Sure I am annoyed that in many cases they rip it 1:1 without improvement, and that they rip some products actively in production. But in greater scheme of thin

Sure I am annoyed that in many cases they rip it 1:1 without improvement, and that they rip some products actively in production. But in greater scheme of things it's some products authors already paid NRE few tens or hundreds times over vs musician having access to gear they couldn't dream of owning few years ago. And I have absolutely no problems with cloning products already out of production. > You may say, well, that’s capitalism, but no, dear reader, it’s shady and involves no new R&D work, no innovation, and since their business model is loss-leading everyone else out of business, it’s parasitic and will result in stifled innovation in music hardware. Oh you sweet summer child if you only knew how often the designs are copied with slight change in that space... hell, whole guitar pedal market is incest over incest for last 60+ years > They went so far as to buy the chip company CoolAudio to build clones of the Curtis CEM3340 oscillator chip featured in all these 80’s polysynths. ...so the chip is still produced and people can use it vs possibly going out of business. How is that bad ?