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Audio/MIDI Recording and Production Software with Unlimited Tracks, 64-bit Processing, Plug-in Suite, and Mastering Tools

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A Feature-packed DAW That's Easy to Use and Powerful

PreSonus Studio One Pro music creation and production software gives you more than simply a powerful DAW; it's made to work seamlessly with your interfaces and controllers — especially PreSonus hardware. You get unlimited tracks within a very easy-to-use single-window interface, with drag-and-drop convenience. In addition to its 64-bit processing capability, Studio One Pro offers great mastering tools and a collection of plug-ins for a start-to-finish "in the box" recording solution! Call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer today and find out more about the incredible Studio One Pro!



PreSonus Studio One Pro Music Creation and Production Software at a Glance:
  • The quality you need under the hood
  • Wide compatibility with interfaces plus easy configuration
  • Handy Start page, friendly navigation
  • Drag-and-drop simplicity
  • Stunning plug-ins and easy MIDI mapping
  • Create production-quality masters in the box

The quality you need under the hood
Studio One Pro is based on a cutting-edge audio engine that delivers unparalleled sound and automatically switches between 32-bit and 64-bit floating-point processing on the fly (even with a 32-bit OS), ensuring the highest quality audio at all times.

Wide compatibility with interfaces plus easy configuration
Studio One Pro is compatible with any ASIO-, Windows Audio-, or CoreAudio-compliant audio interface, including, of course, the entire line of PreSonus interfaces. Studio One Pro recognizes your PreSonus interface, and preprogrammed templates automatically create software inputs and assign them to the appropriate hardware inputs on your PreSonus interface. You don’t have to configure your software to work with your hardware—Studio One Pro does it for you!

Studio One Pro stores I/O configurations with each song, for each computer, and for each device driver. As a result, you can take a song to a friend’s studio, use Studio One Pro with their interface, and when you get back to your studio, Studio One Pro will recall the original I/O configuration for the song, as if you never left. This works regardless of the interface.

Handy Start page, friendly navigation
A powerful tool that will appeal to professionals and hobbyists alike, the Start page allows you to access recent songs and projects, create new ones, configure external devices, and access tutorial information, demo songs, and a special PreSonus news feed. You can download updates and support materials directly from the Start page, without ever leaving Studio One Pro.

Unlike most music-production programs, a single, straightforward workspace allows you to track, edit, and mix in one easy-to-navigate window that you can access with a single click. Or if you wish, you can separate the Console and Arrange views and can even drag them to separate displays. A compact Console view allows you to mix while viewing the arrangement so you don’t have to bounce back and forth between windows. You also can switch to a larger Console view—yet another way that Studio One Pro helps you work quickly while giving you maximum flexibility.

The Arrange view employs a waveform display with user-selectable color-coding and sample-level zoom. The Arrange view shows you the big picture, while the Edit view shows you the up-close details; used together, they virtually eliminate the need to zoom in and out. The Console view contains faders, solos, mutes, pans, and other expected elements. It also includes extensive sidechaining capability.

Studio One Pro’s Browser provides instant access to effects, loops, instruments, and other key elements. You can preview any audio clip, and if the clip has tempo information encoded, it will play synced to the song tempo.

Drag-and-drop simplicity
Studio One Pro’s powerful drag-and-drop function allows you to drag an audio clip, effect, or a virtual instrument from the Browser directly onto a track in the Arrange or Console view. Time stretching enables Studio One Pro to automatically match tempo-encoded audio clips with Song tempo. You can copy an effect or a whole chain of effects—including settings—by simply dragging to a new track in the Console view. These are just a few of the many ways that Studio One Pro’s Browser and drag-and-drop implementation allow you to work quickly, without scrolling through pages of menus. It’s a lot more fun too! No other music-production program even comes close.

Stunning plug-ins and easy MIDI mapping
Studio One Pro supports ReWire and the VST and AU plug-in formats, including the new VST 3 plug-in specification, so Studio One Pro is ready to use the newest plug-ins as they are released. It also utilizes automatic delay compensation, which keeps tracks in sync regardless of plug-in processing. But the most glittering gems are PreSonus’s proprietary Native Effects Suite plug-ins, which include a wide variety of built-in effects, such as compressors, EQs, distortion, delay effects, amp modeling, modulation effects, and reverbs. These are brand-new plug-ins that process audio with 64-bit floating-point double precision. This is truly state-of-the-art technology. Three new PreSonus virtual instruments are also bundled with Studio One Pro , including SampleOne, a virtual sampler that offers the fastest sample mapping available.

