will continue to work hard to make the right decisions.

If you would like to participate, you are most welcome. If you are hesitant, please bookmark the site and check us out now and then. The site will improve, that is a promise.

From now on I think it is better to move this conversation to a forum on our site, or via private e-mails. I will not challenge the patience of the Gearslutz moderators/administrators anymore on this thread. (Thanks Geert for allowing a private company like ours to take up space on this forum, it has been invaluable).

And yes Pascal, when we are ready to go live and start marketing the site towards a larger audience, we will first run that spalltjeck :-)

Cheers,
Mikael