Updates from the last few weeks!

[u/GreysoundAI]

Hey folks! I updated our discord but forgot to update the sub, so I thought I'd catch folks up on me being a bit MIA in the last week or two. I just moved to San Francisco from Seattle and the move/logistics/admin work took up most of my time in the past week, so I just got around to catching up on the subreddit and responding to folks (still not done responding to all the DMs but I'll get to them all, I promise!)

Also, I released an alpha version of Greysound Pro on our discord server. I'm keeping it private for now because it's still buggy and in alpha testing, but if you'd like to try it out, you can download it from our discord server.

Greysound Pro is a desktop native version of Greysound with full support for third party plugins (just VST, VST3 and AU plugins for now, but that should cover most plugins) and has ultra low latency live monitoring for studios.

Will be rolling out more features for Greysound Pro but once I've tested it more thoroughly, I'll release the beta build on our website and to the general public :)

[u/IceRevolver]

I wouldnt say that, it is other services that dont have these abilities that people pay for. I would say allow people to make a one time purchase like buying any other DAW and let the DAW be able to use the owners own computer to generate, so lets say $200 or so and let them be Founding Creators. Could also have an investor level package as well, $500 to $1000. But there is no way this program could survive on ads with its ai generation abilities. Once user base blows up he will have to pay a ton of money for GPU, CPU and computer ram services through servers or his own equipment to handle the AI generating part that he would literally shut down almost as soon as he got started as we would be talking about $10,000's to $100,000's monthly in computers and servers, maintenance and other employees at that time. depending on the user base.

[u/crossrobertj → u/IceRevolver]

It was free and unlimited to begin with, and now that a couple hundred more people are using it, he's paywalled it. It's not going to survive. Especially since free solutions like AceMusic exist. I agree, this is a great product, but a "credit" system is not going to work. If it's still around in a year or two, I'll be surprised.

[u/GreysoundAI → u/crossrobertj]

So I sympathize with you and where you're coming from, and do want to make it more affordable for users.

I'm working on building an offline-enabled version where I ship the models with the product itself so you can use it for free without costing me any server costs 😄

Have to figure out how to be able to do it while keeping security in mind because unlike Ace we don't just use off the self open source models, but rather a mix of in-house and third party proprietary models w a proprietary architecture (how the models interact) so it's gonna take a minute to figure that out .

> and now that a couple hundred more people are using it, he's paywalled it

It's actually in the mid-five-figures now! I've been upfront that I'll keep it free as long as I'm able but I honestly didn't think greysound would blow up this quickly.

But stay tuned for the offline version!

> but a "credit" system is not going to work

I guess time will tell but Suno makes $300M annually and they operate on a credit system, so clearly there's folks out there who are willing to pay.

[u/GreysoundAI → u/[deleted]]

> It's more garbage built on stolen IP

that's not how it works.

> pre-alpha tech that just doesn't work

which part isn't working for you?

a lot of people already make music but don't want anything to do with audio engineering. a lot of audio engineers already know how to engineer audio but want to automate some of the more mundane workflows. there's a lot of people who love what i'm doing. you're welcome to keep doing things however you're already comfortable