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PreSonus
Studio One version 2
A new version takes this breakout DAW into the big leagues
by Mike Metlay
...where we bring you follow-up articles with application hints and upgrade news about gear already reviewed in Recording
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We introduced our readers to Studio One in our August 2010 issue. In that review, I noted that while the computer-music world was full of DAWs, there was still a place for new ideas and innovations. I felt that Studio One, while a young and unfinished application in some ways, had an appealingly clean layout and worked reliably and well. It was already doing some things no other DAW could do, and did a number of other things more smoothly than the existing DAWs did. Fast forward to early 2012, and Studio One has been updated to version 2; this review was completed just as the significant 2.0.5 update shipped. What was once an upstart newcomer to an established hierarchy has grown into a solid, mature DAW that leaves very little to be desired from a feature-richness standpoint, while offering workflows that are cleaner and faster than what you’ll find in much of the competition. Just creating a grocery list of all the new things Studio One version 2 (“S1v2”) can do would fill the space we have for this article, so I’m going to focus on some of the new features that I regard as standouts. Throughout this review I will occasionally mention the different versions of S1v2; be aware that while the program originally shipped in Artist and Pro versions, there are now four different S1v2 packages— Free, Artist, Producer, and Professional. Melodyne integration The one feature that has everyone talking about Studio One 2 now is its integration with Celemony Melodyne, considered by many to be the very best intonation and timing correction plug-in available. (To learn more about Melodyne, check out Joe Albano’s excellent article in our May 2011 issue.) I don’t consider “everyone talking” to be a cliché, either; at a recent industry dinner, a rep for a much older and better-established DAW spoke to me respectfully of how PreSonus “definitely got everyone’s attention with that Melodyne thing.” From the user’s perspective, the feature itself is so trivially simple to use that describing it is almost an anticlimax. Working closely with Celemony, PreSonus has set up Melodyne singletrack (the new name for the entry-level program formerly known as “Melodyne essential”) to work within Studio One so that the lengthy process of audio transfer
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(import) and pre-analysis has been reduced to a single command. Highlight the audio you want to work with, hit ControlM, and bang, you’re working in Melodyne singletrack, in its own pane in the main DAW window. See Figure 1. And this isn’t a dumbed-down or ‘lite’ version, either, nor does it only work with Studio One. This is the same version of Melodyne singletrack that Celemony itself sells for $99, and it installs as a standalone and as a plug-in (VST, VST3, AU, and RTAS) that any other DAW can use. Studio One 2 Professional comes with a full license as part of the purchase, and Studio One 2 Artist and Producer have an upgradable 30-day trial version. If you already own a more advanced version of Melodyne, like Melodyne assistant with its suite of advanced pitch correction tools or Melodyne editor with its “DNA” polyphonic audio analysis, those will integrate into Studio One in exactly the same way. This is a brilliant move on PreSonus’s part. Pitch and time correction tools are not easy to write, and each DAW has its own, often painstakingly built from scratch... only to be largely ignored in favor of a purpose-built third-party correction product like, well, Melodyne. Now an industrystandard correction tool is simply bundled with Studio One and neatly integrated as if it was part of the DAW, bypassing the whole problem! Uncomplicated comping One of the features people wanted to see in Studio One was easy comping of multiple takes. S1v2 now offers a very fast and elegant comping system that does what you can do with other DAWs but with fewer keystrokes than many of its competitors. When you record multiple takes of a track (say, by recording in loop mode), the graphic display shows the most recent take. However, a right-click on the track reveals a menu where you can open up the track’s takes into their own graphic displays as layers under the display for the “real” track. You can then click and drag to select sections of each take and quickly audition them in place. If you hear a section of a take that you like, just doubleclick it and it is moved into the main track. You can build up a complete comp without ever changing tools, and once your comp is built, it’s easy to move the boundaries between sections, adjust their levels, adjust fades at the start and end of each section (Studio One puts tiny ones in place automatically to remove clicks and pops), and more.
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Contents
Talkback
Fast Forward
Finale 2012 As A Tool For Sample Playback
Mark De Clive-Lowe
Applied Acoustics Systems Chromaphone.
Reviewed and Revisited: PreSonus Studio One 2.0.
Toontrack EZkeys Grand Piano
Recording Fundamentals. Chapter 6: Introduction to Microphones—Part Three (From Proximity To Plosives)
Recording’s Showcase Of Sounds
Steven Slate Drums 4.0.
Sample Magic Electro and Hed Kandi: Disco House Samples
MOTU MachFive3
Reviewed and Revisited: audiobro LA Scoring Strings 2.0.
Milab DC-96B and DC-96C Condenser Microphones
Sennheiser MK 4 Condenser Microphone
Olympus LS-20M and LS-100 Portable Recorders
Readers’ Tapes
Advertiser Index
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Recording - June 2012 - Fast Forward
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Recording - June 2012 - Finale 2012 As A Tool For Sample Playback
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Recording - June 2012 - Applied Acoustics Systems Chromaphone.
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Recording - June 2012 - Reviewed and Revisited: PreSonus Studio One 2.0.
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Recording - June 2012 - Toontrack EZkeys Grand Piano
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Recording - June 2012 - Recording Fundamentals. Chapter 6: Introduction to Microphones—Part Three (From Proximity To Plosives)
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Recording - June 2012 - Steven Slate Drums 4.0.
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Recording - June 2012 - Sample Magic Electro and Hed Kandi: Disco House Samples
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Recording - June 2012 - MOTU MachFive3
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Recording - June 2012 - Reviewed and Revisited: audiobro LA Scoring Strings 2.0.
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Recording - June 2012 - Milab DC-96B and DC-96C Condenser Microphones
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Recording - June 2012 - Sennheiser MK 4 Condenser Microphone
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Recording - June 2012 - Olympus LS-20M and LS-100 Portable Recorders
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Recording - June 2012 - Readers’ Tapes
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