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Comment by tokamak-teapot | Hacker News Reader

What are the upgrade prices like? I might like to buy it, but I don't want a huge bill for upgrading every major version.

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$229 for Suite upgrade. I love Live, but it’s getting harder to keep justifying additional money into it as a hobbyist. I might give Logic another go (purchased years ago and still getting free updates), even though it has always felt less intuitive to me than Live for whatever reason.

Edit: I’ve seen other folks online posting a price of $183 for Suite upgrade, so I would just login and see what price they give you. I think I came from Suite 9, so maybe that accounts for the price difference.

Wow that's a lot for Suite, specially if you shelled at full price. I hope there's discounts once the hype goes away.

I loved Live when I had a chance to use it, but to quote the professor I had at the time - it's "so bloody expensive".

As an amateur, it's extremely hard to justify the doubling of the price of FL. (The $100 edition of Live is limited to 16 tracks so don't even bother.)

This is why I ultimately switched over to FL Studio. I don't make money off of music, and with work and family rarely have the time to spend on it. Live's high upgrade costs seemed wasted on me. With FL Studio, it's a single lifetime licence. Mind you the UX is not nearly as nice as Live and it's much more geared to in-studio producing than live use, so obviously won't work for everyone.

Standard Live 10 -> 11 is 159. It's nested behind a bunch of links.

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