PreSonus Studio One+ 6-month Hybrid Subscription for $99

[Moon OverSea]

4 hours ago, JT music said:

Take a good look at Thomann, above they are wrong, $80 is not the Hybida, it is only the 6 month old(no Hybrid) , the Hybida is $149

https://www.thomannmusic.com/presonus_sphere_annual_membership.htm

It's a Hybrid, but only 6 months without  free Studio One Professional permanent  license. Should buy Two 6 months and regist them before the expire of first one to get the Studio One Professional permanent  license.

 

If you buy the new interface Quantum ES, this 6 month's of lisence will be given freely now, so only buy another one to upgrade to the One Year Hybrid and get the Studio One Professional permanent  license.
https://www.presonus.com/en-US/quantum-es.html

Edited May 28 by Moon OverSea

[Sander Verstraten]

54 minutes ago, Moon OverSea said:

It's a Hybrid, but only 6 months without  free Studio One Professional permanent  license. Should buy Two 6 months and regist them before the expire of first one to get the Studio One Professional permanent  license.

 

If you buy the new interface Quantum ES, this 6 month's of lisence will be given freely now, so only buy another one to upgrade to the One Year Hybrid and get the Studio One Professional permanent  license.
https://www.presonus.com/en-US/quantum-es.html

The product seems the exist for this use case only: to give buyers of the new Interfaces the chance to get their hands on a perpetual licence on the 'cheap'. Though I would've preferred if they kept bundling the hardware with the Artist version.

[mettelus]

1 hour ago, Sander Verstraten said:

Though I would've preferred if they kept bundling the hardware with the Artist version.

Did they stop bundling Artist with hardware? I just looked at a few Revelator items and it seems to be what I remember. At least 6 months ago (before "Hybrid" was introduced), buying hardware included either Studio One Artist (perpetual) or the Studio One+ subscription for 6 months (that would expire, but includes "everything," a good chunk of which no one would ever use or care about).

Definitely read the fine print on all of these deals. Some hardware goes on sale as low as ~$50 with this included, but not sure how they folded in the new Hybrid approach or what hardware may have been modified.

[Soundwise]

3 hours ago, Moon OverSea said:

It's a Hybrid, but only 6 months without  free Studio One Professional permanent  license. Should buy Two 6 months and regist them before the expire of first one to get the Studio One Professional permanent  license.

 

If you buy the new interface Quantum ES, this 6 month's of lisence will be given freely now, so only buy another one to upgrade to the One Year Hybrid and get the Studio One Professional permanent  license.
https://www.presonus.com/en-US/quantum-es.html

This makes perfect sense.

Kudos to FMI/Presonus for creating this upgrade path.

[Starship Krupa]

9 hours ago, mettelus said:

Definitely read the fine print on all of these deals. Some hardware goes on sale as low as ~$50 with this included

Also be sure to check the serial number of any used PreSonus hardware you buy. There's a good chance that the previous owner may not have registered it, and you'll wind up with an upgradeable Artist license.

This was the case with a Studio 2|4 interface I got on CL for $30. It came with Studio One Artist 5, which I upgraded to Studio One Artist 6. Very important upgrade, they finally allowed use of 3rd-party VST's.

It wasn't easy finding the upgrade path, PreSonus didn't have it listed on their site so I had to buy it from a dealer in Europe.

[Heath Row]

Hey funny that, every time we passed through Europe we purchased some stuff from a dealer as well.?