CM special with Rapture and Sonar Home Studio

[whyterabbyt]

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Or for just $100 more you could get a more feature-complete DAW that's the closest equivalent to Sonar in the market, with proper MIDI editing features that are completely missing from SO.

The Samplitude offer, right?

[sonicpowa]

You're forgetting that:

-SO's user base is small compared to other DAWs. They can't take risks with upgrade prices.
-Almost everyone still using Studio One 1 were people who use other DAWs they prefer and only bought SO out of curiosity. Everyone who had real interest in SO upgraded to Studio One 2. Nobody is going to pay 300 bucks to upgrade a DAW that's still in its infancy when they have another tool for the job.

You're comparing the upgrade price policies of a very well established and fully featured DAW to a DAW that people didn't even talk about until a few months ago, when PreSonus began giving it away almost for free. PreSonus is offering these deals because these guys are desperate to grow their user base.

You are saying all this like it´s a fact.

[Romantique Tp]

You are saying all this like it´s a fact.

Do you really think that more than just a few serious musicians using Studio One as their main DAW decided to stick with the bare-bones v1 after the huge improvements that v2 and 2.5 were? Did you take a little look around to see how few people were talking about SO compared to after PreSonus began giving away the Pro version almost for free?

Studio One is almost 10 years old, yet like half of the posts mentioning it on KVR were made only 2 years ago, after SO 3 came out. The post ratio is even worse on other forums.

[sonicpowa]

Do you really think that more than just a few serious musicians using Studio One as their main DAW decided to stick with the bare-bones v1 after the huge improvements that v2 and 2.5 were? Did you take a little look around to see how few people were talking about SO compared to after PreSonus began giving away the Pro version almost for free?

Studio One is almost 10 years old, yet like half of the posts mentioning it on KVR were made only 2 years ago, after SO 3 came out. The post ratio is even worse on other forums.

I don´t presume anything, link to the exact numbers, please.

[grymmjack]

If you want to use 32 bit plugins then you can just get jBridge, which runs them better than any other major DAW. It also gives you a ton of compatibility options, which can allow you to run old plugins that even native 32 bit DAWs cant run properly on modern OSes (!).

If any of the features in any DAW are useless to you then you can just... not use them. Every music DAW in the market today is priced with the assumption that you wont use at least 1/4 of the features.

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You're forgetting that:

-SO's user base is small compared to other DAWs. They can't take risks with upgrade prices.
-Almost everyone still using Studio One 1 were people who use other DAWs they prefer and only bought SO out of curiosity. Everyone who had real interest in SO upgraded to Studio One 2. Nobody is going to pay 300 bucks to upgrade a DAW that's still in its infancy when they have another tool for the job.

You're comparing the upgrade price policies of a very well established and fully featured DAW to a DAW that people didn't even talk about until a few months ago, when PreSonus began giving it away almost for free. PreSonus is offering these deals because these guys are desperate to grow their user base.

Thanks for the tip on jBridge! Holy awesome. So good. I went for the S1 Pro 3 crossgrade after all, I couldn't resist. S1 just appeals to me more than Cubase. I took a very long and hard look at Cubase and decided that it wasn't for me. Thanks for your help!

[SparkySpark]

Great choice (either way) and good luck with your music.

[grymmjack]

Great choice (either way) and good luck with your music.

Thanks!

[D-Fusion]

Studio one is great if you work ITB but if you use Hw synths too i would suggest something else.
I have Studio One,Sonar + more but went for Cubase when Cakewalk closed the doors and Sonar is now history for me.
If they had been so kind to remove that phone home crap when they closed i would still use Sonar but showing us the middle finger like this gave me no other choice