Check it. They've got a limited time cross-grade offer to switch to Studio One: blog.presonus.com/index.php/2019/06/20/crossgrade-studio-one-professional-199-95-usd/
Hi Joe. Earlier this week i switched over to studio one 4 professional from the demo version. The problem I'm having is that the DAW still says DEMO instead of professional. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the DAW and in my presonus account it says that the software has been activated. I'm using Windows 10 on my PC. Do you know anyone else that has had this problem? Thanks.
So I've been in FL studio for about 5 years and I just switched over to studio one last week and I gotta say I'm completely blown away. I saw all the reviews and comments about it on so many platforms about how good it is and I was pretty doubtful at first, but this DAW is awesome! I don't think I'm looking back. I make house and future bass music which I haven't seen much content or reviews about on the internet but all the features of studio one makes me believe there's nothing stopping me from doing anything ahah. The thing I love most about studio one is how easy I can mix and master tracks, and the chord track feature really helps me be a bit more creative. FL studio is a great daw, beautiful for people like me who are visual learners, but if you're looking to step up your game I suggest giving studio one a shot :)
Me too, see how os too easy rendering to save CPU and you can Go back from where you started even with mixing plugins, see for some One who produce with Mouse os more easier to build an ideia, than do studio you Will have to play Many Times changing the time and note, in studio One i use One note and i Depp every think there i just focus in the tempo, after that i use One my keyboars rows to find the right note ONLY at One playing with than to see where AM, studio One found all vst pluggins no need jbrige as other Daws the most important think that defnitly switched me to studio One, the ONLY thing really miss from FL studio is detect scale
I was a long time PT user too. I made the switch to Studio One about 4 years ago. I love it too! Great explanation of why you like it. Great channel too!
i've been using studio one for a little over 2 years now and i decided to watch this video for the heck of it. 2 mins in and i already learned a new tip. thanks!
I recently switched over. I used FL Studio for most of the time but I wanted to get away from it, because it felt too limited for my purposes. I then used Bitwig Studio for a while seeing it was a great hybrid between FL studio interface and Ableton's, so I got to learn how to manage my mixes better without having such a steep learning curve. ( Although it was steep, coming from FL. ) But since I got Studio One, I deinstalled all my previous DAWs. It felt familiar. It was easy to find things, it has the best mixing so far, recording MIDI and automation is great. Ofcourse there may be others who do similar things or whatever, but I just LOVE the tiniest detail, like customising your metronome with different sounds, if there needs to be a double beat, and if you want to hear a louder accent, or change that sound as well. Or if you prefer to have the Metronome baked in on the master or not, etc. I mean a metronome is a metronome, but these are so user friendly. And every bit of extra help is extra time to invest in making music.
Just switched over from logic and it ain’t easy. I should mentioned I’ve retired my Mac for an PC. I created my template now so it’s very similar and arguably quicker. I am enjoying it and LOVE the shortcuts. The number pad is so useful for recording yourself!
I got hooked on Studio One as they were the first to enable ARA with Melodyne. Once I got into it, it just fit like a glove. I have used Cubase, Sonar, Ableton, Reaper, and Logic Pro X. All of them are good DAWs and I really liked Reaper. However, once I started using Studio One, it just worked like I thought it should work. Also, they keep making it better and better. I was already happy but each upgrade adds new features that I have found to be useful in my workflow. My three main programs are Melodyne, iztope and Studio One. And, they all seem to be working well together.
Is it hard being such a likable guy? Amazing content, instantly subscribed. Thank you for the advice. Also, what you said at the end about sticking to one DAW and not stressing too much about which DAW you choose was just what I needed to hear; as someone with a relatively low income, I place a lot of importance and some stress in my decision on which DAW to buy, so hearing that from someone who clearly knows their stuff, especially after you backed Studio One so defiantly, was comforting. Thanks, I'm pretty sure my mind is finally made up.
Logic calls that flex-editing and it's automatic :| You can choose what you want to quantize to (quarter, eighth, sixteenth notes...) and also you can choose what percentage of transients to quantize in a selected region. You can of course go in an automatically adjust the points yourself, but it chops the sections up for you automatically based on the transients.
Reaper has proved to be the best of the affordable options for my studio, by a large margin. When I count all the small, useful features, lack of kludge, knowledge base, all of it - it wins out and keeps getting better.
All those small features are kind of in Logic too, the slip editing would be nice though. Logic’s thing with it is it’ll create the cross fades automatically and they’re SUPERB. I’m following along with Mix Together season 3 right now but using logic and it’s been an absolute godsend since I had to find a workaround without the slip editing function. I tried studio one for a while but I could never get behind it, I do really respect it as a DAW though
I just want to learn as many DAWS as I can just in case I'm in someone's studio and they have to step out for a second. I can keep working until they come back. But you're absolutely right about they all do the same thing. I been preaching that for a while
Just learning studio one 5. Coolest thing I discovered so far when editing automation. I dont have to drag the dot around hoping to land on the target value. I can right click on it and type the value in! Much less stressfull!
I don't really know how to use any DAWS at the moment, I'm a beginner who bought a faderport control device, and was planning on using it with Pro tools first, but i didn't realize that Studio one software came free with it. Now I've seen it i don't really see the point of even attempting to learn pro tools, i might delete it. This Studio One is a nice looking program.
I've been using Reaper for several years and don't have any plans to change. But I must say that S1 is great. After working in Reaper, I found S1 to be really intuitive and easy to figure out.
