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Studio One 5 Professional

Price: £344 (inc VAT) from fave.co/3kWQzj6

Presonus Studio One Professional is a top-tier digtal-audio workstation (think Logic X) with some unique and time-saving features.

My favourite feature, a module for organizing and mastering albums, has been joined in the new version 5 by a clever take on organizing and managing a live performance.

Presonus has also unveiled Sphere: an online service that delivers the entirety of the company’s music software portfolio as well as storage and collaborative feature for a highly affordable £11.81 a month. Even if you’re a diehard user of another DAW, that warrants a serious look at a very powerful suite of music tools.

DESIGN AND FEATURES

By today’s standards, there’s nothing startling about Studio One’s design. However, at its inception in 2009, it was the first traditional track/ mixer DAW to adopt a drag and drop, paned design – you drag effects and instruments to the timeline to add them to tracks (or create a new track). The various areas of the program (timeline, browser, editors, and so on)

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