Let’s say you have your stereo masters laid out and ready for final sweetening, and you hear a mistake or want to tweak the EQ on a particular track or instrument in one song so it will sit better in the mix. The Project Page’s brilliance lies in its complete integration with the rest of Studio One. From there, you can arrange them (called sequencing), add as much or as little silence between each song as you want, and then add mastering-grade processing to sweeten the lot. In the Project Page, you can drag your rendered stereo tracks from each of your songs. The Project Page The Professional version of Studio One 3 comes with a very capable integrated mastering solution called the Project Page. This is also nice because you don’t have to set up new tracks to try your different ideas, and each track is already associated to your favourite effects. It’s almost like loop-based recording and arranging, but in a timeline. You can save many different Scratchpads in your project, too. You can also try out different solos or instrumentation within the Scratchpad and then drag them into your timeline. ![]() The Scratchpad and Arranger are a powerful combination that let you develop different arrangements and save them within your songs. There are tons of electronic and acoustic loops, and all are very high quality.Ī songwriter’s toolkit This most recent release of Studio One adds some incredibly powerful features designed to help the songwriter/composer get the most out of Studio One and enhance creativity. They’re not the prettiest instruments, but they are very capable. The virtual instruments included are Mojito (a mono synth), Presence (a soundfont sampler), Impact (a pretty versatile drum machine) and Sample One (a drag-n-drop sample player). The amount of content you get with Studio One is dependent on which version you buy: Artist (very small loops and presets library), Producer (much larger library and added VST support for third-party instruments) or Professional (a ton of loops and samples and all the VIs on offer). Studio One also comes bundled with a few virtual instruments and some loops and samples. Melodyne Essentials (trial version on Artist, full version on Professional) is integrated completely into Studio One, and works brilliantly for pitch adjusting, format control and even developing harmonies… and it’s not an add-on insert or plugin, it’s a menu item and works really well. This also allows for very tight integration with certain third-party developers’ plugins, such as Melodyne, for example. It is actually a higher-resolution format, allowing for much more accurate manipulation of instrument data. It should be said that, when Studio One came to the market, it was not the prettiest DAW out there.Īnother point of note: PreSonus doesn’t call its instrument note manipulation format MIDI… even though it may occasionally refer to it as MIDI in the manual. The interface was easy to use and very intuitive. What’s So Special About It? So what is it that makes Studio One so popular to its ever-expanding community? It began with a simple one-window user interface. Let’s take a look at what’s on offer, how it compares to some of the other DAWs out there, what it’s missing, and why you should seriously consider augmenting your current setup with Studio One 3. With the release of v3, we get multiple new added features that change the game for PreSonus and may lead to many people jumping from their old DAWs to this shiny beast. ![]() Well, Studio One is no longer the ‘new kid on the block’, and is now at version 3. ![]() ![]() This new DAW met the market with mixed reviews for certain, but thousands of people – in search of something new and intuitive – jumped at this new workstation and sunk their teeth in… and refused to let go. But in 2008, hardware maker PreSonus (already famous for its compressors, preamps and interfaces) entered the DAW market with a very elegant effort in the form of Studio One.
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