Output's Arcade lets past subscribers keep finished tracks

The audio task

A producer wants a steady stream of new sound-design material, playable synths, vocal hooks, textures, rhythmic particles, without buying a new static sample pack every time the current one goes stale. The trade is a recurring fee for a growing library instead of a one-time purchase of a fixed one, and that trade raises an obvious question about what happens to a finished track if the payments stop.

What the documents show

Output's own Arcade product page describes a subscription plugin starting at $12.99 a month with access to 'an ever-growing library of over 60 product lines, 4,400 samplers, 1,300 chromatic instruments, and 80,000 samples,' all described as 'Always royalty-free,' with new content added daily. Its FAQ answers the lapsed-subscription question directly: 'Whatever music you create while subscribed is yours to keep forever, royalty-free.' Output's site-wide Licensing Agreement describes the underlying sounds and samples across its products as 'licensed, but not sold' for commercial and non-commercial finished-content use, bars extracting content into another sample library or instrument, and describes each product as digitally watermarked to its licence. The Licensing Agreement is written across Output's catalogue generally and does not itself walk through the subscription-lapse scenario; that answer comes from Arcade's own FAQ.

Rights status

Read together, the two pages describe a licence to use Arcade sounds inside finished tracks that survives cancellation for work already made while subscribed, while the sounds themselves remain licensed rather than owned outright, meaning extracting or reselling them as a standalone library is excluded regardless of subscription status. Neither page states what happens to a project only partly finished at the moment a subscription lapses. This reflects both pages as retrieved on 16 September 2026.

What to check before you use it

This is an editorial checklist. Keep a dated project file or export as evidence a track was built while the subscription was active, in case a licence question comes up later. Confirm current pricing and plan tiers before committing, since Output's page can change them. Remember that a lapsed subscription removes access to browsing and downloading new Arcade content, not the licence already granted to finished tracks. Do not treat an individual Arcade one-shot as free to repackage into a separate sample pack; the Licensing Agreement forbids that regardless of subscription status.

• Is there a dated record showing a given track was completed while the subscription was active?
• Does the current Arcade plan and pricing still match what was reviewed here?
• Is any Arcade sound being isolated or repackaged in a way the Licensing Agreement's anti-extraction clause would restrict?

Output's own FAQ, not the general Licensing Agreement, is what actually answers the lapsed-subscription question for Arcade: finished tracks keep their royalty-free status, while the sound library itself stays licensed, not owned, whether or not the subscription continues.