Studio One 3 Professional Creative Music Production Environment (License Code + Quick Start)
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Platform For Display: Physical box & Code
Edition: Professional
Features
- Elegant single-window work environment with powerful drag-and-drop functionality, multi-touch support, and unlimited audio tracks, Instrument tracks, virtual instruments, buses, and FX channels
- NEW Arranger Track with innovative Scratch Pads
- NEW Presence XT sampler and Mai Tai polyphonic, analog modeling synth; includes 36 64-bit Native Effects, 5 virtual instruments, and 4 Note FX in all
- NEW Build unique, layered sounds with Multi Instrument and Extended FX Chains with parallel processing
- Pristine sound quality, with a critically acclaimed mix engine, new synthesis engine, native 64-bit resolution, and support for up to 384 kHz audio
- Software accessed via license key upon registration with manufacturer
Description
Raise your standards with Studio One 3 Professional! Built by creative people for creative music production, it contains everything you'd expect from a modern digital audio powerhouse, and adds innovative songwriting and production tools that inspire new ways to craft unique and evocative sounds, plus built-in mastering and digital delivery. From set up, dialing in sounds, recording, sequencing, arranging, and sonic experimentation to mixing, mastering, and even online delivery, Studio One 3 is a modern digital audio powerhouse that was designed to keep you inspired and in the flow-focused on your music first. Built by and for creative people, Studio One has become one of the most widely adopted digital audio workstations in professional and project studios worldwide due to its fast, flow-oriented, drag-and-drop interface; ease of use; and superb 64-bit sound quality. Version 3 introduces innovative songwriting and production tools, inspiring new ways to craft unique and evocative sounds, iPad control, and a reengineered console for more accurate and intuitive mixing. Its stunning new interface adds dual-platform multi-touch support, is optimized for high-resolution displays, and includes dynamic, context-sensitive documentation, help, and tool-tips.
Item Weight: 9.4 ounces
Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 5.91 x 7.87 inches
Item model number: S1 PROF3.0 DNLD VBOX
Date First Available: May 20, 2015
Media Format: Download
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One of the immediate draws as it regards my choice was that there were many features that I had in my old DAW that wer similar enough for me to begin using Studio One immediately. Further noted was the fact that there were so many videos explaining how to use the software. Studio engineer Dave V. has a whole series of vids which he makes easy to understand and can be viewed at HomeRecordingMadeEasy.com. I highly recommend these videos. Dave says Studio One 3 and 4 are the most stable programs he has ever used and he is conversant with all the pro studio software like Pro Tools and Live. I really like this software and you won't be disappointed going with Studio One especially when it comes to the price comparisons.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2019 by Amazon Customer
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Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2016 by Djbrian21
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Edition: Professional
I prefer to focus here on specific features – cloud integration, the Scratch Pad and the Project Page mastering tools that really set Studio One apart for me in terms of improved workflow. I’d encourage anyone more interested in how Studio One implements traditional DAW functionality to check out online tutorials and demos. I think the core feature set and UX is comparable to DAWS such as Cubase, Logic and Sonar more so than say Ableton and Reason. The Studio One interface is still a bit menu-heavy for my taste but it’s attractive, easy on the eyes and the keyboard shortcuts make it comfortable to navigate once you’re familiar. Seamless web integration – particularly with SoundCloud – is a key part of Studio One’s user experience. The initial screen includes (by default) a feed of product-related ads for ad-ons, related tools, controllers, sound packs etc., as well as online demos and tutorials. Although there’s an ample manual, PreSonus is acknowledging that many users pick up software skills by watching others and/or simply diving in, rather than methodically studying large texts. Any available Studio One upgrades are clearly flagged and can be downloaded immediately and installed without leaving the application (unless of course a major revision requires it). In addition to convenience I think this reflects the industry trend towards software subscriptions rather than one time purchase. The ‘units of measure’ in Studio One are the Song and the Project – projects being an ‘album’ made from one or more songs. The final outcome can be a CD (Red Book audio or mp3), a digital image or file stored locally or deployed as a digital release – all of this done from within Studio One. The Scratch Pad function is something I’ve wished for in other DAWs for some time. Working with multiple versions of individual tracks within a project has long been standard – not just in software but going back to the earliest automated digital mixing boards. However manipulating