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Presonus – Studio One

Posted on 23. Aug, 2009 by Luke Bond in Interesting Reads

After hearing about this upcoming DAW and seeing some of the screenshots from it, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it! The demo has just been released and the first thing I did was download and fire it up!

Straight away you can see by the colours and layout from the plugin loading screen that Presonus have gone into care of this applications design. I was impressed by how it picked up every single VST I had installed with Cubase flawlessly.

Once the application has loaded, you’re presented with the “What do you want to do” screen, offering various different options weather it be CD mastering or a full track arrangement. You also have a Youtube link to view all the tutorials on how to use the software, pretty neat! I decided to go straight into the arrangement as that’s what I love!

Arrangement View

At glance, the arrangement view can be quite dawnting as all the modules are squeezed into one screen like how Logic is now however you can easily detatch them which is ideal for dual screen setups. The first thing I noticed is that if you’re using loops of any kind, Studio One will automatically timestrech them into your projects set BPM, even while previewing, awesome!

Creating Audio and Instruments are very straight forward, you can simply add an arrangement track and drag the desired VST onto the track.

Another thing that’s very straight forward is automation, it does exactly what it says on the tin. You have the usual touch, latch, read, write ect and draw it as it goes.

Plug-Ins

One of the main things people go for when purchasing a DAW is what do you get for your money in terms of plugins. Well Studio One has a huge range of included plugins with lots of features, here is a list of what you get!

Lot’s of cool ones in there as well as the usual suspects, not only that but they are beautifully designed too!

Autofilter

EQ

Compressor (Notice the sidechain option also)

Overall this new sequencer has everything you could want. It combines the layout of Logic & Cubase, the plug-ins of Ableton & Fruity Loops and an overall quick, flowy useability which any beginner and experienced producer alike would seriously benefit from. This is one of the most impressive sequencers I’ve seen in a long time.

The Demo is freely available at http://www.presonus.com/

Retailing at $399.99

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