Fender Studio Pro 8 Released

[Serhii Kot]

You can link couple of parameters on macro knob and then automate that macro knob, if i understand correctly, what you want.

Macro knobs are another weak spot of the Fender Studio Pro.

You can’t automate them at all! You can record automation linked to them, but it will capture the linked parameters as separate automations instead of the macro knob itself.

[Serhii Kot]

Revamped automation with some kind modulation possibilities and it will be the perfect DAW.

[Serhii Kot]

- You can't see the list of operations on the start-up screen any more, which makes it seem to take longer.

You can enable this in the settings.

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[tumface]

edit: nope, this post was wrong. UI was misleading. Delete me.

[razornaut]

I couldn't be arsed to edit your long, boring, post just for your benefit

What about the benefit of everyone else who might want to follow the thread, too lazy to think about them, too? It's all about you, right?

See? I'm making an effort! Only when it suits me, mind and of course it's all about me! This is Ally McBeal and I am, of course, Ally! As we seem to be stating extremely subjective things as objective, the problem is with you, or something equally silly. Don't accuse someone of stupidity because they don't share your opinion on the behaviour of a control. It makes you look like a total wanker. I don't even necessarily disagree with you but calling a preference stupid is, well, stupid. Anyway, I think we can both agree that this argument isn't going anywhere interesting and I'm derailing this even further just because of boredom. I need to get out more.

Upgrade is acceptable for me. The price stings a lot but I was expecting to be so annoyed with their direction that I would have had a virtual bonfire purely on principle. Not today, though.

[jamcat]

Because of the 1-year limit on free updates, the longer you wait to pay for an upgrade, the more to your advantage it becomes. Actively disincentivizing customers from buying is an odd way to run a business, but it is what Fender has chosen.

[tonedef71]

Interestingly enough, I purchased a Studio 7 upgrade license key from Best Service during the Black Friday sales for $98 and have been sitting on it, just waiting for the best moment to use it. However, I see that it is available for even cheaper now at Best Service for $87.


Well, so much for trying to take advantage of the best time of the year to purchase a Studio 7 maintenance upgrade license key. I would have just been better off waiting until later.

[BONES]

Or you'd have been better off installing it when you bought it, then you could have got a few month's use out of it while it was still the current version. Don't feel bad, though, I've done similar things before.

Because of the 1-year limit on free updates, the longer you wait to pay for an upgrade, the more to your advantage it becomes. Actively disincentivizing customers from buying is an odd way to run a business, but it is what Fender has chosen.

The thing is, they probably aren't looking at us, they are looking at their corporate customers, who like to be able to budget for software purchases/upgrades in advance. Knowing that they have to pay a fee every 12 months makes products like this more attractive to those customers.

[fedexnman]

I think Fender did a really good job of version 8 . Now the whole version 7 release fiasco and Presonus take over that's another story . I had bought a used v6 artist for like $40 something years back and don't jump on version 7 .

[cryophonik]

Hmmmm, dilemma…I have a Studio One 6 Pro license that I haven’t used in almost two years. I’ve owned it since v1, but I’ve only ever upgraded it when I needed a new version to collaborate, which I really don’t do anymore. I’d have to practically give it away to cover the transfer fee and make it worthwhile for someone who wanted to pay the $99 upgrade cost to v8. My other options are to just keep it and cut my losses or upgrade to v8. Fortunately, I’m in no hurry to decide, but in the meantime, has anyone seen a feature comparison chart for v6 vs v8? I’ve looked around and can’t find one.

[VitaminD]

Because of the 1-year limit on free updates, the longer you wait to pay for an upgrade, the more to your advantage it becomes. Actively disincentivizing customers from buying is an odd way to run a business, but it is what Fender has chosen.

The hope (for them) is the features and improvements they include just outside of a 1 year cycle will encourage people to spend the money on the next upgrade cycle.

