Fender To Acquire PreSonus Electronics

[ATN69]

Seems uncomfortably familiar somehow Gibson got Cakewalk and the rest is history. I like Studio One and I surely hope it's got a better future than Cakewalk got in the hands of Gibson.

[wuworld]

Selling all my Presonus stuff today, and canceling Sphere.

[AdvancedFollower]

Uh oh.... Studio One 6, subscription only, €79.99 a month.

[zvenx]

Does Fender have the same rep as Gibson though? (still very bitter ex opcode user here)
I don't think SB has suffered after its acquisition by Yamaha..
rsp

[digitalboytn]

Fender is just a brand name these days and it is managed by a private equity company...

The spirit of Leo left the building quite some time ago now

[HM]

Dammm ,... paid for the latest version .

My Cakewalk account was also rendered useless and discontinued

Reaper then

[fese]

Does Fender have the same rep as Gibson though? (still very bitter ex opcode user here)
I don't think SB has suffered after its acquisition by Yamaha..
rsp

No, but the users did with increasingly expensive updates

[zvenx]

Are you sure about that?
I think they just broke the updates into two parts but the sum remained more or less the same, no? (that is if one went from Cubase 4 to 5 and it cost $X, at some point when the .5 updates happened if you went from 9 to 9.5 and it cost $A, and then from 9.5 to 10 and it cost $B), that $X was roughly equal to $A + $B.

Is this not so?
rsp

[antic604]

Selling all my Presonus stuff today, and canceling Sphere.

Dammm ,... paid for the latest version .

My Cakewalk account was also rendered useless and discontinued

Reaper then

Seriously?

[digitalboytn]

Dammm ,... paid for the latest version .

My Cakewalk account was also rendered useless and discontinued

Reaper then

I was a long time Sonar user who switched to Reaper when Gibson bought Cakewalk and the transition took a little bit of time,but it has been well worth the effort...

But I am pleasantly surprised by BL's commitment to the Cakewalk DAW and it has been getting some love and attention...

It's still a bit of a tractor to drive compared to Reaper, but it's a solid and reliable DAW with some great features

[Teksonik]

Here's some information on the merger which still has to gain regulatory approval:

“Fender envisions an ecosystem that seamlessly integrates hardware and software to create an effortless end-to-end experience for customers at all levels in their creative journey,” the statement continued, “and joining forces with PreSonus makes that possible.”

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/fender ... s-presonus

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... 12539.html

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

[EDIT: Tek beat me to it]
Here's a link to the Press Release:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... 12539.html

...hopefully there's no significant impact to Studio One, but honestly I'm using Reaper pretty much full-time these days so this wouldn't have a huge impact on me. Unfortunately, it seems like there's just a lot of money out in the world these days with too few places for people to put it, so the stock market is hot, there's lots of capital all around, VC's gobbling things up...it usually ends badly (see Roli). That said, Fender has managed to continue to put out decent guitars (unless you hate those Pao Ferro fretboards) while being under private equity control for a while. Hopefully they let Presonus do their thing.

[chk071]

Seems uncomfortably familiar somehow Gibson got Cakewalk and the rest is history.

The Gibson/Cakewalk thing is absolutely not comparable.

And LOL @ the other panic here. I think the internet notoriously runs out of chill pills.

[ShawnG]

VC's gobbling things up...it usually ends badly (see Roli)

It doesn't "usually end badly" It ends badly sometimes. Nobody notices it unless it does end badly. not the same thing.

[Sinisterbr]

The only thing that concerns me right now is Studio One going subscription only.