Bargain Center: discussion, gossip, etc.

[Goseba]

PreSonus is celebrating the 2011 NAMM show by offering an absolutely insane deal on Studio One Artist. During the NAMM show, between January 13 and January 16, 2011, you can purchase a download version of Studio One Artist for only $20.11 USD. That's 90% off the regular price!

http://www.presonus.com/namm/

Am I correct in that Artist doesn't support vst instruments and effects?

Yup. Artist, I think, is the one they normally bundle with their hardware interfaces. Still might be a cheaper way to get the pro version (with plug-in support) for someone who wants it. Looking at the street price, it seems to work out about $80-100 off.

Thanks fo the confirmation.

[TristezaOrange]

PreSonus is celebrating the 2011 NAMM show by offering an absolutely insane deal on Studio One Artist. During the NAMM show, between January 13 and January 16, 2011, you can purchase a download version of Studio One Artist for only $20.11 USD. That's 90% off the regular price!

http://www.presonus.com/namm/

Am I correct in that Artist doesn't support vst instruments and effects?

Yeah, no VST.

I'm getting it though and if I like it I will upgrade to the full version.

[alacantec]

PreSonus is celebrating the 2011 NAMM show by offering an absolutely insane deal on Studio One Artist. During the NAMM show, between January 13 and January 16, 2011, you can purchase a download version of Studio One Artist for only $20.11 USD. That's 90% off the regular price!

http://www.presonus.com/namm/

Am I correct in that Artist doesn't support vst instruments and effects?

Yeah, no VST.

I'm getting it though and if I like it I will upgrade to the full version.

If WAVES is interesting, maybe it worth pointing that one also:

Upgrade from Studio One Artist for $199 (US Street Price) and get Musician Bundle 2 for just $90 (65% of list price)

[Jazz Franco]

PreSonus is celebrating the 2011 NAMM show by offering an absolutely insane deal on Studio One Artist. During the NAMM show, between January 13 and January 16, 2011, you can purchase a download version of Studio One Artist for only $20.11 USD. That's 90% off the regular price!

http://www.presonus.com/namm/

Am I correct in that Artist doesn't support vst instruments and effects?

Yeah, no VST.

I'm getting it though and if I like it I will upgrade to the full version.

Trist, is it really that good (included FX/instruments, workflow etc)? Considering I already own and use Reaper. I'm tempted to spend $20 on this, but then again I'm a bit afraid to get yet another unneeded thing for peanuts... greed, y'know.

[chokehold]

The link works already, BTW!
Got mine an hour or so ago.

NON-US people: just change the currency to USD$ and the price will change to $20.11 !

I am a Reaper user as well, but my license is "running out", I wouldn't get the v4 update for free. So I've been looking around for quite some time now, and Studio One is (IMO) the most reasonable.

Tried the demo and liked it, now I jumped on this deal which just saved me something like $180 ... the upgrade to Pro is another ~200$, which seems pricey, but all in all it's still not really more than the full commercial license for the upcoming Reaper 4. (If you get it now and then upgrade to Pro)

[ToneCarver]

PreSonus is celebrating the 2011 NAMM show by offering an absolutely insane deal on Studio One Artist. During the NAMM show, between January 13 and January 16, 2011, you can purchase a download version of Studio One Artist for only $20.11 USD. That's 90% off the regular price!

http://www.presonus.com/namm/

Am I correct in that Artist doesn't support vst instruments and effects?

Yup. Artist, I think, is the one they normally bundle with their hardware interfaces. Still might be a cheaper way to get the pro version (with plug-in support) for someone who wants it. Looking at the street price, it seems to work out about $80-100 off.

Their website says the Pro version is 64/32 bit and the Artist version is 32 bit only. Might not be a big concern, just something else to consider.

[Ah Xoc Kin]

Just saying thanks to plc. I recently bought Tracktion 3 Ultimate Bundle for $20, and as soon as I saw the offer for Studio One I decided to buy it as well.
Tracktion handles all of my plugins so between these 2 -and DSP Quattro at the end of the process- I have everything covered.
BIG thanks!

[alacantec]

Just saying thanks to plc. I recently bought Tracktion 3 Ultimate Bundle for $20, and as soon as I saw the offer for Studio One I decided to buy it as well.
Tracktion handles all of my plugins so between these 2 -and DSP Quattro at the end of the process- I have everything covered.
BIG thanks!

¡de nada!

[heffus]

For $21, I might as well. This will give me a nice upgrade path in case I ever get totally fed up with Cubase.

[GreyLion]

Cranky old man rant coming here --

FWIW, I did the purchase for Studio One, using my PayPal account. Which links to one GMail account, but I use another GMail account for purchases like this. They apparently use Plimus, and Plimus choked a little on this, sent me an email to my PayPal-linked account, asking to verify that the order was legit. I clicked the link and, all was good. Supposedly.

However -- Plimus insisted on getting my phone number also. Historically, I just put in a 555-5555 number and blow it off. This time, they refused to accept that, and won't process my order without my real number. I see absolutely no reason for them to be needing my personal phone number for an online transaction. I sent an email to them asking for a refund or cancellation of my PayPal transaction. This is way too intrusive for me.

Haven't heard back yet. When and if that cancellation comes through, I'll see if using my credit card works without this foofaraw.

/grump off

[TristezaOrange]

Trist, is it really that good (included FX/instruments, workflow etc)? Considering I already own and use Reaper. I'm tempted to spend $20 on this, but then again I'm a bit afraid to get yet another unneeded thing for peanuts... greed, y'know.

Well, it seems to have some cool included content and FX. I use FL Studio religiously so there's no way this is going to be my main DAW but for 20 bucks I just had to. Maybe do some tracks in this exclusively just for fun - see how a different approach produces (or fails to produce) different music.

Oh alright, it's greed here too. I'm downloading now!

(I also greedily bought TruePianos although I had no real need for them because I could get it for 50 euros BTW it's a really cool piano emulation but I prefer Acoustica Pianissimo so far (which is not as flexible though) )

[Jazz Franco]

Oh alright, it's greed here too. I'm downloading now!

Well, so am I

[standalone]

East West is running a four days 50% off sale in most of it's products during NAMM. That's the kind of offer that they do in very, very special occasions only: NAMM, Messe, Christmas, Easter, Summer, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Pope Ratzinger's Birthday..........so hurry before it's over.

[lagavulin16]

Cranky old man rant coming here --

FWIW, I did the purchase for Studio One, using my PayPal account. Which links to one GMail account, but I use another GMail account for purchases like this. They apparently use Plimus, and Plimus choked a little on this, sent me an email to my PayPal-linked account, asking to verify that the order was legit. I clicked the link and, all was good. Supposedly.

However -- Plimus insisted on getting my phone number also. Historically, I just put in a 555-5555 number and blow it off. This time, they refused to accept that, and won't process my order without my real number. I see absolutely no reason for them to be needing my personal phone number for an online transaction. I sent an email to them asking for a refund or cancellation of my PayPal transaction. This is way too intrusive for me.

Haven't heard back yet. When and if that cancellation comes through, I'll see if using my credit card works without this foofaraw.

/grump off

You should sign up for a throwaway gmail account and google voice number.

[GreyLion]

You should sign up for a throwaway gmail account and google voice number.

Ooh. Not a bad idea!

I cancelled the original order, which took two days for them to process, then re-ordered again, using a less-obviously fake phone number.

Processed right through, and I downloaded Studio One and all of the content last night. All good now.

I understand their whole fraud-prevention thing, but that one just pushed me over the edge for some reason. Seems both unnecessarily intrusive and, in my case at least, totally ineffective.