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nathananstice
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Apr 26, 2017 4:35 PM UTC
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One-off purchase of Audition

Hello! This has probably been asked before but can't see anything for it.

Just wondering if it is possible to purchase Audition as a one time purchase? I don't want to be paying each month for it as IMO that's just money grabbing nonsense. I love the older versions of Audition and have used them at a few workplaces previously, but would love to have the latest copy at home to use for some volunteering work I do for the local hospital radio. (Registered charity 508017 if interested).

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    emmrecsCorrect answer
    Legend
    Apr 26, 2017 5:46 PM UTC

    All versions of Audtion after CS6 are strictly subscription only.  Yes, it is a pain!

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    default0fkbi4v6jrar
    Participant
    Dec 6, 2020 2:23 PM UTC

    Are you kidding me? So if I have Audition for 5 years it's going to cost me $1,260.00!!!???

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    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    Dec 6, 2020 5:54 PM UTC

    If you have just Audition, then yes. It's a lot better value if you do what Adobe would like, and have the whole CC suite...

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    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    Dec 6, 2020 6:06 PM UTC

    And if you are wondering why it's like this, you can blame the US government fair and square. They rushed through the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation after the Enron scandal, with plainly inadequate scrutiny, and this forced all software makers into having to make an expensive declaration each year about any software they'd released in what was referred to as a 'final' release. Didn't take several companies very long to realise that if you don't declare any software as 'complete' you don't have to fill in the expensive form. The consequence of this is that in order to comply with Federal law, they can't actually 'sell' you a licence to use the software in perpetuity at all, because it's not declared as complete, finished or final or anything like that; this means that you are just renting a development version, which is all they can legally do. Sneaky, eh?

     

    A lot of big companies actually like this, because then the software isn't a capital cost, but just a running expense.

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    emmrecsCorrect answer
    Legend
    Apr 26, 2017 5:46 PM UTC

    All versions of Audtion after CS6 are strictly subscription only.  Yes, it is a pain!

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    nathanansticeAuthor
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    Apr 26, 2017 8:35 PM UTC

    Very much a pain, I would happily pay in the hundreds for this software as a one off, I just hate paying monthly, I can save up money to fund a one-off payment, but harder to save for regular IMO... Ah well, thanks for confirming my suspicions

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