PreSonus Studio One

[synthfiend]

PreSonus Studio One

Studio One is a groundbreaking music creation and production application for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista that makes audio recording, MIDI sequencing, and audio mastering ridiculously simple right out of the box, yet provides a wealth of professional features.

Fresh code, innovative drag-and-drop MIDI mapping and plug-in management, auto-configuration with PreSonus hardware, insanely good audio quality, unlimited tracks and plug-ins per track, and a powerful, inventive Start page that literally puts the whole project right in your hands are just a few of the compelling features that make Studio One the next generation in audio software. Far from just another music-production program, Studio One changes the rules of the game, giving you a complete, easy-to-use solution from raw tracks to finished master, while supporting the latest standards and technologies.

•*Elegant single-window work environment
• Powerful drag-and-drop functionality
• Unlimited audio tracks, MIDI tracks, virtual instruments, buses, and FX channels
• Content browser with convenient sort options and preview player
• Integrated mastering solution with automatic mix updating, waveform editing, effects, Red Book CD burning, and digital release
• Automatic delay compensation
• Advanced automation
• 64-bit processing (even on 32-bit machines)
• Easy-to-use sidechain routing
• Awe-inspiring 64-bit effects suite
• Stunning virtual instruments
• User-friendly sampler
• Most intuitive MIDI-mapping system available
• Real-time audio timestretching and resampling
• AU, VST2, VST3, and ReWire support
• K System metering
• Gigabytes of inspiring content
• Compatible with any ASIO-, Windows Audio-,or Core Audio-compliant audio interface

[Solar]

Woooooooooooooooow, as if there is not enough DAW out there yet!!!

Looks a lot logic style big time.... hahhahahaa

Mmhmhmhmhmhmhmhm

[d1rtynyc]

This is a seriously ambitious undertaking by Presonus.
I am impressed with what I see offered for a 1st time product.

[Goliath|Audio]

Originally Posted by Solar

Looks a lot logic style big time.... hahhahahaa

Mmhmhmhmhmhmhmhm

Really? 'Cause it looks like Reaper and Vegas rolled into a decent interface to me.

Does Apple have a patent on the shade of grey that makes it feel like you are trapped working on a submarine?

I hope this doesn't suck! I am willing to try it out if it doesn't. Nice to see Presonus stepping out and doing something.

[Brad McGowan]

K-System metering....nice touch Presonus!

I've been telling DAW manufacturers that they need to implement that every time I go to the trade shows.

Brad

[HobbyCore]

I think this looks pretty awesome.

I'm not going to use it, but I'm still quite impressed and applaud Presonus for their effort.

[Jazz Thieves]

They've certainly banged a lot in there for sure. I didn't see any mention of external fx which is unfortunate. I think the drag n drop looks interesting and it would be good to have a listen to the greatly hyped audio engine.

I wouldn't have thought it possible for a new daw to come out that could seriosly compete in the market but presonus may just prove me wrong. Especially if they add good customer comunication and rapid bug fixes into the equation( cough you know who you are). Given a couple of updates this could be a heavy hitter!

[DivineMusic]

wow, im impressed...

[Lindell]

Impressive work Presonus! wow!

[recall]

I like the mastering section. I wish Pro Tools would allow red book cd burning.

[kreeper_6]

Is there a price and Release date anywhere?

Effect Chain presets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


EDIT

From the Presonus Forums...

- Price will be $499 retail, $399 estimated street price in the US.

- Shooting for a ship date this summer.

- a light version of Studio One will ship free with all PreSonus interfaces.

- There will be a very special upgrade/crossgrade program for all existing PreSonus customers.

[Saudade]

ok if this is not a April fools joke...

Yeah as if there is not enough DAW software out there

I think the only reason why manufacturers are doing this is because there's always a need for software-hardware "plug and play" (wow that's a retro term) integration and they know if they can provide an idiot proof hardware+software solution they will sell more hardware than they ever can.

