Yeah its definitely a relative topic, I mean the pricepoint. Dollars has x30 exchange value in our land:D
I know hookpad since many years but Ive never been used continually. I subscribed only for 4 to 5 months and canceled my plan because of costs. I usually writing my songs in Ableton. When I compare Hookpad with the most off the daws or apps, Hookpad is always the worst for me in terms of usability, flexibility, interaction, reliability etc. I mean come on, in experience its like coming from the past:D. Im in a M1 Macbook and the app is always stucking at the start. Sometimes its not opening or it just starting the work after 10 minutes waiting, funny ha? Web interface is also pretty lacky and unresponsive for me. Yeah I know there maybe obvious limitations for web apps and this is why companies develop their own great apps and plugins right? I’m comparing the service with high-end modern daws and apps because I feel like the price point is there. Hookpad one time payment is around 200 $, Ableton 12 Intro is half of it. Actually its coming free as a Lite version with most midi controllers and audio interfaces. With such daws you’re buying cutting edge music writing and producing tools, instruments and audio processing stuff. You can even use those in live situation or during jamming. I mean serious. You can dive into MAX devices, VSTs which has more or less offers in terms of content.I wont count all of those because there would be huge comparison. Also, the thing is at the end of the day you have to export your Hookpad project to make your own ‘‘original’’ recording in a daw or something.
So in my opinion it costs way much than if offers. I bought Scaler 2 for 20 bucks and I paid to Hookpad 24 for 3 month subscribtion. I don’t feel its fair.
So what is your main goal to keep using it If you still pay for?
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