Studio One 5 Professional: A topnotch competitor for Logic X
Presonus Studio One Professional is a top-tier digtal-audio workstation (think Logic X) with some unique and time-saving features. My favorite feature, a superhandy module for organizing and mastering albums, has been joined in the latest version 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 features for a remarkably affordable $15 a month. Even if you’re a diehard user of another DAW, that alone warrants a serious look at this 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 and mixer DAW to adopt a drag-and-drop, paned design—you drag effects and instruments to the timeline to add them to tracks or to create a new track. The various areas of the program (timeline, browser, editors, and so on) fit together without overlapping, like panes in a window.
The original developers were also responsible for