Joe, thank you sir! I just happened to stumble upon your video regarding the switch to Studio One. I'm a Logic user (Logic 9), but I wanted to try my hand at something simpler to begin writing songs. I'm excited because my Nord 5 will be coming in any day now and I'd like to start working with Studio One and work on mastering. I think this my be the answer to "mastering" which I have no experience with, but hopefully this will open up my understanding about it. I've been in mastering sessions before but many years ago, when I had an engineer I'd schedule work with. Anyway, thanks for your video, very, very cool info. I'm your newest subscriber! - Cheers!
This was very helpful. I've been "out of the game" since 2006. I had a Presonus Firestudio with Cubase [SE?] and recently, have been trying to decide on a DAW to get back into things. I've heard good things about studio one, but your reference to Cubase (something I'm "familiar" with) and the improvements presonus has made by controlling their product sold me. Thanks for the video!
I got into Studio One shortly after Gibson bought Cakewalk and they stopped with Sonar. I went looking DAW after DAW and S1 was the one I fell in love with and fast. Also the way it communicates with Console 1 and Icon Qcon ProX was a massive plus. I’m really happy with it... so far.
Studio One was my first DAW. I actually made a song with the loops from Studio One. Years pass by, I start looking at other DAW's that had chord features and had a lot of videos out there on how to use it. Now that Presonus has added similar features, I keep going back to Studio One. You are right. I should spend my time learning that one DAW Studio One, I started two weeks ago just learning my main DAW. I believe there will be an update to the chorder better than Cubase because I'm not a piano player, and update the arpeggiator tool.
I too left Pro Tools for Studio One. I needed to bounce a mix for a client and PT would freeze while opening on my Windows laptop and iMac. After multiple restarts, that was the final straw. I had S1 Artist and I upgraded to Professional before the trial was up. It’s just an intuitive piece of software that has improved my workflow the last 2 years.
After Sonar went down, I switched over to Mixcraft. I've since purchased a PreSonus audio interface that came with a copy of Studio One. For the most part, I actually did like the layout of the software, but I'll probably stick with Mixcraft for now, if for no other reason, I have to purchase an upgrade to use 3rd party VST's.
Cheers man, really insightful. I’m honestly being blown away by what Studio One can do. So sick of Logic and PT’s clunkiness and lack of undo/redo for each action or logical shortcuts. The live (show) side is also so quick and easy to setup sets and patches.
I started with Cakewalk (SONAR) back with version 1. I have grown with it. When I started to teach Sound Engineering at a local college 13 years ago I had to add Pro Tools to the learning curve. Never fell in love with it. I tell my students, “Use what you know.”
Meh. For me, what you know is irrelevant, because you can always learn something new. For me, it’s (a) what’s most comfortable for you, (b) what works best for you (workflow wise), and (c) what has the tools, features, and utility you need to do the specific tasks you need to do. For instance, Ableton Live was perfect for me when it comes to categories (a) and (b) - it has the most pleasant user experience/aesthetics I’ve seen, as well as a super fast workflow (that I don’t think any daw can compete with). BUT, it completely lacked sophisticated songwriting utility (because it’s made for live use and simple EDM music-building). Studio One, on the other hand, is only slightly less pleasant to use and has a slightly slower workflow, BUT it has tons of very nice features and songwriting utility to help someone compose more sophisticated music. I tend to create various forms of soundtrack music, rather than anything electronic, so it would make sense that I went with the daw that has more utility for that. So no. Comfort, workflow, and utility. Those are the big three categories that matter when choosing a daw, as they are essential to what you do with it. Your knowledge of different recording programs is always tentative and contingent - liable to change as you learn and explore more things. Best to look at how the program feels and works for the specific area of music you’re involved with. ;)
Well I've been using Pro Tools for some time now and even passed some of the exams to become a certified user. And then Avid have recently increased their prices for standard users by 101%. So guess what? I took up Presonus' cross-grade offer and I've purchased Studio One this week to make it my main mixing DAW. I imagine I won't be alone in jumping from the (sinking) ship that is Pro Tools and Avid.
after looking at this video and reading the comments i decided to give a try to (studio one 4 ) i have been using pro tools and logic over the past 10 years for recording vocals and mixing ... am mainly a pro tools user if you ask but i must say i absolutely love it . i really love studio one its very easy to use and most of all gives a great professional sound. thanks to this video and the comments.. this would be my main go to DAW
Nice summerization! I agree with him all the points. For me the most important is that with Studio One you can work very quickly! I used to use many other DAWs but with Studio One i can be the fastest.
All those features are in Nuendo. The only thing that I don’t like about Studio One (maybe it’s only in the free version) but if I have bought plugins like Positive Grid, I cannot use it in Studio One. I have to buy it again in the format that it uses. If it uses VST, I would happily get into it. None of my purchased plugins and instruments are used, so it would be a massive investment that I’m not interested in.
Great video, Joe! I always learn something new from you. For the temporary grouping feature, you can also create a temporary grouping of non-consecutive tracks by holding down "control" (or "command", I assume, for Mac) instead of "shift" when selecting tracks. Then, once you have highlighted the tracks, you can adjust them, just like they're in a group. This is handy if you want to adjust a few tracks together without having to move them next to each other on your mixer.
Great video! I had started with ProTools Mbox and was doing 'ok' with it... but didn't like the MBox interface. Looked at the Presonus interface, liked what I saw, got it, saw that it had Studio One took a look @ Studio One and dove in and haven't looked back since.
