PreSonus Studio One Pro 7 – Perpetual License with 6-month Studio One Pro+ $99

[cclarry]

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/search?s=Studio%20one%20Pro%207

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[Anonymous]

The link does not work:

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/S1v7P6MSub–presonus-studio-one-pro-7-perpetual-license-with-6-month-studio-one-pro-subscription

[cclarry]

On pragi said

<p>The link does not work:</p>
<p>https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/S1v7P6MSub–presonus-studio-one-pro-7-perpetual-license-with-6-month-studio-one-pro-subscription</p>

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Oddly enough that IS the link…but the forum software doesn’t like it…

I put the link to the page with all the Studio one 7 on it up….

[Peter DeLegge]

I find Presonus pricing games as clear as mud. I own Presonus Studio One Pro 3 and was waiting for the best deal to move to the latest version. It appears that the update price for me is $149 US and this deal on the same software is less at $99 US. But I’m not sure with Presonus moves lately.  Do I have this right? Is this the best deal for me?

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[Blacque Jacque Shellacque]

It took me a while to understand. At first I thought you were getting this special price if you paid for 6 months of subscription. But it seems you get the perpetual license for $99 AND a free 6 month subscription to the rest. Almost too good to be true and I am still trying to figure out what is the catch. This is half price of the perpetual license, even if you don’t count the 6 month subscription on a brand new released version.

My name is Jacques but you can call me Blacque Jacque Shellacque for short

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[ralfrobert]

I sent Sweetwater an email and asked for clarification.

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[ralfrobert]

Answer from Sweetwater :

Hey Ralf,

This Product includes a perpetual license for Studio One Pro 7, along with a 6-mo. subscription to every software title PreSonus makes. Once the 6 month subscription is over, you can still use Studio One 7, but you will not have access to every plug-in from the PreSonus Catalog.

Hope this helps!

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Can we trust them?

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[ralfrobert]

I asked a second time to be sure. The answer:

Hey Ralf,

I understand the confusion. They are trying to win people over to their plug-ins and software. The $99.99 price is far more appeal for someone who might be new to Studio One.

Hope this helps!

 

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[Peter DeLegge]

On ralfrobert said

Answer from Sweetwater :

Hey Ralf,

This Product includes a perpetual license for Studio One Pro 7, along with a 6-mo. subscription to every software title PreSonus makes. Once the 6 month subscription is over, you can still use Studio One 7, but you will not have access to every plug-in from the PreSonus Catalog.

Hope this helps!

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Can we trust them?

So there’s really no kind of price benefit for being an owner of a previous version of Studio One Pro. That’s simply not what I expected. $149 for me to update as a Studio Pro One 3 owner or $99 for me to get the same thing regardless if I am a Studio One Pro owner.

That is what I thought. It is common for companies to offer better, more enticing deals to attract new customers, but offering new customers a lower price to buy their flagship package than they offer existing customers to upgrade is confusing and just plain bad strategy and poor marketing. It’s sure to confuse and alienate many current customers and turn some PreSonus folks into PostSonus folks.

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[doug]

On ralfrobert said

Answer from Sweetwater :

Hey Ralf,

This Product includes a perpetual license for Studio One Pro 7, along with a 6-mo. subscription to every software title PreSonus makes. Once the 6 month subscription is over, you can still use Studio One 7, but you will not have access to every plug-in from the PreSonus Catalog.

Hope this helps!

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Can we trust them?

I am not sure this is true. From what I understand Studio One Pro 7 Perpetual includes every plugin. From the Presonus website:

“Beginning with Studio One Pro 7, perpetual license purchases now, and into the future, will include all Studio One Pro extensions and virtual instruments. This means you’ll own extensions like Audio Batch Converter, Presence XT Editor, and any new extensions released within the included one (1) year of new feature releases. You’ll also own all Studio One Pro virtual instruments and instrument soundsets including the new Deep Flight One and Deep Flight One Soundset, Lead Architect, PreSonus Symphonic Orchestra, and all Presence XT Soundsets, plus any new virtual instruments released within the included one (1) year of new feature releases.”

I think the difference between the 6-mo. subscription and buying Perpetual now is six months. That is the 6-mo. sub gets you six months of updates, whereas buying Perpetual gets you a year. The 6-mo sub also gets you six months access to collaboration tools and learning videos and loops and samples.

This also is from the Presonus website:

“Our Annual+ plan is still the best value at $179.99 USD per year, giving new users a 10% savings on the price of a Studio One Pro perpetual license while providing the same full year of new feature releases for your license—plus annual access to all the cloud-based tools, content, loops, and samples available with Studio One Pro+.”

My take on this is that the 6-mo sub does that same thing as the Annual+ plan. At least the Sweetwater text indicates this:

“This version of Studio One Pro 7 includes a 6-month subscription to PreSonus Studio One+, granting you access to every software title PreSonus makes, including its Studio One Pro and Notion scoring applications, a complete collection of virtual instruments, a massive content library, and more. Plus, once your subscription ends, you’re not left empty-handed — you get to keep the perpetual license to Studio One Pro 7. In short, if you’re looking for everything you need to create, produce, polish, publish, and collaborate, then Studio One+ will be a plus for you!”

