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Presonus Studio One
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| Theran |
Studio One is a groundbreaking music creation and production application for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista that makes audio recording, MIDI sequencing, and audio mastering ridiculously simple right out of the box, yet provides a wealth of professional features.
Fresh code, innovative drag-and-drop MIDI mapping and plug-in management, auto-configuration with PreSonus hardware, insanely good audio quality, unlimited tracks and plug-ins per track, and a powerful, inventive Start page that literally puts the whole project right in your hands are just a few of the compelling features that make Studio One the next generation in audio software. Far from just another music-production program, Studio One changes the rules of the game, giving you a complete, easy-to-use solution from raw tracks to finished master, while supporting the latest standards and technologies.
HIGH-END AUDIO ENGINE
Studio One is based on a cutting-edge audio engine that delivers unparalleled sound and automatically switches between 32-bit and 64-bit floating-point processing on the fly (even with a 32-bit OS), ensuring the highest quality audio at all times.
COMPATIBLE AND EASY TO CONFIGURE
Studio One is compatible with any ASIO-, Windows Audio-, or CoreAudio-compliant audio interface, including, of course, the entire line of PreSonus interfaces. Studio One recognizes your PreSonus interface, and preprogrammed templates automatically create software inputs and assign them to the appropriate hardware inputs on your PreSonus interface. You don’t have to configure your software to work with your hardware—Studio One does it for you!”
Studio One stores I/O configurations with each song, for each computer, and for each device driver. As a result, you can take a song to a friend’s studio, use Studio One with their interface, and when you get back to your studio, Studio One will recall the original I/O configuration for the song, as if you never left. This works regardless of interface.
INNOVATIVE START PAGE
A powerful tool that will appeal to professionals and hobbyists alike, the Start page allows you to access recent songs and projects, create new ones, configure external devices, and access tutorial information, demo songs, and a special PreSonus news feed. You can download updates and support materials directly from the Start page, without ever leaving Studio One.
EASY TO NAVIGATE
Unlike most music-production programs, a single, straightforward workspace allows you to track, edit, and mix in one easy-to-navigate window that you can access with a single click. Or if you wish, you can separate the Console and Arrange views and can even drag them to separate displays. A compact Console view allows you to mix while viewing the arrangement so you don’t have to bounce back and forth between windows. You also can switch to a larger Console view—yet another way that Studio One helps you work quickly while giving you maximum flexibility.
The Arrange view employs a waveform display with user-selectable color-coding and sample-level zoom. The Arrange view shows you the big picture, while the Edit view shows you the up-close details; used together, they virtually eliminate the need to zoom in and out. The Console view contains faders, solos, mutes, pans, and other expected elements. It also includes extensive sidechaining capability.
Studio One’s Browser provides instant access to effects, loops, instruments, and other key elements. You can preview any audio clip, and if the clip has tempo information encoded, it will play synced to the song tempo.
POWERFUL DRAG-AND-DROP FEATURES
Here’s where it gets really interesting: Studio One’s powerful drag-and-drop function allows you to drag an audio clip, effect, or a virtual instrument from the Browser directly onto a track in the Arrange or Console view. Time stretching enables Studio One to automatically match tempo-encoded audio clips with Song tempo. You can copy an effect or a whole chain of effects—including settings—by simply dragging to a new track in the Console view. These are just a few of the many ways that Studio One’s Browser and drag-and-drop implementation allow you to work quickly, without scrolling through pages of menus. It’s a lot more fun too! No other music-production program even comes close.
AWESOME PLUG-INS
Of course, Studio One supports ReWire and the VST and AU plug-in formats, including the new VST 3 plug-in specification, so Studio One is ready to use the newest plug-ins as they are released. It also utilizes automatic delay compensation, which keeps tracks in sync regardless of plug-in processing. But the most glittering gems are PreSonus’s proprietary Native Effects Suite plug-ins, which include a wide variety of built-in effects, such as compressors, EQs, distortion, delay effects, amp modeling, modulation effects, and reverbs. These are brand-new plug-ins that process audio with 64-bit floating-point double precision. This is truly state-of-the-art technology. Three new PreSonus virtual instruments are also bundled with Studio One, including SampleOne, a virtual sampler that offers the fastest sample mapping available.
EASY, INTUITIVE MIDI MAPPING
When it comes to MIDI mapping, Studio One changes the rules yet again. Of course, you can record MIDI parts and then tweak them in a piano-roll editor. But the real fun starts with Control Link, the most intuitive MIDI-mapping system available. Simply move the hardware and software controls to be linked and click the Link button for instant mapping. In Global mode, hardware and software controls maintain a one-to-one relationship, so a hardware control is linked directly to one software control for the entire program. In Focus mode, control maps only apply to a particular plug-in, so you can make different control maps for each plug-in, and the Focus map is stored with the plug-in, giving you no-sweat, context-sensitive MIDI mapping. This works with all parameters of any VST or AU plug-in. At last, a music-production application that makes controller mapping as easy and flexible as it always should have been!
