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I think for songwriters there are two important things in a DAW:
1. It's fast to get ideas down
2. It's easy to edit.
For me, Studio One absolutely KILLS on (1). I still have some niggles with (2), mostly about looping and stuff like that but overall it's a very fluid DAW. As much as I love Logic and have a lot of time invested in it, there were always times when you had to spend an hour figuring out how to do something. For example, bus 8 drum tracks to the same bus, or apply the same effect to 24 channels, or make an instance of Kontakt play in mono. You always found the answer but MAN it could take a lot of headscratcing.
Whereas, in S1, most of that stuff is trivial (with certain important limitations0.
The second part, ease of editing, I am not sure that S1 is much better or worse but they do seem to be at least listening. I find midi editing less easy than logic, automation editing easier, audio editing less easy. But overall I can get to an equal-quality mix faster on S1 and really that's what counts.
There's also, to be honest, a fun factor and S1 really has that. For example, browsing effects is about 10,000% more intuitive in S1. Plus it runs VSTs.
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