WTF? Is this a Dead Program?

[Shreddi]

Looking at the posts here to decide if I should install OHM or not Nothing has been updated since 2013? Was it that perfect of just something thrown together make a few bucks and ditch it? All I see are complaints in Discussion. If OHM had any integrity they would refund all who hasn't used. Reading posts you force online so should be easy to track.

[tomatoes.dll]

IMO, Ohm was not intended to be a throw-away Shreddi. However, that said, it pretty much did not do enough to make the reality work. I own a studio and used it only for collaboration, but it wasn't quite right and wasn't easy to make a suitable collaborative experiment. My guess is that in the future other collaborative options will evolve, so we can maybe write OHM off as the one that came too soon for its own good. Can't be sure, but I don't think there was ill intent. It just isn't a good enough system to do what folks like us hoped it would accomplish.

[Laserbeak43]

if OHM studio is dying, then it's dying cause it didn't persevere. Solutions have been available since the 90s. and none of them have been able to take the good with the bad, it seems. I have no idea how hard it'd be, but everyone always says this kind of thing is before its time.
IMHO, the time will never come unless a developer can withstand the urge to pull the plug when they see their user-base fluctuate.

[VJFranzK]

if so, it's a shame. seems a good concept

[Daniel]

Hi. I know this thread is now a year old, but I want to comment anyway for people finding this in the future.

Yes, Ohm Studio as a software is pretty much dead. We haven't received any patches for a long time, which is pretty disappointing since Ohm has some very annoying bugs. It definitely could be improved.

While the program is dead, it still has a small but dedicated community. You pretty much can always go online and find someone to jam with.

While there's a 10 project limit for free users, you can always leave old projects and open new ones. The project won't go away and your tracks will stay.

I wish the guys at Ohm Force would improve it. I have 2620 hours in Ohm and love it to death, but it could really use some love.

[Laserbeak43]

Yeah I don't know why these types of projects never stick around. (tears)

[tomatoes.dll]

Hey folks. My two cents are that, given the amount of cheap, and even free, software, particularly Cakewalk by Bandlab, it seems to me Ohm Studio has no chance.

I bought Sonar's Platinum Edition years ago, and to me, it was the right DAW for me all day long every day. However, I worked with ProTools, Reaper, well, outside of logic, pretty much most of them over the years.

The price of the technology is going down rapidly, and the software I paid for, while superior by far to something like Ohm Studio, cost me a hell of a lot more than free.

Exchange of files gets easier on all levels, on all DAWs. Makes it much harder, btw, to run a business mixing & mastering, since everyone can get unbelievable free or cheap stuff and think they are, at the same time, audio experts.

Anyway, I rambled a bit there, but Ohm could only survive without far superior technology and innovation, both business and product development levels, since there are no reasons to consider it even remotely unique.

That's my stance on the matter. haha

[Shreddi]

Thanks all. I appreciate the answers. To pay for the software and each upgrade I did since Voyetra haha. remember that from the 80's including the sound card needed? I turn to a looping station or little multitrack. Thanks again.

[Hannibal]

Well may as well remove this off the wishlist as it certainly looks dead. Looked promising too bad.

[Laserbeak43]

Yeah. sad...

[¡!]

hey the software still works donit? i just evne purchased the bundle here on steam, BUUT I REALY WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU DEVS PARTICIPATING AND UPDATING IT THEN IT WONT DIE!

[SharpZ]

Originally posted by Lovely Rio (OmegaRed):

hey the software still works donit? i just evne purchased the bundle here on steam, BUUT I REALY WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU DEVS PARTICIPATING AND UPDATING IT THEN IT WONT DIE!

it wont even open for me. i tried validating integrity of the files and reinstalling it, but still wont load.

[wedmer]

It's finally dead
https://www.ohmstudio.com/content/end

A sad news today - Ohmstudio's is about to be shut down at the end of this year.

Ohmstudio started as a dream in 1999. It took us years to build up the experience to start making it, and many more years to create it. Ultimately, while it undoubtedly delivers to this day the most comprehensive collaborative experience to create music, it never met a demand strong enough to be commercially sustainable.

Which isn't not to say it didn't meet a fantastic community. This kind of wording usually rings like hollow PR to us but picture this - many users have hundreds of real, actual songs created on Ohmstudio, and quite a few are in the thousands - over eight years of use. There are 330K users and 640K projects. So when we say we feel humbled by the quality and quantity of music created on Ohmstudio it means something. As opposed to every other DAW we see constantly what you guys are doing and this is mindblowing. The Ohmstudio user community is truly second to none.

Unfortunately, what's not updated is also not maintained, which means that when standards change it stops working. In the last months, the IT Gods have sent several plagues on Ohmstudio, first removing its ability to run on OSX, and now putting an expiration date on several critical services delivered by Amazon AWS.

We studied our options in the last month and came to the conclusion that we are unable to continue maintenance support and operation of Ohmstudio for another year.
Below are some important dates and details regarding the closure.


Timeline

1. Application access will cease on 12-31-2020. That means you won't be able to access your project anymore in 2021.

2. Ohmstudio.com web site may remain available with playback and search capabilities only of projects. Under study.

3. Email functionality will cease at the end of September 2020. The following functions (and possibly others) will stop working at that time:


New Account Creation
Project Invites using email (you will still be able to invite someone to a project within the application ?)
Ohmstudio email communication between users
Password Resets


If you require a password reset for your account after September 30th, 2020, Please send an e-mail to support at ohmstudio dot com to request a password reset.

4. Refunds -

If you purchased a pro pack or pro pack XL within the last 12 months, you will receive a refund.
If you have a subscription plan for more than month to month (eg: 3 mo, 6mo, 1 year), you may request a refund
If you have subscriptions on automatic payment, you should cancel your automatic payment.


Note: To request a refund, send an email to [e-mail] and provide the following information your username or better, forward your bill.

That being said, Ohmforce has been operating Ohmstudio at a loss from day 1, so for those of you who do not wish to obtain a refund and instead consider it a donation, we humbly thank you in advance for your support.

Actions you should take now

You should begin now to organize backups of your projects and export your project tracks to your local machine as you deem appropriate.
You can export some or all of the tracks, save the midi tracks, take screen shots of your projects to capture information about tempo, time signature, mixer settings, etc.

Efforts are underway by the ohnmstudio user community to potentially provide some tools that will help the legacy of the music created on Ohmstudio to survive along with keeping the user community intact and able to communicate with each other. So stay tuned - there will be some upcoming news about this.

Regardless, start to backup/export your dearest projects.

There will also be one or several "final" collaborative events. As always check out the community managed Ohmstudio Events Group for extra info.

Also you can reach us at support at ohmstudio dot com for any questions.

Much Love,

The Ohm Team

[Fabio.OCP]

You all should try this one: https://www.bandlab.com/
Works on Chrome, Android and iOS.

[Fabio.OCP]

Same proposal, but it's a paid service: https://www.soundtrap.com/