I’ve already mentioned the various editors, but there are also a plethora of modal mouse tools: selection pointer, drawing pencil, cutting knife, etc. Presonus also freely provides Studio One Remote for Android/iOS for, yes, remote control and operation. This allows me to layer sounds from different sound sources without having to mess around with a sampler. I do have one other favorite Studio One feature-the ability to stack VST instruments on the same track. Since day one (or version one, if you prefer), Studio One Professional has incorporated the Project page for organizing and mastering your mixdowns into cohesive sounding albums. You can assign various functions to the controllers. The performance view for the the Show page is as streamlined as the main interface is cluttered.

There’s a section to create these “Shows” (seen above) and a streamlined interface for actual performance use as shown below. With Show, you define “songs” that encompass “players” that can be anything from mixdowns of songs, to external hardware, to stacked FX used by live performers. Unlike with other DAWs with live capabilities more aimed at performers or DJs, this one seeks to accommodate sound engineers and performers using backing tracks, etc. This is Studio One’s organizational “Show” page. The latter is new for version 5 and is roughly akin to the mixing/automated performance software used to run modern stage productions. Dual monitors are also supported if you want to dedicate one display to mixing/editing and another to the track area.Īs mentioned, where Studio One really sets itself apart from other DAWs is with its Project and Show pages.

The changes in one editor are mirrored in the other in real time. You can float the editors as windows, and view the notation as such while the drum or piano roll are docked in the bottom pane. Notion was already pipelined to Studio One for easy exchange of data. At the bottom is the mixing console which swaps out with the various editors: piano roll, drum, Melodyne 5 visual audio editing (a license is included) via ARA2, and new for version 5-musical notation courtesy of the company’s Notion 6 score editing software. The layout of the main window consists of an inspector panel and controls for the current track to the far left, track headers to the right of those, the timeline area for clips (which may be layered), then the browser to the far right. Version 4 already had a pipeline for exchanging info with the standalone version of Notion. Studio One 5 integrates some of the scoring abilities of its Notion musical notation program. I mention this as Studio One bears more than a passing resemblance to those in both appearance and approach.

The original developers were also responsible for Nuendo, a surround version of the venerable and popular Cubase from Steinberg.

Studio one vs pro tools