The original prices of DAWs?

[mcnelson]

Tracktion was £50 / $80 / €80 when released in November 2002; adjusted for inflation, that's $115 in 2020.

A brand new copy of Waveform Pro (basic) will set you back $119 in 2020.

[jancivil]

Cubase SX1 was a $349 sort of deal in 2003 at Guitar Center

[v1o]

Had a look the SOS site. Let me tell you something, there was way less crappy music being made back when a decent DAW like Logic Pro cost a lot of money.

Logic Platinum (v5) £649; Logic Gold £479; Logic Audio £259; upgrades from version 4 £99, £79, and £49 respectively. Space Designer £449; EVB3 £169; EVD6 £129.

Samplitude Professional (v7.1) £658; Classic £329; Sequoia £1987.98 Prices include VAT.

[Tronam]

I distinctly remember paying close to $900 for the full Logic Audio Platinum package. There must've been other components that drove the price that high.

[machinesworking]

I distinctly remember paying close to $900 for the full Logic Audio Platinum package. There must've been other components that drove the price that high.

You used to have to pay for the embedded plug in s separately, that might be it.

[machinesworking]

Mar 10, 2001 - Mark of the Unicorns Digital Performer 2.72 $795. I got a crossgrade deal for about $350 at the time.

I also got a crossgrade on Reason ($199) for weirdly enough owning Cycling 74's Pluggo, I think they were both distributed by Steinberg at the time?

[Monsum]

In 2000
Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 - $429
Cakewalk Pro Audio Deluxe - $529
Cakewalk Pro Suite - $829

In 2001
SONAR 1.0 - $479
SONAR 1.0 XL - $739
Fruityloops 3.0 - $139

In 2003
Cakewalk Project5 - $429
FLStudio 4 Producer Edition - $209

In 2009
SONAR 8.5 Producer - $499

In 2010
SONAR X1 Producer - $399

[Reefius]

I remember paying around 1000 Euro for Cubase Audio for Atari around 1994. Most expensive piece of software I ever purchased.

[AnX]

Orion was about £30 in 2000 when I first bought it, I think...

[AnX]

In 2003
Cakewalk Project5 - $429

i thought it was released much later than that.... wow

[macmuse]

I distinctly remember paying close to $900 for the full Logic Audio Platinum package. There must've been other components that drove the price that high.

I remember paying that. It was close to $1000, somewhere around when Apple took over, I think when you relinquished the key.

[toine6]

I think I bought my first sequencer around 1997-98 or so. Cakewalk 7 (way before Sonar). It was close to $500. I was a complete newb and couldn't figure it out, never recorded anything with it, complete waste. They were having a monthly class for Cubase at Guitar Center for free, so I started attending. Cubase seemed a lot more intuitive so I bought the mid-grade version, for around $400-$500. That was when they had just released the first VST's. Model E which "claimed" to be a Minimoog clone was blowing minds. It was like having infinite amount of Minimoog's at your disposal. For a while there it was a battle between Direct X and Vst plugins. A while after that FL Studio advanced from a simple little drum program to something much much more, and it was reasonably priced and had lifetime updates. I have been using that mostly, since version 3.5.

[VitaminD]

Add in the cost of a computer, which were higher then than today, into the calculation too.

[SneakyBeats]

Add in the cost of a computer, which were higher then than today, into the calculation too.

I don't remember exactly what my 800Mhz AMD cost, but I remember that it cost alot

[excuse me please]

Bitwig, €389 from the shelf. I planned to grab&go but the salesman kept talking my ears off about BW for about half an hour. The shop was even decorated with Bitwig promo, but that's long ago