![]() ![]() In the ’standard’ DAW world, then, for ease of composing, little comes close to Studio One. ![]() In terms of the user experience with Studio One and the speed at which you can get great results, you’ll only get this kind of result in the slightly different worlds of Live, Reason and FL Studio which are perhaps more loop-based or electronic. It’s the ultimate dilemma for producers these days and there are so many choices out there. But should you cross grade? Well, that is the question: to switch DAW or not. Do I really need this?Įxisting Studio One owners should upgrade for the main features alone, let alone all the extras. It’s not always perfect, mind, especially if you veer off onto quite experimental chord progressions. The audio of the guitar strum then changed pretty instantly to follow that of the MIDI progression – very nice indeed. For example, I created a MIDI chord progression – and one that I certainly wouldn’t have created not using Chord Selector, I hasten to add – and then loaded in a fairly random guitar strum sample of just one chord being strummed.Īfter time-stretching the sample so that the strumming was in time I then applied the MIDI chord progression to the audio by selecting Chord Follow on the audio track in the main Inspector. However, the best part of Chord Track comes when using audio. Click on each chord and Chord Selector lets you try out different options for any MIDI chords you have recorded. You can then select chord lengths here by bars or beats and then select the chord that these link to by double clicking to open a neat looking Chord Selector tool. You enter the Chord Track mode by hitting an all-new icon. Chord Track lets you try out options in an instant, but that’s only half the story. I’m one of these composers who can quite easily come up with one chord progression but I don’t (whisper) know enough about songwriting to go to many interesting places after that. Before you hold your hands up and say, ’that’s not for me, I know nothing about chords or music’, stop! It’s actually for everyone. The main enhancements are to a couple of plug-ins – with the Impact XT drum module and Sample One XT sampler – the addition of Pattern and Drum editing and, possibly my favourite, the addition of a new Chord Track which I’ll detail first.Ĭhord Track is a great feature as it allows for easy harmonic editing and chord progressions. What we are seeing are easier ways to program beats and melodies and some of them really are very good indeed. Thankfully this 4 update is – the old cliché – all about evolution rather than revolution, so we’re not seeing a huge change in looks (thank god) and nor are we seeing an incredible shift in workflow (ditto). ![]() The problem with a rounded and finished piece of software, though, is where do you go with updates? Simple, you just make everything easier to use so that your users can, in Presonus’s words, ’work better, faster’. And the fact that it was started by a couple of ex-Steinbergers probably reveals why it became the real deal of sequencing so quickly. It turns out that, for once, this isn’t just me imagining things, because a quick glance at Wiki (I do it so you don’t have to) reveals that Studio One really has only been around less for less than a decade. One of these, Presonus’ flagship Studio One DAW, seems to have snuck up on us all from nowhere though.Īnd even more oddly, it has always felt ’complete’, like a DAW with a long heritage – so much so that it has already become something of a challenge to the mighty Pro Tools in professional circles, certainly over the Atlantic, anyway. Unlike most digital TV channels, though, most DAWs seem to have very good features and are capable of just about any studio task you throw at them. I don’t want to get all ’in my day it was just Logic and Cubase and we made do’ but, rather like TV channels, the number of DAWs we have has exploded in recent years. System reqs: Win 7+, Intel Core Duo or AMD AthlonX2, 4GB RAM (8 GB rec) Mac: OS10.11+, Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo processor, 4GB RAM.37 effects, 5 instruments, 4 Note FX, plus AU, VST2, VST3, and ReWire support.NEW! Impact XT and SampleOne XT, Chord Track, and Patterns for drum and melody composition Includes Melodyne Essential 4 editor, integrated mastering suite and online cloud services.AAF support for easy file exchange with other DAWs.64-bit resolution and support for up to 384kHz audio.Price £344.40 | £128.40 Upgrade Contact PreSonus | Source Distribution Studio One 4 key features: ![]()
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