Studio One 5.5 released.
Have it installed. Its stable. And the project page features are nice to have
Yes more stable for me as well, really happy about that! Just Melodyne ARA integration still doesnāt work for me in native mode, only running in Rosetta (I have Melodyne 5 Editor and it tells me no version installed). Do you happen to run into this problem as well or is it all smooth sailing for you?
PS: Studio One 5 is so great for composing, mixing and even mastering, real happy that Iām not the only one on here that appreciates it
as I hardly use melodyne, I havent run into that issue yet. but at the moment I use rosetta mostly anyway, as some plugins I want to use still dont run natively yet. so far its smooth sailing. cant wait to see how native mode works then when all plugin are ported. I try to start in native mode for projects, then switch to rosetta when needed.
yeah, S1 is great. I produce techno / house (more house than techno), and Im really productive in S1. I really like how you can either āmasterā in the song itself or create a project where the song is rendered to where you have all fresh ressources to master. I like the concept.
S1 user here as well :). Havenāt installed the update yet but usually Iāve had no real issues with Melodyne - just Command + M and then Iām into the editor. Itās not that youāre having issues with, right?
// OTOH, using Melodyne is convincing me more and more each day that itās playing a major part in destroying the magic in music (just as the non-use of ambience/rooms in a lot of modern music) //
Iām somebody who did a lot of DAW hopping over the years. I mostly bounced between Ableton Live and Cubase (capture ideas and finish respectively).
I was given a NFR copy of Presonus Studio One a few years back from a rep at a trade show I was working at.
I wanted to give it a go again last year so I upgraded my old copy to 5.
I was happily surprised by some of the features and how well things were thought out.
Itās really grown into something special now.
The Softube Console 1 integration is the best Iāve seen. Presonus always seems to be the first to jump on new features (like colored tracks reflected on the fader unit).
ARA integration is awesome as well.
I like how you can use melodyne to quickly extract notes from an audio recording as MIDI.
If I record an analog synth but want to add a filter+envelope (Volcano 3 or other filter) itās super easy to make that happen.
Everything seems like itās thorough without feeling like tacked on bloat.
Point being, Iām going to fully switch to S1 for a while as a replacement for Cubase (and maybe even Ableton Live). I probably wouldnāt have done this before version 5 honestly.
Edit:
As far as Melodyne destroying music; it depends on how you use it.
If you just correct and perfect errors, then yes.
I use it more creatively. To make parts that didnāt exist. Add harmonies that didnāt exist, or extract information to create cohesive parts related to each other. Sometimes to correct a bad error without having to re-record.
As long as youāre aware that a little imperfection is a good thing, youāll be fine
Fully agree with this, buddy
And also about the Melodyne thingie (issue is, IMO, that almost every commercial release doesnāt consider that thing about the little imperfections being a good thing)
Opportunity to stand out from the crowd is what I see
Hereās a thing I figured out how to do last night.
Recorded myself strumming my guitar into studio one.
Then opened the track with melodyne. Then created a tempo track from the recording. Dragged that tempo track into the tempo track in studio one.
Now studio ones āmaster clockā is my performance, and I can program midi which will play in time with that recording. Pretty sweet.
There are a few settings you have to implement to do this, but when you know them, I would say itās a one minute process.
I can write down the process when Iām in front of a computer, in case anyone finds this intriguing
Thanks for sharing! Studio One is so great, it does so much - often in a slightly weird way lol - but I feel once I understand how it wants me to work itās the DAW I am fastest and most creative in.