synchronized groups of tracks and entire slices of arrangements has typically involved ad-hoc version control: saving and restoring entire projects, awkward cut and paste and copying files around, etc. It’s been doable but in my opinion never as seamless as it should be. Studio One’s Scratch Pad function acknowledges this aspect of production workflow as ‘first-class functionality’. Scratch Pad allows you to extract and interact with snapshots of your arrangement: copying not just to one but any number of scratch pads where you them modify them and easily call them up and A-B against your working arrangement. It’s an easy-to-use way to try out arrangement-scale changes and compare them non-destructively against your working arrangement. Then if you choose you can swap in your modified version or simply discard it. All versions are stored within the Song’s files with no need to reload anything. A great idea and I think a logical extension of how people work with the materials of software-based music production. I find the Project Page mastering functions as intuitive as any I’ve come across. Instead of freezing a mix and importing it into a separate mastering suite, Studio One let’s you gather songs directly into your project and, from the Project Page, apply effects, levels, fades/cross fades individually or project-wide. The visual timeline metaphor so familiar to song production is applied here to the collection of songs. Instead of individual instrument tracks in a ‘rack view’, you have individual songs – it just makes sense. And once you’ve added a song to a project, it’s not frozen: you can easily return to the song view and work on it further. Any subsequent changes you make to the mix on the song page are automatically propagated into the project – the wall between song and mastered project is essentially gone. There’s still no substitute for ears but the visual feedback and care PreSonus took with the UX makes all of this so much easier. Anyone intimidated by the ‘black art’ aspect of mastering should have no fear. Performance-wise, I recommend a pretty robust machine for Studio One. On a 2.9 Ghz HP Pavilion running 64-bit Win7 with 6GB of RAM and an EMU PCI soundcard I’m unable to play the sample projects without a lot of audio buffer tweaking and ultimately muting some tracks. I can create smaller audio recording-based projects of 4-6 tracks with no problem and MIDI projects with even more. But if you’re working with large numbers of plug-ins and real time audio rendering you’ll need the horsepower. For someone like myself whose recording experience spans the analog/digital divide it’s interesting to recall back when vendors recommended disconnecting DAW-dedicated computers from the internet to avoid malware and background process activity – not to mention the inevitable easy distraction (still an issue, IMO). Obviously things have changed in terms of how people educate themselves, collaborate and perform actual music production. PreSonus signals with Studio One they get it and there’s no point pretending otherwise.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2016 by frankp93
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Edition: Professional
My initial experience with this DAW was not good. But after giving it another look(and finding some useful instruction which is scarce), I can see that it has some good features. It is not the easiest DAW to become comfortable with and setting up a midi keyboard was more difficult that any other DAW I have used, but once you learn how to do it, it works. For example, in Ableton, just one click on an icon gives you midi from the computer keyboard, which is nice for setting things up. If you connect a midi keyboard in Ableton, it will most likely work instantly by default. The same is true with Mixcraft and Magix. But here it is much more complicated. To get a keyboard to work, you must select it as in many other DAWs but then you must open the mixer, which is unusual just to set up a midi device. Anyway, after getting through this nonsense, it works. It is still not my first choice in DAWs, but some may like this. It costs more than double Mixcraft but a lot less than Ableton. To download all the supplemental files will take you many hours. I found that very frustrating. I think their server is very slow. I fault this for its lack of ease of use, but the features are there if you are willing to learn them. I would take off a star for excessive complications but it then gains a star for a wealth of supplemental material(more than 30 gigs worth! Have fun downloading that!). This would not be my first choice in DAWs. My first choice is Mixcraft Pro Studio 7 and Ableton Live. I prefer Mixcraft over Ableton not just because it costs so much less, but because it provides the best workflow for my purposes and has all the features I need as well as being very accommodating to plugins. The nearly free(it comes free with some midi keyboards and devices) version of Ableton Live Lite provides excellent features to compliment other full blown DAWs. I like Native Instruments products as well and their free demo version of Kontakt 5 is awesome(the time limit of a session can be easily overcome by simply using a different mapper to compose and then when ready to mix to audio, quickly set up Kontakt 5 and mix down; the same is true using other time limited free plugins)! By the way, unlike many other DAWs, you