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Studio One 4

Overview

Work better, faster.

Studio One® 4 was designed with ease of use at its core. It seamlessly combines the time-tested and proven recording studio model with today’s beat- and loop-oriented production process so you can bring musical ideas to sonic reality more quickly than ever before.

An efficient, single-screen interface houses an unlimited number of tracks, intuitive editing tools, and advanced virtual instruments. Spend your precious time creating music instead of wondering what to click next. Studio One doesn’t dictate how you work or what you work on.

Three creative paths, one goal.

Studio One is your creative companion from start to finish. The Start page provides what you need to kickstart your creative process—open projects, set parameters, and check for updates and tips. From there, the Song page is all about recording, arranging, editing, and mixing your music with a complete set of virtual instruments, effects, and groundbreaking arrangement tools. Then, assemble and master your music in the Project page. Even better, the Project and Song pages are linked so if you need just that one little change in your master or stems, switch to the Song page, tweak, and mix back automatically to the Project. No other program accomplishes such an effortless transition as you move from the initial creative inspiration to the finished, mastered production.

Arranging at the speed of click.

Forget laborious transposition, cutting, pasting, and moving when arranging. With Scratch Pads to test out arrangements, an Arranger track that makes moving sections of songs around as easy as moving parts, and the groundbreaking Harmonic Editing—the most flexible chord track implementation ever—no other program can approach the ease of arranging and songwriting that Studio One 4 delivers.

Another Studio One first: Harmonic Editing.

Far more than just a simple chord track for note data, Studio One 4’s Chord Track is a songwriter’s dream come true. Create and change chord progressions, try out chord substitutions, substitute rich chords for simple ones, even have older parts follow a new, better chord structure you came up with thanks to the inspiration Harmonic Editing can provide. This breakthrough, which works with instruments and even audio tracks, underscores Studio One’s commitment to streamline the songwriting and music creation process.

What's New

The new Studio One is all about you.

Studio One 4 is a major update that combines the best of the traditional recording studio model with the modern methods of creating beat- and groove-oriented music. Thanks to flexible tools designed for creative musicians, Studio One 4 doesn’t dictate how you work—you do. You truly can work better, faster.

The new Chord Track with Harmonic Editing makes it easy to prototype songs, thanks to flexible transposition, key modulation, and chord substitution for note data and audio. The Impact drum module has been reborn as Impact XT, where you can create complete arrangements in a highly developed, sophisticated production environment. Patterns bring the concept of step sequencing into the 21st century with the fastest way yet to come up with drum and percussion parts. Sample One XT turns Sample One into not just a true sampler that can record data from anywhere within the program, but a powerhouse for slicing, dicing, and rearranging loops and beats.

With Studio One 4, you create music on your terms: Create without boundaries, produce without limits.

Streamline music creation with Harmonic Editing

This Studio One breakthrough redefines arranging. Based on a Chord Track that alters audio as well as note data, it has never been easier to prototype songs, try out new ideas, and smash creative blocks. What would it sound like if you substituted a more harmonically rich chord for an existing one? Or have older parts to follow a new, better chord progression you just came up with thanks to inspiration from harmonic editing? Now it’s easy to find out… and much more.

Detect chords automatically

When you come up with an inspired chord progression, you needn’t put your creativity on hold while you figure out what you played in order to add new parts. Built-in chord detection extracts chords from audio or instrument tracks; simply drag a Part to the Chord Track to create a reference for Harmonic Editing.

Impact XT: The complete production environment

Impact was a useful, flexible drum module—but Impact XT, which adds over 20 new and highly requested features, transforms Impact into a complete production environment for beats and loops. Load Parts into pads, then launch with beat quantization and real-time stretching. Don’t waste time mapping notes to drums: Impact XT auto-populates Studio One 4’s new Patterns with instruments for instant beat creation. Stack samples on pads, auto-slice samples on import, reverse sample playback, load up to eight banks, color-code parts, edit pads or the samples themselves—that’s just a fraction of what Impact XT now brings to your music. And, it’s fully backward-compatible with the original Impact.

Sample One XT goes (way) beyond sample playback

Sample One XT has expanded from sample playback into a sampling powerhouse. Sample, auto-slice, stretch, process, trigger, and deconstruct audio (sampled from inputs, buses, outputs, instruments, or tracks, as well as import/export) for breathtaking freedom in constructing powerful new performances and beats.

Sample One XT includes all the features you expect from a true sampler and also expands the synthesis-type options that can modify those samples. Sample One XT isn’t just a way to sample and play back sounds; it's also a way to warp and deconstruct them into entirely new creative realms.

Accelerated drum editing.

To go along with a world-class drum instrument, there’s an innovative, streamlined Drum Editor to edit drum parts as fast as you can think. Add that to the hundreds of pre-configured pitch name and mapping scripts available for free from PreSonus Exchange, and the new Drum Editor is like an accelerator for drum editing.

Patterns bring step sequencing into the 21st century.

The step sequencer has served us well for over half a century, but it’s time to reinvent step sequencing as a seamless, fast, fun part of making music. Patterns offer tight integration with instrument parts, automation, and Impact XT, along with variable sequence lengths and the ability to do melodies as well as drums. Patterns can even live side-by-side with conventional instrument parts on the same track—no need for separate tracks or plug-ins.

Switch with ease.

