Presonus Studio One, is now Fender Studio Pro

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:winking_face_with_tongue:

Very peculiar marketing to me, even though I understand what it is, for someone who doesn’t, I would think it would give the appearance of being a less serious bundled type software to sell guitars and other products… Which I guess is how Studio One started, Presonus selling it with their interfaces - but, that’s a lot more logical than a old guitar brand.

Seeing a lot of people “switching to Cubase” in video comments.

Fender Studio Pro 8 : Disappointing | It’s BAD ( so far ).

People ARE DONE With Studio One! Visceral Reactions to Fender Changing the name to Studio Pro!

Studio One Is Gone… Is Fender Studio 8 the Beginning of the End?

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Cubase VS Other Daws, missing features
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Well, at least they do have a usable Linux version. Let’s just hope they don’t do to software what they did with guitars.

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Hey, it could be a good thing, right. Like when Gibson bought Cakewalk. /s

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Actually that did turn out to be good in the long run: it’s why I’m a Cubase user now. But yeah, me and everyone else were 50 different shades of massively pissed at the time.

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I was a Cakewalk Sonar user for over 10 years. I stuck with Gibson’s Sonar and Henry J. When that went under, I tried Studio One, Reaper and Cubase. S1 was OK (v3) but I liked Cubase much better.

Bandlab acquired Sonar and essentially gave away for free what I had paid quite a bit for as well as promoting a future sales model I had no interest in.
Last I Iooked, the new Bandlab Sonar had finally settled into a subscription model. You can’t even get the old free Sonar anymore without a subscription or joining Bandlab or something. So I don’t really consider this a positive development.

(Presonus already tried the subscription model with S1 a few years ago with less than stellar acceptance.)

Running a DAW company is a kind of a unique thing. Not easy. I know Yamaha owns Steinberg but I don’t see the Yamaha logo anywhere on Steiny products.

Hey, I hope Fender Studio works out but I am not sure I would buy a Fender guitar right now not to mention a Fender DAW.

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You’d think Steinberg would take advantage of this and offer a crossgrade sale

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Steinberg gave us Cakewalk folks a very good cross-grade deal when Gibson shut Cakewalk down.Made moving to Cubase a no-brainer for me.

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Well your story/comment is just about identical to mine. And many others as well Im sure.

I was running Cakewaalk since it started out in 1995. It was run by Twelve Tone, and then Roland. That was the best time with Roland. I spoke to a guy at Roland and he sent me a CD with TTS synth on it for free to try out a long time before it was released into Cakewalk.
I bought most upgrades along the way right up to the top line Sonar Versions.

Soon after Gibson got involved it all went downhill fast.
It was trashed. Full of Bugs they couldnt fix, endless crashes etc.

Then Bandlab made it free for the stripped out basic version. All my existing Premium plug ins and extra functionality still worked though, so that was good, whereas Bandlab was pretty basic in comparison.

Even so I was less pleased with the whole situation. I paid a lot of money into Cakewalk and Sonar. About 6 weeks after my final ‘paid for update’, was when Bandlab started to give it away. for free as ‘Cakewalk by Bandlab’. Im sure Cakewalk must have know that they were taking large amounts of cash, while at the same time knowing that they were about to ditch it to Bandlab.
The persception was now that it was a FREE beginners DAW.

I went to try Reaper, and Studio One. I went with Studio One for about a year, and they had the monthly Subscription model. I didnt like that, so I looked around and thought I would give Cubase a go.

Plenty of Musos I knew used it. I bought a competitive Crossgrade from Sonar to Cubase Pro.
Ive been with cubase ever since. I love it.
It has taken me a while to learn it, but Im finally getting somewhere at last. I probably dont have that much longer to enjoy or benefit from it fully as Im almost 62 years of age, and I dont gig anymore etc. So the whole DAW journey has been a rocky one. Frustrating and time wasting. But hey ho, thats life.

I still have my home studio so am doing a few songs.

Cubase is great, but I feel sorry for all thos Studio One guys out there. I doubt if it will work out well from what I have looked at on youtube. I feel that Fender Studio Pro is/will turn it into a guitar App, and not a serious DAW.

The likes of ‘Joe Gilder’ are putting on a brave face, but I will watch with interest to see how long that lasts.

I hope Im wrong. I usually am. :grin:

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I’m 72. And I expect to still be using it when I’m 82.

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I too was shocked when I saw the “Fender” transition. At first I thought it was just some cheap piece of software that they were trying to sell. Then when I realized what they did I was shocked. I believe 100% that they did a GREAT disservice to the software. It now gives the impression that it’s a little further down the totem pole as far as DAWs go.

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I can already hear the chatter amongst “management consultants” not long out of short trousers, ink still wet on their MBAs …
“Why do we need several products that do the same thing?”
“The monetization strategy is currently non-optimal”
“We need to add the ‘Pro’ to the name.”

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Cool, thats great to hear.
I dont intend to give up making music at all, but I think being realistic, if I do a few gigs, they will be pretty low key. I used a DAW primarily for creating and editing all our ‘Tracks’ when performing in a group. These days Im learning how to produce a whole arrangement, pretty much for fun.

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I was watching a video from NAMM and the Fender guy was saying that they want Fender to be thought of as being part of the entire eco-system when people think of their products. Basically, you can do it all with Fender.

I’m not buying it (figuratively speaking). Before you know it they’ll have…

Fender Pro - American Vintage

Fender Pro - Player

Fender Pro - 1962

Fender Pro - USA Made

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You forgot “snot-nosed”

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Good evening,

I made a choice between Studio One 7 and Cubase Artist.

Today, I am on Cubase Pro 15.

But I continue to use Sonar 8.3.1, which works on Windows 11.

The only drawback is that Dimension Pro, Rapture LE, Beatscape, Z3ta+, Session Drummer 2 do not work in Cubase because they are VST2 (dll).

So either I use FL Studio 2025 to continue enjoying these excellent virtual instruments.

I uninstalled Cakewalk by BandLab and Studio One 6, two DAWs, which is already quite a lot to manage.

Musical friendship

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If that’s the only drawback, you can enable VST2 in Cubase 15, menu Studio|VST Plug-in Manager, top right corner.
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You plug-ins should work as long as they are 64-bit. You may need to set the path to them in the Manager.

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Are on Mac with an ARM processor? Maybe you can still run Cubase in Rosetta modem which allows using VST2 plugins, does it not?

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I’m pretty sure that’s only if they are 64bit VST2s, even with Rosetta. You can’t even run 32bit VST2s in BlueCat Patchwork on Apple Silicon under Rosetta. But maybe it’s already 64bit, in which case “yes, it should work.”

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Hello MrSoundMan and thank you for your response.

I actually tried to reactivate VST2, but Cubase Pro on my Acer Aspire 3 15 PC with AMD Ryzen 5000 series 7 completely froze.

I probably made a mistake. I will try again.

Dimension Pro, Rapture LE, Session Drummer, SFZ, Z3TA+, Pentagon are all in 64-bit.

Have a good day.

Musical regards.