Will You Be Upgrading To Studio One Pro 6.5 Or...

[dellboy]

Regarding the sale at Thomann: It says it's a Black Week sale, so, I guess the price will be the regular Thomann price (119 € here) after that.

I clicked that "Buy" button yesterday. 99 €. Just installed it. Configuring now.

Disclaimer and self-reassurance: It's been 5 1/2 years now that I upgraded to , so, it was about time.

I thought it was 89 € ? Did you have to pay vat or something?

I just checked and version 4 came out in 2018, so five years of studio one was 18 € a year. Bargain!

[chk071]

Regarding the sale at Thomann: It says it's a Black Week sale, so, I guess the price will be the regular Thomann price (119 € here) after that.

I clicked that "Buy" button yesterday. 99 €. Just installed it. Configuring now.

Disclaimer and self-reassurance: It's been 5 1/2 years now that I upgraded to , so, it was about time.

I thought it was 89 € ? Did you have to pay vat or something?

Yeah.

[jamcat]

I just checked and version 4 came out in 2018, so five years of studio one was 18 € a year. Bargain!

Time is more valuable than money. I just see that as 3 years of missing out on an even better life with Studio One 5 & 6.

[THE INTRANCER]

I just checked and version 4 came out in 2018, so five years of studio one was 18 € a year. Bargain!

Time is more valuable than money. I just see that as 3 years of missing out on an even better life with Studio One 5 & 6.

It's the plugins which really make the difference to your actual music though. Studio One really hasn't expanded much on that with version 5 & 6.

[jamcat]

I just checked and version 4 came out in 2018, so five years of studio one was 18 € a year. Bargain!

Time is more valuable than money. I just see that as 3 years of missing out on an even better life with Studio One 5 & 6.

It's the plugins which really make the difference to your actual music though. Studio One really hasn't expanded much on that with version 5 & 6.

The DAW provides the creative environment. It’s the singular point of interaction between music creator and creation. How quickly you can work, and how much the DAW facilitates or inhibits the realization and transfer of musical ideas, is what matters most for a DAW. The direct experience provided by the DAW itself can motivate and inspire. And this is where Studio One version 6 in particular really shines.

Not to mention the extremely refined staff notation and tablature editors that Studio One Pro gained in version 5, or the lyrics track in version 6. These are real songwriting enhancements that open up Studio One for real songwriters and arrangers.

But if it’s new plugins you care about, version 6 made some waves on that front as well.

[chk071]

I just checked and version 4 came out in 2018, so five years of studio one was 18 € a year. Bargain!

Time is more valuable than money. I just see that as 3 years of missing out on an even better life with Studio One 5 & 6.

It's the plugins which really make the difference to your actual music though.

If you even use the plugins. For me, it's more about workflow improvements, and things which don't get in your way, and, Studio One is excellent in that regard. Already love the GUI improvements.

Anyway, I totally understand skipping a few versions. I surely won't upgrade before v8 or v9 are out again. 5 years plus is much rather the time I use a version of a software, not 2 years or less. Especially when the upgrade is rather pricey.

[jens]

Where's the voting-option "I don't know - we'll see"?

I'll probably not upgrade at full price, but if there's another sale for the V6 upgrade I might go for it after all... so I literally have no idea at this point.

I decided against it - V7 is probably around the corner with BF being just a little outside the grace-period... that and they still haven't even fixed the lanes-mess yet.

[THE INTRANCER]

Where's the voting-option "I don't know - we'll see"?

I'll probably not upgrade at full price, but if there's another sale for the V6 upgrade I might go for it after all... so I literally have no idea at this point.

I decided against it - V7 is probably around the corner with BF being just a little outside the grace-period... that and they still haven't even fixed the lanes-mess yet.

I wouldn't expect V7 till September next year, or if we are lucky, June.

[jens]

My money is rather on spring 2024 - the release cycles got shorter and shorter again these last few years... and 6.5 was pretty substantial so my guess is there won't be a 6.6 - rather one or two further mainteance releases and then... I predict March-May 2024... let's see.

[tonedef71]

I had predicted we would see support for the CLAP plugin format in Studio One 6, but clearly my forecast was way off. PreSonus did give us Atmos, though.

[THE INTRANCER]

I'll be willing to expect that the Linux version will be ready to be released as a fully functional version by the time 7.0 comes out, which for me is another nice option to choose from.

[Patrice Brousseau]

Done! Except a 5.5 project that crashed 6.5.1 (I had to copy the tracks from 5.5 and rebuild the project, looked it didn’t liked my old Kontakt 5 template - now updated to Kontakt 6 anyway), all is well.

All settings and files from 5.5 were retained: MIDI controllers, paths, IO setup, etc…

I’ll still keep 5.5 for a while, just to be sure that I’ll be able to open all the previous files.

[jamcat]

I had predicted we would see support for the CLAP plugin format in Studio One 6, but clearly my forecast was way off. PreSonus did give us Atmos, though.

Interest in CLAP was never very high in the wider audio world, and it seems to have only died down even more after the initial excitement, to whatever extent it existed.

The problem with CLAP is it’s redundant. There are no CLAP-only plugins, or CLAP-only hosts. So there is no incentive to invest the time and money into developing support for it.

Further complicating it is that the one unique thing that CLAP could bring to the audio world is an industry standard MIDI plugin format, but it seems no DAW developer wants that, as they seem to much prefer having proprietary MIDI plugins and tools to set themselves apart.

CLAP’s potential to provide 3rd party developers an in back into creating universal MIDI plugins may actually harm its chances of gaining support from DAW developers.