We get it... a lot of you are switching from other programs to Studio One. To make the process easier, Studio One 4 now supports AAF (Advanced Authoring Format) for data exchange with Pro Tools, Logic, Nuendo, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, and more.

Ready for ARA 2.0.

PreSonus worked with Celemony on the original Audio Random Access (ARA) spec that allows for seamless integration with Melodyne. ARA 2.0 is coming and is already available to third-party plug-in developers so they can access the Chord Track and Key Signature data used in Harmonic Editing. (Expect a free Melodyne update with Chord Track support this summer.) ARA 2.0 can even access data from multiple tracks at once, so once again, Studio One leads the industry in implementing technology that serves the program’s musicality.

New Features Overview

Arrangement / Editing

• Chord Track
• Real-time chord reharmonization of audio and instrument tracks
• Intuitive Chord Selector
• Automatic chord detection
• Real-time chord input from MIDI device
• Song key signature with detection
• Chord transpose
• ARA 2 support
• Expanded “Send to Notion” option for lead sheet creation
• Ripple edit mode
• Relative bar offset for songs
• “Remove gaps” for Events

Virtual Instruments – Impact XT

• New look and feel
• 8 pad banks
• 32 outputs (16 stereo, 16 mono)
• Color option for pads
• New 24 dB zero-delay
• Feedback filter
• Filter drive and punch controls
• Filter "soft" (clipping) mode
• Pad and individual sample editing
• New stack mode for layering samples on a pad
• Real-time time-stretching (follow song tempo)
• Trigger quantization
• Sample choke with 32 choke groups
• Reverse sample playback
• Sample level normalization
• Increased pitch envelope range (± 48 semitones or 8 octaves)
• Improved sample navigation
• Pad Follow mode for remote navigation
• Drag-and-drop pad swapping
• Drag-and-drop multiple samples at once
• Optional auto-slicing on sample import (shift)
• “Send to new Impact” shortcut in audio context menu
• Drag-and-drop sample import from Sample One XT and Presence XT
• Import and export of multisample files and ".soundx" containers
• Eight user-selectable color themes

Virtual Instruments – Sample One XT

• New look and feel
• Record page with live sampling
• Samples from any hardware input, send, output, other instrument
• Auto-slicing mode creates new samples automatically with adjustable gate
• Global and individual (sample) edit modes
• FX section: modulation, delay, reverb, gater, EQ, distortion, pan
• Expandable keyboard
• Real-time time-stretching (follow song tempo)
• Sample snap to zero crossing
• Sample crossfade
• Waveform slicing option
• Sample trim option
• Sample sustain, release, and ping-pong loop modes
• Graphical envelopes with adjustable attack, decay, release curve shapes
• Increased pitch envelope range (±48 semitones or 8 octaves)
• Alternative trigger modes: normal, one-shot, toggle
• Visual play cursor in waveform view
• Sample reverse playback
• Sample level normalization
• New 24 dB zero-delay feedback filter
• Filter drive and punch controls
• Filter "soft" (clipping) mode
• LFO random (sample+hold) mode
• Master volume control
• Adjustable voice limit
• Import and export of multisample files and ".soundx" containers
• Drag-and-drop export to Impact XT
• Eight user-selectable color themes

Virtual Instruments – Presence XT Editor

• Sample snap to zero crossing
• Reverse playback option
• 1,000 choke groups

Music Editor

• Drum Editor
• Drum and Melodic Patterns and Variations
• Patterns saved in Musicloop
• Automatic mapping (Impact XT)
• Alternate note coloring schemes
• Sync option for editors
• “Select notes…” options
• New or improved note event options (Humanize, Length, Velocity, Delete Notes)
• Multiple macro toolbars (page selection)
• Improved multi-editing
• Preserve and restore zoom states

Import / Export

• AAF import / export (supports Pro Tools, Logic, Nuendo, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, and others)
• Import song data

User Interface

• Alternative “light” color scheme
• Additional appearance presets
• Updated mix console design
• Track / Channel Notepads

Content

• New Sound Set “Impact XT Kits and Sounds” (1.8 GB)

Other

• External plug-in scanner (VST2, VST3)
• MP3 encoding in all versions

Tech Specs

Computer System Requirements

Studio One® is a modern, cross-platform DAW that is capable of operating as 64-bit application. While we make every effort to ensure Studio One will run well on the widest variety of computers possible, please read these specifications carefully to determine compatibility with your system.

Mac®

• macOS® 10.11 or higher (64-bit only)
• Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor
• (Intel Core i3 or better recommended)

Windows®

• Windows 7 (SP1 + platform update), Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 (64-bit only)
• Intel Core Duo or AMD® Athlon™ X2 processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X4 or better recommended) Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD® Athlon™ X2 processor
• (Intel Core i3 or AMD Athlon X4 or better recommended)

Mac and Windows systems

• 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended)
• Internet connection (needed for installation and activation)
• Monitor with 1366 x 768 resolution (high-dpi monitor recommended)
• A multi-touch-enabled monitor with TUIO support is required for touch operation
• 40 GB hard-drive space

Studio One Remote for iPad®

• iPad Pro®, iPad 2, iPad mini®, and newer models
• iOS 8 or later

Studio One Remote for Windows

• Compatible with Microsoft Surface 3 (and higher) and Surface Pro 2 (and higher)
• Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or later (Windows RT not supported)
• 2 GB RAM minimum (4 GB RAM or more recommended). Tablet must be x86-compatible (not ARM-based).

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