Software for making music.
50% off Studio one and Notion ends Friday.
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Presonus Studio One 3 Pro (~$270AUD), Notion 6 (~$100AUD), 50% off Sale (Audio Software)
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Cheaper here ($168.98 in cart ~$222 AUD although you'll need a free account and to add it to your cart to see that price)
As a general rule, sites like Audiodeluxe and jrrshop almost always offer extra savings once a vendor announces a sale price…
How does this compare to Reason or Live? Better or worse?
in the spirit of ozbargain, I'd recommend Reaper and some free VSTs
but you could make good music on any of them really, best to try free trials if they offer them and see which you like best…
I previously used Reaper which is incredibly powerful and a great price, but Reaper seemed to get progressively worse from a usability perspective, particularly when using VSTs like Kontakt/Komplete. I like my music tools to just make things happen, not get in my way, and I found Reaper got in my way more and more as they added more features.
I now use Studio One 3 and it's a love-hate relationship. I love how incredibly easy it is to use, and how seamless many of the functions are. I took very little time to become comfortable using it (a few quirks, but all software has them). The way it handles multi-instrument VSTs like Kontakt is miles ahead of Reaper.
However the two big downsides I've faced are:
* it doesn't support 32- or 64-bit bridging of VSTs, so if you install the 32 bit version you need 32 bit VSTs, and similar for 64 bit. Reaper and many other DAWs have bridging built in and work beautifully in my experience, so not sure why the developers believe it's so hard. (They've said they don't intend to support bridging.) I ended up biting the bullet and getting JBridge to do it for me, and it has worked nicely.
* for some reason VSTs are miles more CPU intensive under Studio One than Reaper. Some Kontakt instruments (such as a grand piano I have that does sympathetic resonance etc. and can easily have 250 voices playing at once) will stutter and choke under Studio One and the CPU will go to 100%, whereas Reaper will handle them without missing a beat and only use 30% CPU. According to the forums it's a common issue.
If you only want it for audio then I can't really comment because I've only used it for MIDI stuff.
Notion I downloaded and intended to play with but never got round to it so I can't comment on what it's like to use.