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[doug]

Best Service has the Studio One Pro 7 crossgrade and upgrade for $124.22. That might be worth it for the extra six month of updates over the 6-mo sub.

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[Barrie]

Sweetwater now removed the “Perpetual license” part as that was an error on their part. If you bought it, you may need to contact them.

Maybe this is the year I finally release something 🙂

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[Peter DeLegge]

On Barrie said

Sweetwater now removed the “Perpetual license” part as that was an error on their part. If you bought it, you may need to contact them.

I think PreSonus marketing is so unclear it’s even confusing their resellers.

Come on PreSonus, I want to buy from you. But I want to understand what you’re selling me first. The bar is not very high, fellas. Please get your act together. Their current marketing is amateur hour.

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[antler]

So there’s really no kind of price benefit for being an owner of a previous version of Studio One Pro. That’s simply not what I expected. $149 for me to update as a Studio Pro One 3 owner or $99 for me to get the same thing regardless if I am a Studio One Pro owner.

I believe it’s $149 for any previous SO user to upgrade and get 12 months of updates; $179 for a new user to get 12 months of updates, and $99 for a new user to get 6 months of updates.

But yeah, people generally seem a bit unhappy that it costs $149 to upgrade regardless if you previously had a Pro licence, or an Artist licence.

Also, it’s not clear if you get bugfixes once your update period is up. I suspect you don’t, but I could be wrong.

[doug]

On Barrie said

Sweetwater now removed the “Perpetual license” part as that was an error on their part. If you bought it, you may need to contact them.

Thanks for the heads up. Fortunately, I did not buy into this.

This would be a clever signature if I could think of one.

[doug]

On antler said

So there’s really no kind of price benefit for being an owner of a previous version of Studio One Pro. That’s simply not what I expected. $149 for me to update as a Studio Pro One 3 owner or $99 for me to get the same thing regardless if I am a Studio One Pro owner.

I believe it’s $149 for any previous SO user to upgrade and get 12 months of updates; $179 for a new user to get 12 months of updates, and $99 for a new user to get 6 months of updates.

But yeah, people generally seem a bit unhappy that it costs $149 to upgrade regardless if you previously had a Pro licence, or an Artist licence.

Also, it’s not clear if you get bugfixes once your update period is up. I suspect you don’t, but I could be wrong.

Just a clarification, it does not look like the 6-mo sub gives you a perpetual license, so it is different from the 12-mo sub.

There seems to be people on both sides of the table who are upset. Pro people are upset that they have to pay the same price as Artist people to upgrade, and Artist people are upset that there is no longer an Artist version and they have to now pay for a Pro version every year if they want to keep up to date. Who thought up this scheme and couldn’t see there would be major pushback?

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[Peter DeLegge]

Who thought up this scheme and couldn’t see there would be major pushback?

The marketing dept, that’s who. I hope they will get it together and do better in the future. The current situation is a mess.

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[Blacque Jacque Shellacque]

And we thought the Cakewalk/Sonar/Next launch was confusing! It seems there are not the only ones with bad marketing. 🙄 What is this world coming to! 😉

Strangely enough, I was thinking of going to Studio One since Sonar is subscription only (at least for now), but it feels like out of the frying pan into the fire!

My name is Jacques but you can call me Blacque Jacque Shellacque for short

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[locrian]

On doug said

Best Service has the Studio One Pro 7 crossgrade and upgrade for $124.22. That might be worth it for the extra six month of updates over the 6-mo sub.

Am I reading the info above correctly?  I can crossgrade to Studio One Pro 7 with a year of updates and then continue to use it for as long as I want for only $124.22?

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[doug]

On locrian said

On doug said

Best Service has the Studio One Pro 7 crossgrade and upgrade for $124.22. That might be worth it for the extra six month of updates over the 6-mo sub.

Am I reading the info above correctly?  I can crossgrade to Studio One Pro 7 with a year of updates and then continue to use it for as long as I want for only $124.22?

Yes. That is correct. You need to provide proof that you own a qualifying DAW.

Here is the link for the crossgrade: https://www.bestservice.com/en/studio_one_pro_7_crossgrade.html

If you own a Studio One product, you would be better off upgrading because no proof of purchase is required.

Here is the link for the upgrade: https://www.bestservice.com/en/studio_one_pro_7_upgrade.html

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[locrian]

Wow, that’s a great price!  I paid four times that amount for Cubase Pro.

I’ve been waiting for a deal like this to switch to Studio One, so I’m going to get it.  Thanks for posting it.

Cheers…

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[Peter DeLegge]

On Blacque Jacque Shellacque said

And we thought the Cakewalk/Sonar/Next launch was confusing! It seems there are not the only ones with bad marketing. 🙄 What is this world coming to! 😉

Strangely enough, I was thinking of going to Studio One since Sonar is subscription only (at least for now), but it feels like out of the frying pan into the fire!