Hi Joe, I can't help but notice that a lot of things you love of Studio One are present in Reaper as well: Small #1: Reaper has slip edit. (Pro Tools kind of has it as well, although not via the mouse but only via keyboard shortcuts afaik, which is far less convenient). Small #2: Reaper has fully customisable keyboard shortcuts. ("Fully" is actually an understatement!) Small #3: Reaper has temporary grouping. Big #1: Reaper has subprojects, which from my understanding work more or less the same way you described. Big #2: Reaper has astonishingly fast development. It's also scriptable and extensible, and has a vibrant community full of talented programmers, so if a feature you need is not available natively, there's a good chance it's already available as a script, or will shortly after you mention it in the forum. Big #3: Reaper isn't meant to be a "big major player" either. Its development is especially focused on leanness, customisability and extensibility: the Reaper installer + the SWS extension are less than 20MB! Just to say: if you guys find Studio One not for your taste (or your budget), maybe check out Reaper.
I have both. Reaper's also only $60 and that is THE full version with unlimited updates. But I use S1 because I like their included instruments, effects, soundsets, workflow, intuitive interface and I've learned it inside and out. Reaper involves some time investment learning all the scripts, commands and things that aren't that obvious unless you look deep under the hood.
Nathaniel Walker bro wtf are you mad about, Reaper is good and it works for people, leave it at that, you’re acting like the software fucked you and didn’t call you back
I love Reaper but now I love Studio One even more. Both are great! Tried to love pro tools for many years and I just can’t lol. It reminds me of using java in 2020.
I feel this Ive used. Pro tools for what seeks like ever / and after grabbing a faderport got a free version and then upgraded after I started realizing that my pro tools is now gaining dust! Lol - it's. Great program and your vids always help! - the slip editing is a key option as well /
Another one!!! U spoke directly to me about testing out other DAWs. I'm a studio one user but curiosity strikes once a while but now I know better!... MAKE MUSIC!! Thanks again Joe
You said what's most important ! Make music if you wanna make music. It's so much time spent at learning tools that it's really important to focus on what you really wanna do ! Thanks for the video though, was a good experience :)
Men as a Long time pro tools user, those features sound amazing!!! I really wish protools was more proactive. I don’t have the time to make a switch like this right now but men Im jealous of some of those.
Thanks for this video. I still do use Cakewalk (noch Bandlab) since around 25 years now. But the changes/improvements in this software have really touched the bottom actually. They are merely cosmetic type. As I see in your and Mike Enyo's videos, S1 has actually a lot of interesting improvements which makes it an interesting candidate for CW replacement. I am actually setting up my new Music Workstation and probably S1 will get on this device now.
That slide edit is amazing!!!!! I do hundreds of edits in pro tools & always have to drag the waves back together & fade 😭. I've been thinking of switching & this would make my work flow so much faster!!!!!
I'm using Reaper and every once in a while I'm watching videos like these in order to stay up to date regarding other DAW's functionality. It's always the same: almost every feature that is represented as "special" or "unique" is already integrated in Reaper. And if not, thanks to Reaper's "action functionality", you can implement it with just a few clicks. Or it can be found in thousands of ready-to-use-and-free scripts in ReaPack ... thank you so much Justin Frankel and this amazing Reaper community!
I'm playing around with S1 a bit and sort of like it. I miss Pro Tools editing and trying to get my head around these region overlaps in S1. But I'm gonna push through and do a few projects in S1 and see how it goes, because I have a Presonus interface AND I'm not willing to pay the hefty PT subscription anymore.
The DAWs do exactly the same thing in the end, but with different workflows. trust me as a web software developer and UX analyst :D. i just chatted with Steinberg guys to have the VU meters always available and visible for each audio channel, to have peak meters adjustable for rms/vu/k standards, to have a gain reduction meter for each channel (and not only with stock compressors). I think Studio One is the only to have this (? correct me if wrong, i checked Harrison MixBus and seems to have only VU Meters for busses) . One thing that you really underlined is the quick reactivity on bugs resolution and feature requests development, and i think this is what should bring you to chose between a company and another...
The 'hunt' for the daw that does what I want it to do has been the biggest challenge over the last year. As is often the case, my hunt was driven be a piece of hardware, my Native Instruments controller. Of course, I wanted the deep NKS daw integration that makes the keyboard so special. That meant I was limited to Ableton, Apple, or Steinberg. Ableton had the best integration for me, but isn't my preference for a daw, I want a timeline daw. Wasn't impressed with Cubase from the get go...and Logic just feels too GarageBand-y for me. The search ended just recently with Reaper. Everything you describe in your video, I can do in Reaper. If Presonus ever got on the SDK that NI sent them, and did some NKS coding for it, I'd switch my daw, and my interface immediately. I've always admired the daw integration Presonus has with their hardware. Cheers Joe, another great video.
Can you email presonus and ask them to make the GUI more 2 dimensional rather than flat. Love the functionality but If I am looking at it 8 hrs a day I'd like it to look more like a console. Ex. Outline the waveforms. The mix console looks very flat. I'd like the option to mix from the wave form view like in pro tools meaning they need to have more input/output and insert control on each track
It would be great if you could put out some studio one basic training videos so those of us that want to switch go in knowing what we are doing and not waste time fumbling around whole new daw before being able to record and mix as we would normally do. I want to switch from protools but this is what’s holding me back. Also, is studio one limited to 32 i/o like pro tools is unless one gets the ultimate/HD version? Thanks!
I am new to Studio One 5 and have been enjoying your videos very much to better understand the possibilities. I know you are a guitar player and that you would be the one to ask this question about what can be done using both my Ableton Live 10 and Studio One with the use of rewire. I am wondering if I can play my guitar using the Ableton racks that I have created, and record live on to Studio One in real time. I have seen a few videos of how to use rewire, but have not seen anyone doing anything in real time. Do you think that I can use rewire to accomplish this task?