INTEGRATED MASTERING SUITE
The Project page is a complete mastering solution that is fully integrated with the rest of the program. The Project page includes all the necessary tools to create a production-quality master, including effects, crossfades, volume envelopes, and meters. You can make disc images, burn Red Book CDs, and create digital-release albums, complete with metadata. In addition, Studio One creates an intelligent link when songs are placed in a Project for mastering, automatically updating any changes to the original tracks or subsequent mixes. From basic tracking to multiple-release mastering, Studio One is the complete solution.
Release: July / August 2009
Price: 499USD
URL: http://www.presonus.com/
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This looks very interesting to me, I have already seen a lot of videos on youtube about it and it seems very intuïtive and would def speed up the workflow.
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| Eldritch |
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HIGH-END AUDIO ENGINE
Studio One is based on a cutting-edge audio engine that delivers unparalleled sound and automatically switches between 32-bit and 64-bit floating-point processing on the fly (even with a 32-bit OS), ensuring the highest quality audio at all times.
AWESOME PLUG-INS
...These are brand-new plug-ins that process audio with 64-bit floating-point double precision. This is truly state-of-the-art technology. |
Eh, no thanks. Talk about redundant.
I hate how marketting is more important than reality.
And the reality is that 32-bit floating point is more than enough.
Why would I want to waste precious CPU cycles on something that doesn't matter? |
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| Acton |
Cheers for the info, this is actually the first I've heard of this.
I have no intention of changing DAW's, but I have no doubt I will try a demo...........just because occasionally I'm a massive geek. |
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| Subtle |
| quote: | Originally posted by Theran
INTEGRATED MASTERING SUITE
The Project page is a complete mastering solution that is fully integrated with the rest of the program. The Project page includes all the necessary tools to create a production-quality master, including effects, crossfades, volume envelopes, and meters. You can make disc images, burn Red Book CDs, and create digital-release albums, complete with metadata. In addition, Studio One creates an intelligent link when songs are placed in a Project for mastering, automatically updating any changes to the original tracks or subsequent mixes. From basic tracking to multiple-release mastering, Studio One is the complete solution.
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I dunno why, but i am a bit skeptical of this.
Program looks slick though, will definitely give it a "spin" |
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| orTofønChiLd |
| Wow, that looks cool. |
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| thecYrus |
| quote: | Originally posted by Eldritch
Eh, no thanks. Talk about redundant.
I hate how marketting is more important than reality.
And the reality is that 32-bit floating point is more than enough.
Why would I want to waste precious CPU cycles on something that doesn't matter? |
actually not. we are talking about effect plugins here. not summing engine. and the reality is that almost all effect plugins oversample internal audio (which means 2x oversampling = 64 bits)
but for the 64 bit summing engine i agree with you. |
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| psymon.d |
| quote: | Originally posted by Acton
I have no intention of changing DAW's, but I have no doubt I will try a demo...........just because occasionally I'm a massive geek. |
Same |
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| kitphillips |
| So what does it offer over ableton, logic or cubase? Or even sonar? Pointless waste of time until someone shows me what it does that no other DAW does... |
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| Lucidity |
| quote: | Originally posted by kitphillips
So what does it offer over ableton, logic or cubase? Or even sonar? Pointless waste of time until someone shows me what it does that no other DAW does... |
To me the point is workflow and self contained tools. I can make music in any daw, I tried most except Logic, and for me the biggest drawback in all of them except Live, is workflow and/or self contained plugins.
Im gonna try it, and if it speeds up my flow and creativity, I will buy it. Why shut it out of the picture just cause u can do it in another daw? If it helps to make my music better or even just to make it faster, why not try it out? |
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| Stef |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lucidity
To me the point is workflow and self contained tools. I can make music in any daw, I tried most except Logic, and for me the biggest drawback in all of them except Live, is workflow and/or self contained plugins.
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Exactly what i thought, my tracks come out the same despite the DAW i use and at this point i have tried every single one bar logic. The reason i can't stick with just one DAW is because each one does something better than the other and my workflow for each part is quite fast but in total it slows down when it comes to integrating every part. |
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| No Left Turn |
| quote: | | Originally posted by Acton I have no intention of changing DAW's, but I have no doubt I will try a demo...........just because occasionally I'm a massive geek. |
I feel the same way. This really doesn't look like it's offering anything new or different so it will be interesting to see what it brings to the table when it's released. But nonetheless, I will most likely be giving this a whirl if there is a demo version.
Personally, I'm at the point where it would be more trouble for me to ditch Cubase since the way I work completely depends on every unique little thing that it offers. |
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