Cubase + Yamaha N series (and some other hardware) : Integration
Sonar + VStudio : Integration
Studio One + Presonus hardware: Integration

My guess is Presonus will soon be building an audio interface - control surface - digital mixer hybrid (evolved from StudioLive). For better integration with Studio One of course.

Hmmm...what about Logic and DP? And Reaper? I thought some hardware company would be smart enough to buy Reaper by now

Now the trend is towards dedicated knobs, buttons and faders for stuff like control room functions, stuff that won't require users to configure the software to adapt to the feature list of a particular piece of hardware - something which requires a certain level of understanding of signal flow and routing - something which the new generation won't want to learn.

Anyhow I don't think this is good for consumers cos more platforms means more conversion and compatibility problems. We should just all go back to analog tape

[DivineMusic]

not april fools its a real daw
looks very impressive too

next thing you know presonus is gonna be making monitors

[WindowSills]

Developed for PreSonus by these guys:

Founded in 2006 by Wolfgang Kundrus and Matthias Juwan, KristalLabs is a start-up company with extensive experience in the music software industry.

Wolfgang Kundrus was the main software architect of "Cubase" and "Nuendo" while working at Steinberg. He is the founder of the "MusicDock" online platform.

Matthias Juwan was working on various commercial software products, among others "Cubase", "HALion", "Plex" and the VST plug-in technology, while at Steinberg. He is the lead developer of the well-known freeware sequencer "KRISTAL Audio Engine".

KristalLabs is working on next-generation software solutions for music production on PC and Macintosh.

KristalLabs is based in Hamburg, Germany.

[thedommer]

wowsers. looks pretty nice. Very curious to see how good it actually is.... Doubt I wnat to make another daw switch though. Ill probably wait out the 4 years until logic 9.

[DivineMusic]

as a nuendo user i wondered why i really liked the layout of the software. cant wait to try it

[AnonJack]

great, another daw.

[Solar]

I'm back and damn... this look HOT indeed!! Say that i just upgrade to C5.

Really love the look, man the GUI is really appealing and can not wait to give it a try. And for that price, i think it will be in my purchase of course after i try the demo and see how this DAW response to it's functions from Midi editing to Audio capabilities and most of all stability as well.

Simply "wow"....

[G-Spot]

Uau!

The more DAWs there are out there, the more we will profit because they will take features form each other. Look at the amount of features that ProTools and Logic "interchanged".

I find amazing that Presonus Studio One has:

-Automatic delay compensation (hello?...are you there Digidesign??? PT LE?)

-Red Book CD burning

-64-bit processing (even on 32-bit machines)

-K System metering !!!!

Companies are realising that the way to go is the integrated solution software + hardware. Actually the reason why digidesign got so big.

Logic (with Apogee) and Steinberg did it, now Presonus... great!

Now, is it possible to have external hardware inserts in each track? Will the automatic delay compensation also compensate hardware inserts?

Is there a Presonus hardware that has simultaneious 24 I/Os? PCIe?

[gollumsluvslave]

WOWSER!

Colour me seriously impressed, but with the ex-Steinberg guys at KristalLabs doing the work they've definitely got the experience.

1. Drag & Drop video is serioulsy impressive - the browser seems very well implemented, and the Effects Chains is great. A lot of it reminds me of Reaper, but with even better flow.

2. K-System metering!

3. UI looks very intuitive

4. Loops & Browser seem to work well

5. Drag an VSTi from the browser, and be playing the MIDI in a second - very nice.

What I would want to see?

MIDI editing capabilities:-

Drum Editor / Maps (one of my main bugbears with Reaper)?
Mixer / Automation / Flexibilty?
Hardware Control / Generic Remote (integration with Presonus hardware sounds like that maye well be covered)?
Configurable Layouts both for screens and mixers? Having something like FX chains leads me to believe that Studio One will be all about making things configurable.

