Reply To: Free util to convert .cwp (CbB and earlier) to .song (Studio One)

[peter]

On bapu said

On timboalogo said

Hi all!

I registered at the Studio One site and it is 270 Cdn for a new user to get the Perpetual License, which is “Perpetual software license or license upgrade with one (1) year of new feature releases included.”

Does that mean you can always use it but don’t get updates after a year?

Tim

Yes, that is their new model. However each year after that the upgrade/update will be $149US (unless the resellers go for less like they did this year, $125US)

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I greatly appreciate that PreSonus offers a perpetual license option, but even PreSonus’ their way of doing their subscriptions is far more honest and a vastly superior option for consumers than BandLab’s subscription model.

With BandLab, when the customer stops paying the subscription fee their access to their projects ends. I’m confident that many BandLab / Sonar / Next customers will have no idea about this until it happens. So, every song they’ve created with Sonar or Next is inaccessible once they stop paying. With a PreSonus Studio One Pro subscription, if you stop paying your subscription fee Studio One Pro continues to let you access all of your projects, you just won’t be getting software updates. That, IMO, is an incredibly more honest and decent way to operate than the BandLab model.

BandLab’s Jonathan Sasor berating customers who simply asked if BandLab was still open to a future possibility of perpetual licenses spoke volumes of the corporate culture’s poor ethics and disrespect for customers. When your brand could learn lessons on ethics and listening to customers from Waves, you know that it has some major problems. #TeamPreSonus

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