Studio One has come a long way since finding its feet back in the 2000s. With its inaugural version released in 2009, Studio One spent the early part of the last decade gradually establishing itself into a formidable alternative to many of the more familiar heavy-hitters. Yet it wasn’t until 2015’s Studio One 3 that the most convincing case to ditch Live, Logic and Cubase and turn to PreSonus’s burgeoning mega-DAW was made.
With subsequent iterations (4, 5 and numerous point updates) bringing slick additions like chord detection, video editing and a live