The only problem I have with my cubase is that playing Piano on a multitrack session can be a pain with frequent stuttering and sound cutting out. I think its my laptop SMH Apart from that, I absolutely love cubase
I'll be honest with you I'm not had any luck with personas as far as emailing them I had an issue I had first purchased artist and was having issues opening plugins and working with plugins reached out to personas and never heard back from anyone I would get emails stating all we see you wrote in but no one ever got back to me about my issue so as far as that personas is crap I feel I just tried to figure out everything on my own or ask somebody else that uses PreSonus or a different dog to get insight from
I was looking for a free DAW (I gots no money) and was blown away by what they gave you in Prime. So much so that I bought Artist after just a coupla weeks. I had absolutely no trouble figuring out how to do the easy stuff, even a little tougher stuff like using my old Soundblaster card and a MIO MIDI interface was not too difficult, so I'm thinking when I decide to do some collab with a buddy that has PT (and was struggling with it) that this should be easy. What I figured out is...man, do I hate PT. S1 is just so intuitive compared to PT.
thanks for the video and ur effort. i really like what u the re doing there. im an ableton user and was looking to switch. but i was a little bit disappointed when i saw u dont have something like the simpler with slice mode. specially nowadays when people using so much samples and sometimes longer samples. drag and drop and adjust would be nice. and i read a little bit about that and this topic exist till 2017. would be nice to have that. otherwise i really like the daw. they can really hit ableton if they had better sampling option.
Funny enough I was looking for another daw besides reaper. But the good things listed here are all present on reaper anyway haha might end up not changing at all
Hi Joe Gilder, I am about to buy the latest Studio One, but a bit indecisive of whether to buy the artist or professional version. Money is not the problem. I have $1,000 saved up. I got interested with studio one because I heard that I would be able to customize the chords of the loops and I'm looking for a drag and drop DAW that will give me the platform to write metal and film music. What is the best studio one version for me, artist or professional? I'm a beginner songwriter. Thanks in advance.
Hi Joe. Would u know if presonus has plans to add a reference/master matching feature in the project page? That would be a very cool feature. Thank you and more power.
I`m a PT/Cubase User but in the last 4 years I been working more in PT. I like the Product but the Cie (AVID) are the worst. They just double the price for renewal and we are supose to say OK. I will probably still use it and slowly move back to Cubase and stop paying for useless Support services and Updates. Thanks for the Video, Slip editing look really cool
I really liked the recording and mixing features of studio one but the lack of good virtual instruments killed it for me. Logic had any sound just about I could want included for $200 and most (not all) are pretty great quality. Hopefully Presonus adds in the future or partners with someone else.
Hey Joe, I know this is an old video and I watch all of your videos because you’re very informative and I appreciate what you do for us. But I’m admiring your producers desk in the background and I would like to know what make and model it is.
I bought the Presonus Studio One 5 Sphere, very new to recording never used DAW, would you have a video on how to start Studio one, I’m just not sure how to get started
I never understood why Pro Tools was the industry standard $2000.00 for a dongle couple thousands for a DAW controller that had software end of life. I guess I came in late in the game. I've used Nuendo for years with no issue with Waves VST's also got into Studio One especially with the work flow and Impact.
Will the newest Pro version 5 software save the automation if you save multiple versions in multiple scenes (especially dynamic automation on different channels) that can be recalled later? Thanks a great video. Phil
Check it. They've got a limited time cross-grade offer to switch to Studio One: blog.presonus.com/index.php/2019/06/20/crossgrade-studio-one-professional-199-95-usd/
Hi Joe. Earlier this week i switched over to studio one 4 professional from the demo version. The problem I'm having is that the DAW still says DEMO instead of professional. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the DAW and in my presonus account it says that the software has been activated. I'm using Windows 10 on my PC. Do you know anyone else that has had this problem? Thanks.
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So I've been in FL studio for about 5 years and I just switched over to studio one last week and I gotta say I'm completely blown away. I saw all the reviews and comments about it on so many platforms about how good it is and I was pretty doubtful at first, but this DAW is awesome! I don't think I'm looking back. I make house and future bass music which I haven't seen much content or reviews about on the internet but all the features of studio one makes me believe there's nothing stopping me from doing anything ahah. The thing I love most about studio one is how easy I can mix and master tracks, and the chord track feature really helps me be a bit more creative. FL studio is a great daw, beautiful for people like me who are visual learners, but if you're looking to step up your game I suggest giving studio one a shot :)
completely agree, i've downloaded studio one 5 for a test and with 1 week i decided to delete FL Studio.
Me too, see how os too easy rendering to save CPU and you can Go back from where you started even with mixing plugins, see for some One who produce with Mouse os more easier to build an ideia, than do studio you Will have to play Many Times changing the time and note, in studio One i use One note and i Depp every think there i just focus in the tempo, after that i use One my keyboars rows to find the right note ONLY at One playing with than to see where AM, studio One found all vst pluggins no need jbrige as other Daws the most important think that defnitly switched me to studio One, the ONLY thing really miss from FL studio is detect scale
I feel so happy hearing people switching from Pro Tools
Pro tool is apple of the world of music production
@@arstar4914 No Logic literally is Apple of music production
@@TalmoTheSell well said! Literally , hehe.
Absolutely right Joe, it's all about the music.
I was a long time PT user too. I made the switch to Studio One about 4 years ago. I love it too! Great explanation of why you like it. Great channel too!
i've been using studio one for a little over 2 years now and i decided to watch this video for the heck of it. 2 mins in and i already learned a new tip. thanks!
Got my 1st copy for $20. It was a special sale when they were at NAMM for their release.
Dig it dude. I just made the switch this past week from Cubase, and couldn't be happier. This video really just validated my decision!
