The original prices of DAWs?

[anttimaatteri]

I owned Rebirth and remember pouring over the .plan files on the propellerhead site. Well worth looking at these on archive.org. It was just so exciting and fulfilled all my wants and needs: A synth, sampler, drum machine, easy to use sequencer - it was so far ahead of its time and was truly cutting edge. Soft synths back in the late 90s were experimental at best.

Propellerhead were so ahead of the curve when it came to communicating, it seemed like half the company were explaining what they were up to and how things were going. https://web.archive.org/web/20000817021 ... index.php3

I think I paid £299 for reason 1 - I still have the box somewhere which was a piece of art in itself!

i still have the original 1.0 cd . and the hunt for the first mods was insane haha.

[Sampleconstruct]

Back in the early 1990s when Logic was still named Notator and came with a huge plastic dongle (which also served as the Midi interface) for the ATARI ST, I paid something like 1.500 DM (German Mark) for the software and dongle, that would be € 750 EUR without the inflation.

[SneakyBeats]

I kinda happy that music software has a lot to offer these days.. And the fact that it's available for everyone and you can make great tracks with freeware only.

[Melkor]

I'm pretty sure I remember Logic Platinum being an eye-watering AUS$1499 around 1999-2000...

Cubase was a tad cheaper... and the Digi 001 package was $1999.

[telecode]

I recall paying around $150 Canadian for an EDU version of Logic Express. Can't recall what version now. Must have been back in 2005 or earlier.

[felis]

I think it was 1989, I paid $350 plus tax for Cubase 2 (midi only).

[machinesworking]

What sort of blows me away is the DAWs that have not really lowered their price, Most are maybe $100 cheaper than they used to be. Logic and Reaper should set a precedent IMO, but that's not the case really.