On 2014-12-06 16:24:58 -0800, flatfish+++ said:
On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 16:20:42 -0800, Tom Evans wrote:
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.
Look again....
https://shop.presonus.com/products/Software-Specials
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.
I dunno.
You're the one complaining about the sounds in Garageband.
Thanks, Flatfish.
What I mean is: Instead of spending $325 for Studio One Professional 2
and then having to spend a lot of time shopping for maybe another $325
to add more instrument sounds to Stuido One for a total of about maybe
$700 or $800, can't I just buy insturment sounds to add to Garageband
for less money than that, since I'm being advised strongly here not to
change my music-making program.
I don't like most of the sounds that come with Garageband and
Mainstage, so I'm looking for a better package of instrument sounds
that I can add to Garageband, if that's feasible.
Tom
+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