I know Presonus get a bit of a bad rap here (I have Central Station and it's great), but I'm very impressed with this - ambitious, and totally out of leftfield.

[sonicdefault]

This is great if for no other reason than to wake up the lame sleeping giant

I will say that I'm not afraid of innovation and if some company wants to finally step up and prove it wants to be the future leader in DAW technology... I say more power to them! The real challenge for a company such a PreSonus, however will be their ability to weather the tests which come with the inevitable advancements in OS and processor tech. This is where Apple has the huge advantage. Of course the Logic team seems to have vanished, so perhaps it doesn't matter.

Oh, and PreSonus guys... Impressive statement with the 64-bit, by the way. I like your style;)

-SD

[Barbary Ape]

^^ yeah, I hope it's as CPU efficient as Logic on a Mac because this DAW has some very serious advancements hopefully Apple won't be giving them a hard time in optimizing the program for the OS.

Their Control Link feature can be quite useful and I know not of any DAW that has it built in this easily

"When it comes to MIDI mapping, Studio One changes the rules yet again. Of course, you can record MIDI parts and then tweak them in a piano-roll editor. But the real fun starts with Control Link, the most intuitive MIDI-mapping system available. Simply move the hardware and software controls to be linked and click the Link button for instant mapping. In Global mode, hardware and software controls maintain a one-to-one relationship, so a hardware control is linked directly to one software control for the entire program. In Focus mode, control maps only apply to a particular plug-in, so you can make different control maps for each plug-in, and the Focus map is stored with the plug-in, giving you no-sweat, context-sensitive MIDI mapping. This works with all parameters of any VST or AU plug-in. At last, a music-production application that makes controller mapping as easy and flexible as it always should have been!"

I also hope it also accepts multiple interfaces at once.

Very impressed with what has Presonus has done.

[gollumsluvslave]

Their Control Link feature can be quite useful and I know not of any DAW that has it built in this easily

"When it comes to MIDI mapping, Studio One changes the rules yet again. Of course, you can record MIDI parts and then tweak them in a piano-roll editor. But the real fun starts with Control Link, the most intuitive MIDI-mapping system available. Simply move the hardware and software controls to be linked and click the Link button for instant mapping. In Global mode, hardware and software controls maintain a one-to-one relationship, so a hardware control is linked directly to one software control for the entire program. In Focus mode, control maps only apply to a particular plug-in, so you can make different control maps for each plug-in, and the Focus map is stored with the plug-in, giving you no-sweat, context-sensitive MIDI mapping. This works with all parameters of any VST or AU plug-in. At last, a music-production application that makes controller mapping as easy and flexible as it always should have been!"

Yes, I'm very interested in this - Cubase's Generic Remote was a bit of a pig's breakfast, it would be nice to see someone do this really well.

Of course, my Automap 3 setup is working fantastically now, so that raises some other questions.

[futur2]

Originally Posted by Jazz Thieves

They've certainly banged a lot in there for sure. I didn't see any mention of external fx which is unfortunate.

looks and reads nice except no external fx?

if they manage to integrate that properly this could be an alternative daw in the next years!

[lowkey]

i think its good that there is another cross platform DAW

[jayman]

Are they saying "when" anywhere?

[Acko]

Looks excellent, really. This could be a serious contender.

[Smurf43]

Originally Posted by WindowSills

Developed for PreSonus by these guys:

Could you please show me where you found this? I can not locate this info on the PreSonus site!


*EDIT*
Sorry about that, I just went to the Kristal Labs site, and see that they have been going out on us long time Kristal users!

I guess Kristal IS now abandoned ware, 'eh?

[Intergroove]

This right here will change the daw game up.

[Intergroove]

Studio One supports ReWire and the VST and AU plug-in formats, including the new VST 3 plug-in.

64-bit floating-point double precision.

MIDI mapping and plug-in management.




WOW!!!!