[Tom Evans]

On 2014-12-06 14:34:25 -0800, flatfish+++ said:

On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:23:35 -0500, Mike Rivers wrote:

On 12/6/2014 1:43 PM, Tom Evans wrote:
Am I right that the version of Studio One for making pro-quality music
for publishing would be the $499 "Studio One 2 Professional" version?

It's the USER that makes pro-quality music, not the program. The
difference between the versions is how many goodies they give you. And
they always have sales. Check the PreSonus web site. You just missed
their Black Friday deal, but maybe it's been extended like just about
everyone else's.

Bingo.

I didn't see sale prices there.


Why don't you download the free version and try it. It comes with a
handful of instruments so you can play with it and decide if you can
make pro quality music with it, knowing that if the only thing that
doesn't sound "professional" to you is the sounds, you can make that
better by throwing money at it.

Can't I do that using Garageband? I don't have much money to throw.

+1 again.
I see so many people DAW hopping, wasting money and looking for the
holy grail.
Ain't no such thing. That green grass will have some brown patches in
a couple of weeks and the user will end up DAW hopping again.

Spend the money on some decent VSTi.

Is there great libraries of sounds (that you call VSTI) that a

1. Mac-compatible and
2. work well in Garageband and
3 are reasonably priced?

I looked at East West but it costs $700, which is far more than my budget.

I'd be happy to stick with Garageband because the format is simple,
compared to the other programs I've viewed, but there aren't many good
instrument sounds.

Tom