Studio One Pop up For Activiting
PreSonus have never been a company for low–key announcements, and true to form, Studio One 3 comes with the tag line “The Next Standard in Songwriting and Production”. With the huge range of software music-production tools available, it’s hard to know what the current standard is, but it’s good to know that we’re all going to be using Studio One “next”!
Amongst the key new features in version 3 are an Arranger track for song creation and rearrangement, a Scratchpad where you can try out new arrangement ideas, and a touch–friendly interface that takes advantage of multi–touch screens. PreSonus have revitalised the included plug–ins and instruments, and created new ways of combining them into super ‘multi–instruments’. They’ve also been listening to their user community, and have introduced the long–awaited automation curves and a bit of welcome MIDI processing. Do be aware, though, that the majority of the new features are available only in the Professional edition, which is what we’re reviewing here. Studio One Prime and Artist users have to make do with a refreshed interface and a couple of other bits and bobs unless they want to make use of the integrated shop to add more features or content. But have PreSonus ticked enough boxes to tempt users of other DAWs into their slick recording environment?
Mastering
The mastering features in Studio One have been a useful and unique element since the start, and even though I didn’t get on very well with the look and feel of the DAW side of version 1 or 2, I found the mastering side to be enormously usable, enabling me to add a level of ‘finishedness’ to projects that I hadn’t been able to attain on my own before. Other than following the same interface changes I can’t find any differences in version 3, and personally, I would appreciate it if they moved on from the overwhelming blueness in all the displays and metering!
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