I recently switched over. I used FL Studio for most of the time but I wanted to get away from it, because it felt too limited for my purposes. I then used Bitwig Studio for a while seeing it was a great hybrid between FL studio interface and Ableton's, so I got to learn how to manage my mixes better without having such a steep learning curve. ( Although it was steep, coming from FL. )
But since I got Studio One, I deinstalled all my previous DAWs. It felt familiar. It was easy to find things, it has the best mixing so far, recording MIDI and automation is great.
Ofcourse there may be others who do similar things or whatever, but I just LOVE the tiniest detail, like customising your metronome with different sounds, if there needs to be a double beat, and if you want to hear a louder accent, or change that sound as well. Or if you prefer to have the Metronome baked in on the master or not, etc.
I mean a metronome is a metronome, but these are so user friendly. And every bit of extra help is extra time to invest in making music.
Just switched over from logic and it ain’t easy. I should mentioned I’ve retired my Mac for an PC. I created my template now so it’s very similar and arguably quicker. I am enjoying it and LOVE the shortcuts. The number pad is so useful for recording yourself!
I got hooked on Studio One as they were the first to enable ARA with Melodyne. Once I got into it, it just fit like a glove. I have used Cubase, Sonar, Ableton, Reaper, and Logic Pro X. All of them are good DAWs and I really liked Reaper. However, once I started using Studio One, it just worked like I thought it should work. Also, they keep making it better and better. I was already happy but each upgrade adds new features that I have found to be useful in my workflow. My three main programs are Melodyne, iztope and Studio One. And, they all seem to be working well together.
I’m making the switch from reaper because I used it in a live environment for one and I really like the faderport integration so that’s why I’m here.
Is it hard being such a likable guy? Amazing content, instantly subscribed. Thank you for the advice. Also, what you said at the end about sticking to one DAW and not stressing too much about which DAW you choose was just what I needed to hear; as someone with a relatively low income, I place a lot of importance and some stress in my decision on which DAW to buy, so hearing that from someone who clearly knows their stuff, especially after you backed Studio One so defiantly, was comforting. Thanks, I'm pretty sure my mind is finally made up.
Great video, I switched 2 years ago from Logic to S1. Never looked back.
Logic calls that flex-editing and it's automatic :| You can choose what you want to quantize to (quarter, eighth, sixteenth notes...) and also you can choose what percentage of transients to quantize in a selected region. You can of course go in an automatically adjust the points yourself, but it chops the sections up for you automatically based on the transients.
I really enjoy your tutorials. You talked about the different DAWs, I say it's not the program but the programmer.
You have a good voice for radio.
I like Event FX feature, solo button at the multiband compressor (sometimes I use it as EQ), and typing keyboard as MIDI controller feature
Reaper has proved to be the best of the affordable options for my studio, by a large margin. When I count all the small, useful features, lack of kludge, knowledge base, all of it - it wins out and keeps getting better.
All those small features are kind of in Logic too, the slip editing would be nice though. Logic’s thing with it is it’ll create the cross fades automatically and they’re SUPERB. I’m following along with Mix Together season 3 right now but using logic and it’s been an absolute godsend since I had to find a workaround without the slip editing function. I tried studio one for a while but I could never get behind it, I do really respect it as a DAW though
I just want to learn as many DAWS as I can just in case I'm in someone's studio and they have to step out for a second. I can keep working until they come back. But you're absolutely right about they all do the same thing. I been preaching that for a while
When I step out
Don't touch anything
Just learning studio one 5. Coolest thing I discovered so far when editing automation. I dont have to drag the dot around hoping to land on the target value. I can right click on it and type the value in! Much less stressfull!
Great DAW, if I ever decided some day to stop using Logic, I'll definitely choose this one ! The Mastering part of Studio One is awesome too !
Thanks for the refreshing view on Studio One. I have been using it for several years and never looked back,
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I don't really know how to use any DAWS at the moment, I'm a beginner who bought a faderport control device, and was planning on using it with Pro tools first, but i didn't realize that Studio one software came free with it. Now I've seen it i don't really see the point of even attempting to learn pro tools, i might delete it.
This Studio One is a nice looking program.
I've been using Reaper for several years and don't have any plans to change. But I must say that S1 is great. After working in Reaper, I found S1 to be really intuitive and easy to figure out.
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Slip editing is incredible. I just discovered it in Cubase, it was there the whole time and I didn't know. Great time saver
Joe, thank you sir! I just happened to stumble upon your video regarding the switch to Studio One. I'm a Logic user (Logic 9), but I wanted to try my hand at something simpler to begin writing songs. I'm excited because my Nord 5 will be coming in any day now and I'd like to start working with Studio One and work on mastering. I think this my be the answer to "mastering" which I have no experience with, but hopefully this will open up my understanding about it. I've been in mastering sessions before but many years ago, when I had an engineer I'd schedule work with. Anyway, thanks for your video, very, very cool info. I'm your newest subscriber! - Cheers!
This was very helpful. I've been "out of the game" since 2006. I had a Presonus Firestudio with Cubase [SE?] and recently, have been trying to decide on a DAW to get back into things. I've heard good things about studio one, but your reference to Cubase (something I'm "familiar" with) and the improvements presonus has made by controlling their product sold me. Thanks for the video!
You rock, dude! And those features rock. I’m in and pumped :)
I love Studio one but am also angry we still dont have a 5.1 surround sound feature yet
I got into Studio One shortly after Gibson bought Cakewalk and they stopped with Sonar. I went looking DAW after DAW and S1 was the one I fell in love with and fast.
