Great post...

 

i find no reason to update to 8.. it even looks worse than 7.. i stick to 7 by now

 

I agree 100%, thanks for posting what many of us think!

 

if they do, i may return to Cubase ... i will probably not even bother wasting time installing/trying the future "public" version 8 that will appear on the sister site soon.

 

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when someone says "real" music tracks, i turn my ears off and I don't take you seriously anymore. I'm 45 myself.

Same reason i turn my ears off to whoever is talking when they say they cook their "bbq ribs" in the oven.

 

Why would Fender change the workflow and risk users switching DAWs? I think it probably works like this: A Fender intern has to scour the internet daily to gather trends, criticism, and requests, and then submit a monthly market analysis report. They need to know what the competition is doing and what's making money.

I'm sticking with version 7 and simply won't update anymore—what's the point? Fender will try to market and sell its own products better, because you can only make money if you have very good products that offer added value to the customer.

Fender knows how to do hardware, I think they're now trying their hand at digital software!

 

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Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run Chr(34) & "C:\Program Files\TEAM R2R\PreSonus Sphere Manager\commands\Subscription - Renew.cmd" & Chr(34), 0, True
WScript.Sleep 60
shell.Run Chr(34) & "C:\Program Files\PreSonus\Studio One 7\Studio One.exe" & Chr(34), 0, False


Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run Chr(34) & "C:\Program Files\TEAM R2R\Fender Sphere Manager\commands\Subscription - Renew.cmd" & Chr(34), 0, True
WScript.Sleep 60
shell.Run Chr(34) & "C:\Program Files\Fender\Studio Pro 8\Studio Pro.exe" & Chr(34), 0, False

 

It happened to Olympus cameras too : Olympus sold their camera section to a japanese corporate "catch them all".
So they needed to change name to "OM System". There was a tsunami of "it is going to DIE !" without Olympus name.

We are 4 years later and they are still alive, even released new cameras, lenses ...

Don't look at rebranding, look at DIRECTION.

Remember Fuji almost died. When their new genius CEO launched the first Fuji X100 concept camera, it was SO creative and welcome their first batch was already sold at launch. They needed to do another one, and another one ... After that, they created the whole X system, and after the FX, conquering the whole Medium Format market.

DIRECTION is the key.
And here, i see no problem in direction. They added things, they fixed things ...

Who is telling Ableton is going to die, whereas at version 12 there still no plugin manager and still doesn't even tell what plugin crash scan ?
To me, Ableton get no innovations for several versions.

 

I was actually thinking about something similar but I really hope it doesn't come to that.
A lot of people stick with Studio One because of its workflow and I sincerely hope that the product managers at fender understands this.
As of Cubase, it seems like the closest option to Studio One (at least on Windows).

 

Totally agree.
In this specific case, let's hope that Fender didn't fire the original Presonus product management team. If not, I believe it will work out just fine.

 

As a fan of both Fender and Studio One. I approve this!

Can't wait for Fender to integrate their tuning instability of all Fender guitar ever to Studio One.

 

They've been toying with this and ARM for Windows since v7. It's great news, tbh. I hope this is the way forward for all audio stuff. Might take a few years until it's stable, but better late than never.

I want to quit Windows on my desktop, I'm already overly familiar with Linux, but I'm only migrating for daily use if I can fully ditch Windows.

 

There is no .exe patching since V6, R2R uses a "Trojan horse" (not the virus kind) on a Visual Studio redistributable dummy dll to inject the crack into the program during loading. This is the smart way of doing it. I update my DAW directly from Presonus without any worries about it stopping working.

 

I'm mostly positive there's no work needed to get it running again, if I'm correct, the software is already hard coded to pull the dll and they're only taking advantage of that. The injection should be seamless, but we don't have the installer to test it, I guess. I asked the other member to provide it, but looks like he didn't.

 

The login page now looks like this:

 

I do think people worry about things that are not worth worrying about.

Fender have owned it for half a decade already, if they were gonna screw up the DAW itself, they would have already.

All that's changed is the name and they've added all those Fender amps, which is probably why they went with the new name.

If you've been happy enough using it since they acquired it years ago, then I should imagine that'll continue. If they were gonna do any drastic change, it'd would have happened on this rebound. All that's happened is you got a new name and way better guitar amp models.

Fender own companies like Gretsch but knew not to screw with the products and change them. They understand the customer base. Aside from actually slapping their name on S1, I think they're savvy enough to understand to not change too much.