Today, it seems.Presonus mentioned they would be releasing 3-4 major updates a year. Anyone know when these MAJOR updates are supposed to be coming?
I love 'em. I almost never have to open an effect's GUI any more, it's f**king brilliant!I can't believe there isn't a way to turn micro views off. It's one of the reasons I've stayed on Studio One 5. I hate those things.
How do you figure that when they ditched their entry-level versions and there is no way to try the software without subscribing?Either by design or accident, with v7 they decided to prioritise new customers over existing ones.
It's not that, it's that these are all extremely mature applications now, there are no major features to add to any of them. Honestly, what would count as a major update? The upgrade to v7 brought a clip launcher but that kind of filled the last gap in the major feature list, so what else are they going to do that won't piss more people off than it pleases? People need to temper their expectations.Let's be honest: have there been so many celebrations regarding DAW upgrades in the past year? Logic? Bitwig? Cubase? For the most part, I've read a lot of complaining. We're spoiled by choices. Maybe we've reached peak consumption.
So maybe without them, Presonus would already be dead and buried? Did that ever occur to you? Do you think they sold their business because they wanted to? Seems unlikely to me.Presonus died the day that hedge fund bros Servco Pacific, (who also own Fender), bought them out. These f#cking bean counters could give a rat's behind about longtime loyal customers. They're only after a quick cash grab. Then they'll probably let it die and sell off whatever's left. It won't be the first time and probably not the last.
Three years later is hardly "RIGHT AFTER". They "merged" with Fender in 2021, all the events you listed occurred in 2024. I've been involved in similar acquisitions - when Autodesk acquired Alias/Wavefront and, later, Softimage - and it doesn't take three years for the new owners to start cutting back if that's their goal.Oh I see. So you're saying it's merely a coincidence that Presonus shut down their forum, threw their longtime loyal users under the bus, screwed potential new users by eliminating Artist & Prime, (and didn't even replace them with a demo), came up with this BS subscription model and released the worst "upgrade" to S1 in it's history RIGHT AFTER they were bought out and Servco Execs had absolutely nothing to do with it? Is that what you're saying?
Clearly not, as the emails arrived today.NAMM was really their last chance, IMHO, to announce an update to version 7, and stay on their own announced schedule of 3-4 updates per year.
Why not, they've been doing it for years. How many updates to v6 were there? 6 or 7 in 18 months or so.It was unlikely they could do that many updates in a year...
Statistics: Posted by BONES — Thu Jan 30, 2025 12:43 am