I agree this one is buggy and need more to cook longer but they are working hard to fix and refine it. If you take a stroll thru the build logs as an old friend suggested I do you will see this noting new. Every year a new version comes out and it has a lot of new features many are small tweaks to things like the style or RT pickers. Many are refinements for the RTs, user tracks, and RDs. Enhancements to the piano and guitar windows, in 2016 I believe info was added to the RTs to allow them to stretch in other DAWs like Reaper and Sonar etc.

There have been literally hundreds of small refinements since 2011. And some really big ones. Not knowing your usage of the program it’s hard to say how much you will benefit. For me there has been a lot of useful changes.

I’m with you on the frustrations of them things that don’t work right out of the gate. Sometimes I have to be reminded that there is no other program that can do what this one does. I have seen folks suggest other one around here but on further inspection they simply do not even come close. This darn thing is deep and complicated. I for one have not even scratched the surface yet.

Only you can decide if it’s worth an upgrade. I just hate paying almost twice as much later in the year only to hear the next release is two months away. This years release is buggy but it is truly a biggie. I work in Studio one and last night I banged together a pretty cool sounding song bed for a concept I’m working on and while it took 3 minutes to render the tracks, and another 3 minutes to create a pretty cool solo riff. Inside an hour I had created, and mixed something I was pretty happy with.

I was thinking back to when I really got started with this stuff using acid pro. And how I cobbled together songs with painting and processing loops. Man I wish I had this then.

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