Also the way it communicates with Console 1 and Icon Qcon ProX was a massive plus.
I’m really happy with it... so far.
Thanks Joe
Good stuff. Still looking at it in 2020.
Studio One was my first DAW. I actually made a song with the loops from Studio One. Years pass by, I start looking at other DAW's that had chord features and had a lot of videos out there on how to use it. Now that Presonus has added similar features, I keep going back to Studio One. You are right. I should spend my time learning that one DAW Studio One, I started two weeks ago just learning my main DAW. I believe there will be an update to the chorder better than Cubase because I'm not a piano player, and update the arpeggiator tool.
I too left Pro Tools for Studio One. I needed to bounce a mix for a client and PT would freeze while opening on my Windows laptop and iMac. After multiple restarts, that was the final straw. I had S1 Artist and I upgraded to Professional before the trial was up. It’s just an intuitive piece of software that has improved my workflow the
last 2 years.
Once I learned Reaper it was bye bye to my Pro Tools M powered.
Just when you think Reaper has shown you enough it's like
*but wait, there's more*
Just when you thought people couldn't be more annoying on UA-cam...
whyaskmenoely25: Hello!
Reaper is good but it is ugly looking and you can't deny that.
@@codelucky not when you download themes I got mine looking like logic Pro X now I custumed the whole of mine 🙏
@@codelucky There are themes / skins you can get for it to make it look however you want though
Thanks Joe!
After Sonar went down, I switched over to Mixcraft. I've since purchased a PreSonus audio interface that came with a copy of Studio One. For the most part, I actually did like the layout of the software, but I'll probably stick with Mixcraft for now, if for no other reason, I have to purchase an upgrade to use 3rd party VST's.
Cheers man, really insightful. I’m honestly being blown away by what Studio One can do. So sick of Logic and PT’s clunkiness and lack of undo/redo for each action or logical shortcuts. The live (show) side is also so quick and easy to setup sets and patches.
I started with Cakewalk (SONAR) back with version 1. I have grown with it. When I started to teach Sound Engineering at a local college 13 years ago I had to add Pro Tools to the learning curve. Never fell in love with it. I tell my students, “Use what you know.”
Meh. For me, what you know is irrelevant, because you can always learn something new. For me, it’s (a) what’s most comfortable for you, (b) what works best for you (workflow wise), and (c) what has the tools, features, and utility you need to do the specific tasks you need to do.
For instance, Ableton Live was perfect for me when it comes to categories (a) and (b) - it has the most pleasant user experience/aesthetics I’ve seen, as well as a super fast workflow (that I don’t think any daw can compete with). BUT, it completely lacked sophisticated songwriting utility (because it’s made for live use and simple EDM music-building).
Studio One, on the other hand, is only slightly less pleasant to use and has a slightly slower workflow, BUT it has tons of very nice features and songwriting utility to help someone compose more sophisticated music.
I tend to create various forms of soundtrack music, rather than anything electronic, so it would make sense that I went with the daw that has more utility for that.
So no. Comfort, workflow, and utility. Those are the big three categories that matter when choosing a daw, as they are essential to what you do with it. Your knowledge of different recording programs is always tentative and contingent - liable to change as you learn and explore more things. Best to look at how the program feels and works for the specific area of music you’re involved with. ;)
@@johnhill762 well they certainly should not use a DAW they do not know.
Just started using it. Its AMAZING !!!
Informative, intelligent, fun and a reminder of the true objective at the end.
Thanks for this, brother.
Well I've been using Pro Tools for some time now and even passed some of the exams to become a certified user. And then Avid have recently increased their prices for standard users by 101%. So guess what? I took up Presonus' cross-grade offer and I've purchased Studio One this week to make it my main mixing DAW. I imagine I won't be alone in jumping from the (sinking) ship that is Pro Tools and Avid.
Thank you for this video - actually thank you for ALL your videos!
I’m a Logic user but Studio One Pro is my secondary DAW. It had such an easy learning curve, is so versatile and sounds great. Still using v2 though.
Logic + Cubase all day every day. Ableton if you wanna get fancy.
after looking at this video and reading the comments i decided to give a try to (studio one 4 ) i have been using pro tools and logic over the past 10 years for recording vocals and mixing ... am mainly a pro tools user if you ask but i must say i absolutely love it . i really love studio one its very easy to use and most of all gives a great professional sound. thanks to this video and the comments.. this would be my main go to DAW
Nice summerization! I agree with him all the points. For me the most important is that with Studio One you can work very quickly! I used to use many other DAWs but with Studio One i can be the fastest.
All those features are in Nuendo. The only thing that I don’t like about Studio One (maybe it’s only in the free version) but if I have bought plugins like Positive Grid, I cannot use it in Studio One. I have to buy it again in the format that it uses. If it uses VST, I would happily get into it. None of my purchased plugins and instruments are used, so it would be a massive investment that I’m not interested in.
You have to have the full version to use 3rd party plugins.
Great thanks
For those that have Studio One Artist (not Prime) you can buy this add-on that provides VST support:
shop.presonus.com/VST-and-AU-and-Rewire-Support
Joe, you make great points and thanks again for putting S1 on the map!!!!!
Great video, Joe! I always learn something new from you.
For the temporary grouping feature, you can also create a temporary grouping of non-consecutive tracks by holding down "control" (or "command", I assume, for Mac) instead of "shift" when selecting tracks. Then, once you have highlighted the tracks, you can adjust them, just like they're in a group. This is handy if you want to adjust a few tracks together without having to move them next to each other on your mixer.
besides being a small company and the project window thing, you have either the same feature or an equivalent way to do the same things in logic.
