KVR Audio

digitalboytn · Post by **digitalboytn** » Thu Jun 18, 2026 5:31 am

Plajia wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2026 8:03 pm you kinda suck balls

trusampler · Post by **trusampler** » Sat Jun 20, 2026 7:32 pm

Hi Fender,
Presonus did a really terrible job at their midi assignments/ controller support. Please look into this, and fix the constant issues where this daw forgets it's controller settings,when they're saved using their built in midi controller settings, this is probably the worst in the daw world in my experience.
Constantly forgetting what we've done, and no real way of backing the settings up, that guarantee success when moving cpu to cpu correctly. A proper export then import feature would be really valuable here. Presonus did no justice when they constantly abandoned implementing advanced midi features all of the years they owned Studio One, now it's on you to deliver MIDI finally. Help us out

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Sun Jun 21, 2026 1:23 pm

Are you really so stupid that you think you aren't talking to exactly the same people who were looking after Studio One 3, 5 and 10 years ago?

trusampler · Post by **trusampler** » Sun Jun 21, 2026 1:46 pm

Bones,
Your right, Fender ownership is actually Presonus. Presonus sold it to and Fender/ Presonus , and then bought it from themself and are working under cover posing as Fender.

Thanks for letting me know how this all works, I'm so stupid I couldn't tell.

CapnLockheed · Post by **CapnLockheed** » Sun Jun 21, 2026 2:27 pm

trusampler wrote: Sun Jun 21, 2026 1:46 pm Bones,
Your right, Fender ownership is actually Presonus. Presonus sold it to and Fender/ Presonus , and then bought it from themself and are working under cover posing as Fender.
Thanks for letting me know how this all works, I'm so stupid I couldn't tell.

Kudos to you for admitting your shortcomings. Very courageous.

fedexnman · Post by **fedexnman** » Sun Jun 21, 2026 2:40 pm

$99 to upgrade . I just went on to the Fender site . I don't get all the drama ? It's a DAW . It's VERY inexpensive .

Crossinger · Post by **Crossinger** » Sun Jun 21, 2026 3:38 pm

fedexnman wrote: Sun Jun 21, 2026 2:40 pm $99 to upgrade . I just went on to the Fender site . I don't get all the drama ? It's a DAW . It's VERY inexpensive .

Go to the neighbor threads “Why do people use multiple DAW’s?” and “ If you had to stick to one DAW, which one would it be?”

For many users, it’s more of a marriage rather than a tool choice.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sun Jun 21, 2026 4:15 pm

fedexnman wrote: Sun Jun 21, 2026 2:40 pm $99 to upgrade . I just went on to the Fender site . I don't get all the drama ? It's a DAW . It's VERY inexpensive .

It is. I don't really like that they went that 1 paid upgrade per year path that Cubase does as well though, but, nothing stops you from skipping versions, and just upgrading every 5 years or so, of course. The way people buy though, many will upgrade every year. Which is nothing else than a subscription really.

And, to the stuff above, yes, of course, it's still the same team that develops Studio One (or, Studio "Pro", ugh...), so, addressing Fender to do stuff that Presonus Software didn't do won't do much, I think.

fedexnman · Post by **fedexnman** » Sun Jun 21, 2026 4:57 pm

I'd upgrade from S1V6 for $99 , but I'm trying to learn Ableton still

. I play guitar and just the Fender amps seem worth it to me , I may just bite the bullet , it is nice to have two different environments to work in . $99 that's like $8 to $9 bucks a month . I think software companies are going like the rout of streaming ( music , tv , splice ) that seems the business model . I don't really like it but at the same time . You can RENT a DAW for a month or 2 or 3 to really put it through a demo . So, there are positives . I think the Fender name screams guitar company and that spooks everyone out here at KVR .

thievedletter · Post by **thievedletter** » Mon Jun 22, 2026 2:20 am

fedexnman wrote: Sun Jun 21, 2026 2:40 pm $99 to upgrade . I just went on to the Fender site . I don't get all the drama ? It's a DAW . It's VERY inexpensive .

It's twice the price (at least) than it used to be.
But the real issue is bang for buck.
I had no issue paying, when they actually worked on the core functionality of the software. The last couple years, there's a pattern of abandoning older functionality and instead adding third party add-ons that cost money, or require a subscription. They also do nothing to help in editting, or mixing. That's why I use a DAW in the first place.
Add to that, development has drastically slowed down. You could pay for a year and barely have a single update of merit.

Obviously, it depends on the individual and their use case. You not sharing that opinion does not mean the opposing position is overly dramatic, or wrong.

jamcat · Post by **jamcat** » Mon Jun 22, 2026 9:40 am

I do find Studio One Pro to be lacking direct audio waveform editing capabilities. You can open Acon Digital Acoustica as an ARA2 plugin to fill the gap, but so far Fender/Presonus has never given Acoustica direct access to a place in the Edit menu the way Melodyne and Syncro Arts get. Acon Digital get second-class treatment.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Mon Jun 22, 2026 11:10 am

thievedletter wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2026 2:20 am
fedexnman wrote: Sun Jun 21, 2026 2:40 pm $99 to upgrade . I just went on to the Fender site . I don't get all the drama ? It's a DAW . It's VERY inexpensive .
It's twice the price (at least) than it used to be.

Studio One used to cost 400 €, and upgrading used to cost 150 €. Fender Studio Pro costs 200 €, and upgrading is 100 €.

Price has gone down, but, there is one paid version per year now (not two how it used to be), and update support for a year too (not two years or more, how it used to be).

You could say that the price stayed the same, at least if you buy a new version every year.

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