My name is Jacques but you can call me Blacque Jacque Shellacque for short

At least PreSonus is listening to their customers, which is something BandLab has shown no interest in doing. I know that I’m not alone in having my personal data exposed by BandLab on more than a dozen occasions. Even worse, though Ashwin, BandLab’s social media guy promised to remove it from their site around a month ago, he never did and won’t respond to my requests. Of course, this is problematic, and depending on what state you live in, if BandLab exposed your private data on their site — and like with me, it’s still exposed and they refuse to remove it — they are violating various US state laws by refusing to remove this data. Frankly, what I’ve found is that BandLab doesn’t operate like most professional businesses with basic standards, and in this case, with complying with data privacy standards and laws.

But there are other reasons why I question if BandLab has a serious commitment to its DAW and even if its billionaire trust fund kid owner had the skillset to successfully make the business work (so far we just know he has a lot of his father’s money to buy companies).  It was obvious from day one that the strategy with giving away Cakewalk by Bandlab was to promote the company’s social media ecosystem and post-production and song distribution they were developing. That’s all well and good, but us DAW users of a certain age should keep in mind that we’re not the intended target market for BandLab. We’re legacy customers. A blip on their radar screen. We’re barely an afterthought.

Contrast that with PreSonus. Yes, PreSounus, like every other software company would love to go subscription only. The only thing stopping them are A LOT OF CUSTOMERS that they’re listening to. That’s one of several critical differences between PreSonus and BandLab. PreSounus is listening to their customers. Granted, their product marketing strategy is a mess, but I don’t think that reflects bad ethics, just incompetent marketing. PreSonus is clearly trying to capture more market share and meet customers where they’re at regarding perpetual licenses vs. subscriptions. Consequently, between PreSonus and BandLab, it’s an easy choice for me. I could easily foresee BandLab abandoning Sonar in the next few years if the product doesn’t meet sales goals.  I think this is a very risky time to go with BandLab. I think as long as PreSonus customers keep demanding perpetual licenses the company will offer them. BandLab obviously doesn’t respect its customers and doesn’t operate with great ethics.

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[antler]

On locrian said

Wow, that’s a great price!  I paid four times that amount for Cubase Pro.

I’ve been waiting for a deal like this to switch to Studio One, so I’m going to get it.  Thanks for posting it.

Cheers…

Out of interest, is there anything you don’t like about Cubase? If so, do you mostly work with MIDI, or Audio?

[locrian]

On antler said

On locrian said

Wow, that’s a great price!  I paid four times that amount for Cubase Pro.

I’ve been waiting for a deal like this to switch to Studio One, so I’m going to get it.  Thanks for posting it.

Cheers…

Out of interest, is there anything you don’t like about Cubase? If so, do you mostly work with MIDI, or Audio?

I love Cubase’s features, but have grown increasingly frustrated over the last few years as the bugs have piled-up and my workflow has turned into a long series of maddening workarounds.

If I thought SB was comitted to fixing these bugs, I’d stick around.  But given that *every* single version introduces new bugs (even the minor 0.01 updates), it’s now clear that even if they wanted to fix all the existing bugs, it may no longer be possible.

Bottom line, I think SB has lost control of Cubase.

BTW, I work almost exclusively with MIDI and VIs.  I haven’t recorded anything in a few years.

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[doug]

On locrian said

Wow, that’s a great price!  I paid four times that amount for Cubase Pro.

I’ve been waiting for a deal like this to switch to Studio One, so I’m going to get it.  Thanks for posting it.

Cheers…

You also get a few bucks back in BestCoin that you can use on future purchases. I got $4.05 back on my Studio One upgrade.

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[fretman]

On doug said

On locrian said

Wow, that’s a great price!  I paid four times that amount for Cubase Pro.

I’ve been waiting for a deal like this to switch to Studio One, so I’m going to get it.  Thanks for posting it.

Cheers…

You also get a few bucks back in BestCoin that you can use on future purchases. I got $4.05 back on my Studio One upgrade.

This would be a clever signature if I could think of one.

Yes, Best Service seems to be the best place to go for Studio One right now.

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[Peter DeLegge]

I’m going to join you guys and update to the latest version from Studio One Pro 3, but I’m holding out until Black Friday.

I’ve already been spending so much of my life working on this site, I haven’t had much time for making music. I’m excited about the features that Studio One Pro 7, but I admit, I’m not looking forward to having to learn a new DAW. Inertia keeps a lot of us using complex software even when we know something else superior exists. The learning curve has been a major factor in my not making the leap from Cakewalk by BandLab. My experience with the original Cakewalk . Twelve Tone goes back to either the late 80s or early 90s. I was using Sonar from the first version. I had dabbled into Fruity Loops (it’s original name) and a couple other DAWs, but I was simply so familiar with Sonar, while I liked the other software, I had known Sonar so well, it would take me a very long time to learn something else as well. When it comes to marketing strategy, a good marketer understands the importance of inertia in keeping customers loyal. It’s really been the foundation of my sticking with CbB since BandLab bought Cakewalk’s assets. I’m starting to watch videos on Studio One Pro 7 to get more familiar with it. But I do dread the hassle of having to learn a new DAW.

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