The best thing about S1 is what you've mentioned, easy to use and custom service with their clients. That's how the game should be played!
Studio One is the way to go. Its just logical in its approach.
Been on Studio One since version 1, never made me wanna change!
Great video! I had started with ProTools Mbox and was doing 'ok' with it... but didn't like the MBox interface. Looked at the Presonus interface, liked what I saw, got it, saw that it had Studio One took a look @ Studio One and dove in and haven't looked back since.
Hi Joe, I can't help but notice that a lot of things you love of Studio One are present in Reaper as well:
Small #1: Reaper has slip edit. (Pro Tools kind of has it as well, although not via the mouse but only via keyboard shortcuts afaik, which is far less convenient).
Small #2: Reaper has fully customisable keyboard shortcuts. ("Fully" is actually an understatement!)
Small #3: Reaper has temporary grouping.
Big #1: Reaper has subprojects, which from my understanding work more or less the same way you described.
Big #2: Reaper has astonishingly fast development. It's also scriptable and extensible, and has a vibrant community full of talented programmers, so if a feature you need is not available natively, there's a good chance it's already available as a script, or will shortly after you mention it in the forum.
Big #3: Reaper isn't meant to be a "big major player" either. Its development is especially focused on leanness, customisability and extensibility: the Reaper installer + the SWS extension are less than 20MB!
Just to say: if you guys find Studio One not for your taste (or your budget), maybe check out Reaper.
I have both. Reaper's also only $60 and that is THE full version with unlimited updates. But I use S1 because I like their included instruments, effects, soundsets, workflow, intuitive interface and I've learned it inside and out. Reaper involves some time investment learning all the scripts, commands and things that aren't that obvious unless you look deep under the hood.
Never mind, I just found a video that describes how to do it
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Nathaniel Walker bro wtf are you mad about, Reaper is good and it works for people, leave it at that, you’re acting like the software fucked you and didn’t call you back
I love Reaper but now I love Studio One even more. Both are great! Tried to love pro tools for many years and I just can’t lol. It reminds me of using java in 2020.
I feel this Ive used. Pro tools for what seeks like ever / and after grabbing a faderport got a free version and then upgraded after I started realizing that my pro tools is now gaining dust! Lol - it's. Great program and your vids always help! - the slip editing is a key option as well /
Those all do seem pretty handy.
I’m going to try this for sure. Thanks for the tips Joe!
Another one!!! U spoke directly to me about testing out other DAWs.
I'm a studio one user but curiosity strikes once a while but now I know better!... MAKE MUSIC!!
Thanks again Joe
You said what's most important ! Make music if you wanna make music. It's so much time spent at learning tools that it's really important to focus on what you really wanna do ! Thanks for the video though, was a good experience :)
Men as a Long time pro tools user, those features sound amazing!!! I really wish protools was more proactive. I don’t have the time to make a switch like this right now but men Im jealous of some of those.
I only miss the timecode plugin from cubase
Presonus' responsiveness has not been my experience at all, but I do like all of the other features you mention. Nice video!
Been an S1 user since v2 and wouldn't change unless they changed.
Thanks for another great video Joe.
Thanks for this video.
I still do use Cakewalk (noch Bandlab) since around 25 years now. But the changes/improvements in this software have really touched the bottom actually. They are merely cosmetic type. As I see in your and Mike Enyo's videos, S1 has actually a lot of interesting improvements which makes it an interesting candidate for CW replacement. I am actually setting up my new Music Workstation and probably S1 will get on this device now.
That slide edit is amazing!!!!! I do hundreds of edits in pro tools & always have to drag the waves back together & fade 😭. I've been thinking of switching & this would make my work flow so much faster!!!!!
Slip edit is amazing! Every daw should have it
U da man! Thanks for the info. Stepping into the DAW world from live keys, bedroom guitar pickin’, and baby grand soundscapes. Thx again
I'm using Reaper and every once in a while I'm watching videos like these in order to stay up to date regarding other DAW's functionality. It's always the same: almost every feature that is represented as "special" or "unique" is already integrated in Reaper. And if not, thanks to Reaper's "action functionality", you can implement it with just a few clicks. Or it can be found in thousands of ready-to-use-and-free scripts in ReaPack ... thank you so much Justin Frankel and this amazing Reaper community!
If Reaper wasn't such a convoluted shit-show, it might actually be a good DAW.
I hate Reaper's GUI. Looks like a DAW for nerds/geeks
I'm playing around with S1 a bit and sort of like it. I miss Pro Tools editing and trying to get my head around these region overlaps in S1. But I'm gonna push through and do a few projects in S1 and see how it goes, because I have a Presonus interface AND I'm not willing to pay the hefty PT subscription anymore.
The DAWs do exactly the same thing in the end, but with different workflows. trust me as a web software developer and UX analyst :D. i just chatted with Steinberg guys to have the VU meters always available and visible for each audio channel, to have peak meters adjustable for rms/vu/k standards, to have a gain reduction meter for each channel (and not only with stock compressors). I think Studio One is the only to have this (? correct me if wrong, i checked Harrison MixBus and seems to have only VU Meters for busses) . One thing that you really underlined is the quick reactivity on bugs resolution and feature requests development, and i think this is what should bring you to chose between a company and another...
The 'hunt' for the daw that does what I want it to do has been the biggest challenge over the last year. As is often the case, my hunt was driven be a piece of hardware, my Native Instruments controller. Of course, I wanted the deep NKS daw integration that makes the keyboard so special. That meant I was limited to Ableton, Apple, or Steinberg. Ableton had the best integration for me, but isn't my preference for a daw, I want a timeline daw. Wasn't impressed with Cubase from the get go...and Logic just feels too GarageBand-y for me. The search ended just recently with Reaper. Everything you describe in your video, I can do in Reaper. If Presonus ever got on the SDK that NI sent them, and did some NKS coding for it, I'd switch my daw, and my interface immediately. I've always admired the daw integration Presonus has with their hardware. Cheers Joe, another great video.