cannot use this on as many of your computers as you like. You may install it on as many computers as you like but only authorize use for a maximum of five at a time(which most likely will suit your needs). You can always un-authorize a computer so if you get a new computer, you will have no problems. Each time you authorize, your count out of five goes down, and each time you un-authorize, your count out of five goes up; this occurs in the account you set up with Presonus. I am also not very impressed with their Youtube channel. The videos offer some help but often seem more interested in advertising features than actually explaining their use. In fact, the speaker actually says that he doesn't understand some features! Welcome to the club. For example, he mentions setting up keyboards but says he rarely does so and really doesn't explain the entire process. In fact, in his presentation we see his keyboard shows "port not found". The PDF manual is pretty good, though. I should also point out that this is the most unfriendly to third party plugins of any DAW I have used. Supposedly, the 64 bit version will only accept 64 bit plugins. I tried and could not get it to accept one(most third party plugins are 32 bit). The 32 bit version is supposed to accept only 32 bit plugins. I tried a myriad of them and could not get it to accept a single one. Compare this to the 64 bit version of Mixcraft Pro Studio 7 which will accept both 64 and 32 bit third party plugins. In fact, it is very rare for Mixcraft to refuse a plugin. Plugins are important and this is a serious drawback of the Presonus. Now you know one reason why I prefer Mixcraft. I would say that the Presonus does offer quite a selection of instruments, loops and sounds, so how much of a drawback that is I will leave up to you. I like the ability to use plugins. As far as Ableton goes, it will accept plugins of the bit type of the Ableton version, but I have never had Ableton refuse a normal plugin. Magix also has a very good plugin system. Even LMMS is good with plugins. To make matters worse, it will not accept video formats unless you have QuckTime player, which is a problem for most Windows users. I tried loading an MP4 video and it was rejected. How many obstacles does this program present? This DAW has some nice features that a professional would like, such as nice mastering in the Project view, but I can't see serious professionals going for this, except as an adjunct to their other DAWs(as I do). I am being kind keeping this at five stars.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2015 by jack wilinsky
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Edition: Professional
I've had the most difficult time trying to download this order,,,,, I bought it several weeks ago and STILL have not got it downloaded to my computer. If I would have known downloading was going to be so difficult I would have never ordered the download version. I would much rather have the box version.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2016 by Amazon Customer
Platform For Display: Physical box & Code
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Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2015 by Brent Faulkner
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Edition: Professional
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Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2015 by Amber FLYNN
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Edition: Professional
I consider myself to be an amateur recording artist. Last year, I worked on an instrumental Christmas Album that I recorded using Garage Band and my midi keyboard. It goes without saying that this software blows Garage Band out of the water. The variety of voicings and samples and effects really gives you a world of musical options at your finger tips. I was able to set up my midi keyboard without any difficulty (I use a Casio CDR-230). I looked up a tutorial on YouTube on how to set it up in Studio One and I didn't have any trouble at all. I feel like a lot of the layout is intuitive. There is a LOT that you can do with your tracks in regards to editing and mixing. I love being able to go in and change wrong midi notes or adjust the pitch of vocals using Melodyne. It does take a while (for me it took about 4 hours to download EVERYTHING) and a bit of space (over 25 GB) to load onto your computer. It comes with a download key card, so its easy to load onto a device that doesn't have a CD-Rom drive. In terms of usability, I've used a few different DAWs in the past and I find this one to be pretty user friendly. I love the abilty to color code tracks. It makes it very easy to visually group your different instruments. There are some helpful tutorials and videos onine that I watched to help me with the basics of learning this software. This pretty much has everything you could need to produce professional quality recording. The instrument voices, samples, and loops sound phenomenal. The layout is easy enough for a novice to use, but a professional will feel right at home. I feel like this software is a tremendous resource for the at home recording artist. I've already started working on my next instrumental album and Studio One is really helping me create something that is polished and professional. I love it and would absolutely recommend it.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2015 by Susie Q.