I'd rather it that way then what Steinberg does with Cubase. There is a new whole version once a year and if you don't upgrade before the subsequent whole version you pay more to upgrade. And the upgrade price doubles every whole version for the first two versions. So 100 to go from 14 -> 15 but 200 to go from 13 -> 15. The whole premise is to keep you spending annually to avoid the financial penalty for not remaining current.

At least with Fender they're letting users decide if they want to upgrade when they want to upgrade with no penalty for going beyond a year. Kudos to them on that.

[musicalwarmth812]

For those of you that have registered new hardware recently and didn’t receive the software, did anyone at Presonus ask you for a picture of the serial number and a bill of sale?

I have registered some hardware with them in the past, even one that was gifted, and was never asked for a bill of sale or a picture of the serial number. All I’ve had to do before was register the serial number and the promised software was automatically deposited into my account.

[jamcat]

Because of the 1-year limit on free updates, the longer you wait to pay for an upgrade, the more to your advantage it becomes. Actively disincentivizing customers from buying is an odd way to run a business, but it is what Fender has chosen.

The thing is, they probably aren't looking at us, they are looking at their corporate customers, who like to be able to budget for software purchases/upgrades in advance. Knowing that they have to pay a fee every 12 months makes products like this more attractive to those customers.

Yeah, I don't know who they're looking at. Renaming it from PreSonus to Fender is a weird move. I think their userbase is going to shrink rather than grow. Electronic musicians are going to stop giving it a look, because the name Fender will make them think it's some kind of RiffPlayer software for guitarists who want to learn tabs of their favorite Green Day songs from a dinosaur guitar company that's totally out of touch with the way they make their raver music.

Their userbase is going to become increasingly guitar oriented. All of this will be fine by me, mind you.

[lfm]

I'd rather it that way then what Steinberg does with Cubase. There is a new whole version once a year and if you don't upgrade before the subsequent whole version you pay more to upgrade. And the upgrade price doubles every whole version for the first two versions. So 100 to go from 14 -> 15 but 200 to go from 13 -> 15. The whole premise is to keep you spending annually to avoid the financial penalty for not remaining current.

At least with Fender they're letting users decide if they want to upgrade when they want to upgrade with no penalty for going beyond a year. Kudos to them on that.

I see Steinberg's way of doing it respect for those that are more current than those that did not upgrade for 5 years.

Fender now might be a one time thing, same price tag for everybody reeling in as many as possible. Next year it might diverse more on what you have.

It seems to be hard to put enough new stuff in there for perpetual licenses to pay again so many try subscription model.
- many upgrade hoping for bug fixes as well, maybe more than features

I felt Cakewalk in Roland and Gibson years did an incredible job and yet had trouble to get a business of it.
- every month long list of fixes etc
- feature requests though were often brushed off with "we go by industry trends" and similar

Reaper seems the opposite, too many new features almost, half baked. Something for everybody. But very generous pricing model.

I'm a bit exited though over Studio Pro, some things I have been missing
- notes module in mixer to see notes you made on a track
- don't have to use Craig Andertons fix to get recorded track separated from mix and a listen bus and checkbox to send all soloed there, easy to dim mix further to good distant level
- readability is very good, having no issues there, after some tweaking
- and downloaded manual being offline, just love it

I would think my old culprit is still there, midi does not play back as recorded making everything automation, not by choice. First occurance of controller is also put as start value for that clip which make it send also as clip starts.

But felt last payed 2018 and now for $99 getting current I can wait for that to be a choice if to convert to automation. Sonar Artist 2015 still main daw, so I can wait.

[Fornicras]

For those of you that have registered new hardware recently and didn’t receive the software, did anyone at Presonus ask you for a picture of the serial number and a bill of sale?

I have registered some hardware with them in the past, even one that was gifted, and was never asked for a bill of sale or a picture of the serial number. All I’ve had to do before was register the serial number and the promised software was automatically deposited into my account.

I bought Quantum HD8 in November 2024 and when I tried to register it, it said invalid serial number. I created a ticket and they asked for the receipt. I sent, then they added the unit to my account.