A Note About the Recent Unity News

Midinous

Midinous is a grid-based non-linear MIDI sequencer usable with any Digital Audio Workstation or hardware that accepts MIDI messages. Midinous can also generate its own simple sounds either for reference, or for normal use.

Hey y'all, I hope everyone is doing well -- I've had a crazy year and 1.1.7.0 has been put on the back burner while I handle life for awhile. Some dev teams have the advantage of passing this work off to teammates, but as you can imagine in a team of one, this gets a little dicey, and I can only imagine people's frustration when it comes to a lack of content. Anyway, I wanted to let everyone know now that Midinous is not changing price, not going to a sub model, will never make you pay for updates, or change the way you install the software, or the number of computers you can install it on. Granted a lot of this is based on Steam's Terms of Service, but within my power as a dev on the platform I will do my best. Midinous will never have paid DLC or lock features behind a paywall. Midinous is built in [b]MonoGame[/b], which is a Free and Open Source (FOSS) development framework for C#. It is, to my knowledge, largely crowd funded and community supported and doesn't have any affiliation with Unity. However, I feel like this is an incredibly worm-brained move by Unity upper. They are trying to milk an already-milked industry for all they think it's worth when really it's people trying to make fun/cool/deep/etc experiences for people like you and I. Without Unity we wouldn't have a game like Superliminal, for example. I could "get mad" all week long, but I think this is an opportunity to show Unity upper that this stuff is unacceptable. We as devs are not expendable resources -- we're people trying to innovate in a space because we want to, not because we need to. I would hate to see wonderful ideas killed before they take off because the people behind it couldn't afford the overhead. We know it already happens but a move like this doesn't help. If you are at all irked by this decision, stay mad and use it. [b]Happy creating[/b], <3 Jae P.S. 1.1.7.0 is in development. Please stay tuned for more. Also Midinous' 2nd anniversary is on September 28th!