Joe, as always tips I’ll use. Thanks!
They might've started it as a small software, but now it's even above ProTools OMG!!
Can you email presonus and ask them to make the GUI more 2 dimensional rather than flat. Love the functionality but If I am looking at it 8 hrs a day I'd like it to look more like a console. Ex. Outline the waveforms. The mix console looks very flat. I'd like the option to mix from the wave form view like in pro tools meaning they need to have more input/output and insert control on each track
great video as always, but i wist st1 could have pan law settings like other daws logic, pt, cubase, and not using the plugin for pan law....regards
It would be great if you could put out some studio one basic training videos so those of us that want to switch go in knowing what we are doing and not waste time fumbling around whole new daw before being able to record and mix as we would normally do. I want to switch from protools but this is what’s holding me back. Also, is studio one limited to 32 i/o like pro tools is unless one gets the ultimate/HD version? Thanks!
I am new to Studio One 5 and have been enjoying your videos very much to better understand the possibilities. I know you are a guitar player and that you would be the one to ask this question about what can be done using both my Ableton Live 10 and Studio One with the use of rewire. I am wondering if I can play my guitar using the Ableton racks that I have created, and record live on to Studio One in real time. I have seen a few videos of how to use rewire, but have not seen anyone doing anything in real time. Do you think that I can use rewire to accomplish this task?
ProTools didn't have an option for offline bounce? What...? That sounds suspect.
Ableton has that "group" feature
The only problem I have with my cubase is that playing Piano on a multitrack session can be a pain with frequent stuttering and sound cutting out. I think its my laptop SMH
Apart from that, I absolutely love cubase
this is about studio one dude
@@russangel i know, i was just ranting lol
was considering studio one but nah
The Artist version- is that okay to start with? I just want to learn all basic in mixing & mastering. I can’t afford the other versions.
Have you tried REAPER? It has all the features u mention.
I'll be honest with you I'm not had any luck with personas as far as emailing them I had an issue I had first purchased artist and was having issues opening plugins and working with plugins reached out to personas and never heard back from anyone I would get emails stating all we see you wrote in but no one ever got back to me about my issue so as far as that personas is crap I feel I just tried to figure out everything on my own or ask somebody else that uses PreSonus or a different dog to get insight from
I was looking for a free DAW (I gots no money) and was blown away by what they gave you in Prime. So much so that I bought Artist after just a coupla weeks. I had absolutely no trouble figuring out how to do the easy stuff, even a little tougher stuff like using my old Soundblaster card and a MIO MIDI interface was not too difficult, so I'm thinking when I decide to do some collab with a buddy that has PT (and was struggling with it) that this should be easy.
What I figured out is...man, do I hate PT. S1 is just so intuitive compared to PT.
thanks for the video and ur effort. i really like what u the re doing there. im an ableton user and was looking to switch. but i was a little bit disappointed when i saw u dont have something like the simpler with slice mode. specially nowadays when people using so much samples and sometimes longer samples. drag and drop and adjust would be nice. and i read a little bit about that and this topic exist till 2017. would be nice to have that. otherwise i really like the daw. they can really hit ableton if they had better sampling option.
Funny enough I was looking for another daw besides reaper. But the good things listed here are all present on reaper anyway haha might end up not changing at all
Hi Joe Gilder, I am about to buy the latest Studio One, but a bit indecisive of whether to buy the artist or professional version. Money is not the problem. I have $1,000 saved up. I got interested with studio one because I heard that I would be able to customize the chords of the loops and I'm looking for a drag and drop DAW that will give me the platform to write metal and film music. What is the best studio one version for me, artist or professional? I'm a beginner songwriter. Thanks in advance.
Hi Joe. Would u know if presonus has plans to add a reference/master matching feature in the project page? That would be a very cool feature. Thank you and more power.
Hey Joe I have a question about setting up a vocal chain. Do I just set it up on one vocal track or all the vocal tracks? I hope that makes sense.....
I`m a PT/Cubase User but in the last 4 years I been working more in PT. I like the Product but the Cie (AVID) are the worst. They just double the price for renewal and we are supose to say OK. I will probably still use it and slowly move back to Cubase and stop paying for useless Support services and Updates. Thanks for the Video, Slip editing look really cool
I really liked the recording and mixing features of studio one but the lack of good virtual instruments killed it for me. Logic had any sound just about I could want included for $200 and most (not all) are pretty great quality. Hopefully Presonus adds in the future or partners with someone else.
Joe Glider I wonder if you could talk to presonus and ask them to create UCNET as a VST to use in other daws. That would make them so much money
Hey Joe, I know this is an old video and I watch all of your videos because you’re very informative and I appreciate what you do for us. But I’m admiring your producers desk in the background and I would like to know what make and model it is.
I bought the Presonus Studio One 5 Sphere, very new to recording never used DAW, would you have a video on how to start Studio one, I’m just not sure how to get started
I never understood why Pro Tools was the industry standard $2000.00 for a dongle couple thousands for a DAW controller that had software end of life. I guess I came in late in the game. I've used Nuendo for years with no issue with Waves VST's also got into Studio One especially with the work flow and Impact.
Will the newest Pro version 5 software save the automation if you save multiple versions in multiple scenes (especially dynamic automation on different channels) that can be recalled later? Thanks a great video.
Phil