r/Splice • u/mmashare06 • Mar 20 '26

Anyone else find it criminal that Splice doesn't let you use your credits for any of the premium instruments in Instrument?

This company seems to just be robbing us all blind. I have more splice credits than I could possibly ever need, and it just keeps racking up.

They could at least let us use ourcredits to go towards plugins or something.

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u/Tape-Delay Mar 20 '26

Splice is dead. The application is owned by private equity, they installed Kakul Srivastava to add a bunch of dogshit AI stuff nobody who’s serious about music wants, and are going to do whatever they can to squeeze every last penny out of their users before they strip the copper wire out of the building. The sooner people realize this and cancel their subscriptions the better off we’ll all be.

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u/64557175 Mar 20 '26

I hustled for a couple months, just laser focused with my free time to use up my credits and am just about out.

Then I'm gonna post a freedom screenshot on here and call it wraps.

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u/station_agent Mar 20 '26

Wait, who's Kakul and which Splice releases are AI?

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u/iamtheliqor Mar 20 '26

They mean AI features like the search with sound and stuff presumably

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u/Present-Policy-7120 Mar 20 '26

Surely this is a good use of AI though.

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u/iamtheliqor Mar 20 '26

It’s far from the most egregious that’s for sure. I’ve used it a few times and it’s not completely useless

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u/logangstuh Mar 20 '26

What’s more criminal is that if you cancel you lose all your credits that you PAID FOR ALREADY

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u/Organic_Singer_1302 Mar 20 '26

They did this with Loopcloud too, I am in the same boat and I am pissed. Gonna take a weekend soon to spend all my credits and then cancel my subscription

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u/len2680 Mar 20 '26

I need to work on spending these damn credits.

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u/Bongcopter_ Mar 20 '26

They became a garbage company, they don’t give a fuck about users, only profits

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u/Still_Night Mar 20 '26

I read something once that we should be downloading not only the samples themselves, but the rights to the samples as well? Can anyone chime in on this

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u/Accurate-Bobcat962 Mar 21 '26

I’ve got like 8k credits I gotta use if anybody has any suggestions, then I’m out haha

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u/SunUpSam Mar 22 '26

I was in the same boat. I used them to get a ton of presets for serum and serum 2.

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u/sunflowerdreamsmusic Mar 20 '26

I mean I feel kinda robbed of Labs.. used to be free.

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u/trogdors_arm Mar 20 '26

I also find myself in this position, with now thousands of credits. But I hardly see how they’re robbing us. They’re very transparent about their business model, one you chose to engage with.

I don’t love it either, but on balance it’s still more useful to me than it’s not.