Studio One 7.2

[thievedletter]

Presonus have essentially taught the day one upgraders not to waste their money.

It's a bold sales move, lol.

Exactly!

[Bowsy]

I think it's fairly obvious most people expected that 12 month cycle to be from release date. Just like it always was for every version before 7. You lost out if you purchased a copy of 7 before 1st of January if end of year 2025-2026 is the current update plan. Your just purchasing V7 around 3 months early with about 9 months of updates other wise. That alone should of been in big bold letters to notify people it was the case. That in itself was a shady move if it's true.

It certainly muddy's the waters for when someone should buy into S1 to keep within the yearly plan so they don't get shafted by a few months because they chose to make a random mid cycle purchase.

I have no skin in the game I stayed on V6. If any of this end of year cycle plan is true it's another reason to make sure you purchase on a specific day to catch a full cycle other wise your playing the update lottery. Sounds like madness to me but what do I know

[thievedletter]

Then the key lines from Gregor (@ 1:16) :

"We are targeting 3-4 "major" releases - every year - with the first of these drops coming early next year (since this video was released on Sept 29, 2024 - "next year" IS 2025) - and going forward - version naming will be time based"

VP

This is not a quote from the video, at all. Half of that "quote" was made by you yourself, not Gregor in the video. I mean, at least be honest if you're going to use quotes.

[Vocalpoint Studios]

This is not a quote from the video, at all. Half of that "quote" was made by you yourself, not Gregor in the video. I mean, at least be honest if you're going to use quotes.

Fair enough. Let's clean this up a bit so it is exact:

1:13- 1:22

"So we are targeting 3-4 "major" feature releases every year - with the first of these drops coming early next year and going forward (pause) version naming will be time based"

I simply included this bit:

(since this video was released on Sept 29, 2024 - "next year" IS 2025)

To indicate when this video was released and to show that IF the video was released on Sept 29, 2024 - the line "coming early next year" can only mean 2025.

It was not placed in the original stanza to make it sound like Gregor stated this.

Another more than obvious sign that these major feature releases are "calendar" year 2025 is that this:

2025-10-07_16-57-17.png

Is scrolling by when he states the above.

Again - it is what it is. Believe whatever you want. I know what I see.

VP

[thievedletter]

I mean, they didn't use the naming convention in that screenshot at all...

[Vocalpoint Studios]

I mean, they didn't use the naming convention in that screenshot at all...

True dat.

VP

[andypryce]

Something is going on but I believe it won't be long before we see it.

Yesterday they messed up a lot of accounts with Fender-Presonus log ins becoming a single account.
Also looks lıke the next maintenance update is taking an unusually long time. Looks like they want to leave the 7.2 in an as good as possible state for people planning to stay on ıt. Which is a good thing. Or understaffed
It seems to me a more Fender involved change is coming soon. Naming and other things.

I do not think this yearly perpetual and sub payments are working for them.
Except a few lunatics I have not seen anybody going crazy for any of the so called major updates this year and happy how everything is going. I almost always see disappointment everywhere.

I expect an announcement next week the latest.

[Serhii Kot]

I think they will wait for a month or two, because it will look like a cash grab if they release something in coming weeks as majority users lose their update plans.

[andypryce]

I think they will wait for a month or two, because it will look like a cash grab if they release something in coming weeks as majority users lose their update plans.

Sure. I do not expect any update or something either.
I meant about some ''big changes'' announcement.. again

[dellboy]

So are they heading for a reintroduction of tiers?
Something like - Fender Studio free - Fender Artist or Student - and Fender Studio Pro?

[jamcat]

I think there will be a new update very soon.

7.1 came out right around the beginning of February. 7.2 came out almost exactly 4 months later, right around the beginning of June. It’s now been 4 months since. And a new update every 4 months would give us 3 releases per year.

[Bowsy]

Something is going on but I believe it won't be long before we see it.

Yesterday they messed up a lot of accounts with Fender-Presonus log ins becoming a single account.
Also looks lıke the next maintenance update is taking an unusually long time. Looks like they want to leave the 7.2 in an as good as possible state for people planning to stay on ıt. Which is a good thing. Or understaffed
It seems to me a more Fender involved change is coming soon. Naming and other things.

I do not think this yearly perpetual and sub payments are working for them.
Except a few lunatics I have not seen anybody going crazy for any of the so called major updates this year and happy how everything is going. I almost always see disappointment everywhere.

I expect an announcement next week the latest.

Agreed something is coming soon. Mind you it never affected my account but I also don't have V7 or fender studio. One would hope their listening to feedback and making sure that next roll out is on point as well as any future plans. I know it may look like some of us are a bit salty at times over the new direction but I'm pretty confident most of us want them to succeed. I mean who exactly want's the DAW they use to go down the toilet.

I don't mind people complaining personally as long as it's for a valid reason. Every DAW has a bad year or release it's nothing new. It's the reason I stayed on V6 for 12 months or so, to many question marks at the time. That doesn't rule out me jumping onboard if the next update offers something up I need in my life.

[THE INTRANCER]

Maybe they will add soundtracker like programming to Studio One, it would certainly make Studio One more interesting in the way of programming your music compositions. Bringing over Renoise users would be another feather in the cap by integrating this aspect natively and open the door to a different way of arranging effects and routing, perhaps in a similar way that Bitwig does.

[stanft]

Personally, I would be very grateful when Presonus is not going to create another major project just to lure over the next large user base. They tried it with the launcher. But honestly, the current launcher implementation is miles away from everything that Live, Bitwig or even Logic offers. I just can't think of anybody who chooses S1 in the first place for a clip-based approach. They tried it with the show page. They tried it with porting S1 to Linux. They even tried it with the introduction of Fender Studio.

And currently, all these areas look a little bit like unfinished construction sites that require developer capacity. Developer capacity that is lacking in the areas where it is truly needed. Like i.e. fixing long-time bugs or improving the core timeline-based DAW.

[Vocalpoint Studios]

Personally, I would be very grateful if Presonus does not create another major project just to lure over the next large user base.

While I completely agree that "new and shiny" is not always ideal - bug fixes and/or "fit and finish" releases have zero sizzle and cannot be marketed to new users.

At the end of the day - to "finish" the Launcher correctly or to shore up the DEV team to take care of long standing bugs and core function - that requires cash flow - tons of it.

The only way to get that is - unfortunately - with some sizzle. Espeically with tons of users teetering right now on whether to renew their annual updates come tomorrow. If everyone stands down and does not renew - that is cash that is not coming in.

It is a very fine line to walk but it is what it is.

VP