When it comes to MIDI mapping, Studio One Pro changes the rules yet again. Of course, you can record MIDI parts and then tweak them in a piano-roll editor. But the real fun starts with Control Link, the most intuitive MIDI-mapping system available. Simply move the hardware and software controls to be linked and click the Link button for instant mapping. In Global mode, hardware and software controls maintain a one-to-one relationship, so a hardware control is linked directly to one software control for the entire program. In Focus mode, control maps only apply to a particular plug-in, so you can make different control maps for each plug-in, and the Focus map is stored with the plug-in, giving you no-sweat, context-sensitive MIDI mapping. This works with all parameters of any VST or AU plug-in. At last, a music-production application that makes controller mapping as easy and flexible as it always should have been!

Create production-quality masters — in the box
The Project page is a complete mastering solution that is fully integrated with the rest of the program. The Project page includes all the necessary tools to create a production-quality master, including effects, crossfades, volume envelopes, and meters. You can make disc images, burn Red Book CDs, and create digital-release albums, complete with metadata. In addition, Studio One Pro creates an intelligent link when songs are placed in a Project for mastering, automatically updating any changes to the original tracks or subsequent mixes. From basic tracking to multiple-release mastering, Studio One Pro is the complete solution.

PreSonus Studio One Pro Music Creation and Production Software Features:
  • Elegant single-window work environment
  • Powerful drag-and-drop functionality
  • Unlimited audio tracks, MIDI tracks, virtual instruments, buses, and FX channels
  • Content browser with convenient sort options and preview player
  • Integrated mastering solution with automatic mix updating, waveform editing, effects, Red Book CD burning, and digital release
  • Automatic delay compensation
  • Advanced automation
  • 64-bit processing (even on 32-bit machines)
  • Easy-to-use sidechain routing
  • 64-bit effects suite
  • Stunning virtual instruments
  • User-friendly sampler
  • Most intuitive MIDI-mapping system available
  • Real-time audio timestretching and resampling
  • AU, VST2, VST3, and ReWire support
  • K System metering
  • Gigabytes of inspiring content
  • Compatible with any ASIO-, Windows Audio-, or Core Audio-compliant audio interface

PreSonus Studio One Pro music creation and production software makes a powerful, easy-to-use computer recording solution!

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Reviews

Super Stable

by Ralph Klisiewicz from Chicago IL
June 2, 2011
Music Background: self taught producer
I have tried several other PC compatible DAWs but I have been mostly disappointed until I got my hands on S1. What makes this DAW really unique is its stability and performance. I have an I7 quad pr... read more [+]ocessor and I have files that have about 20 tracks each running about 3-4 3rd party plug ins (in addition to buses that have about 5-6 plugins) and NO LATENCY issues. I have not even bothered changing sample size in audio settings. Even when I record vocals, all my soft synths and audio processing plug ins are just cruising along.

This DAW is often criticized for lack of good soft synths. I agree, the soft sythns are pretty much general midi type of garbage (except for impact which I use often). However, if you are serious about your production, you will be using 3rd party plug ins anyways.

Therefore, If you are looking for a STABLE DAW this is something you want to look into. close [-]

One Mighty Software. It blows the lids off the rest!!

by Greg Mario from Corsicana, TX
March 12, 2011
Music Background: Independent Artist
Drag-and-drop features, including plug-in effects right onto the tracks. Built-in mastering suite. Perfectly mapped to any Presonus audio interface the minute you're plugged in. Spent less than a minu... read more [+]te setting up my audio hardwares. This is unlike other DAWs where precious amount of time is wasted in the setting up process. 32-bit and 64-bit OS support. Don't worry about opening up the manual, or downloading that tutorial video off YouTube. Studio One will make you feel like you've already known each other since childhood. I've used my Korg NanoKontrol for the virtual faders on this DAW, and the two work flawlessly together as if they're a match made in heaven!! What would you not love about this software!! This one is a charmer!! Just so you know, the guys behind Cubase and Nuendo are the same guys behind this amazing software!! I highly recommend this DAW to anyone, novice or pro!! close [-]

Start to Finish - One Program!

by Tom Wilson from Rhinehart Music Center, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN
November 5, 2010
Music Background: FOH Engineer/Recording Engineer/Technical Operations Supervisor
With hours logged on every major DAW out there, I am blown away by Studio One Pro. It is fast, it is intuitive, and it has every software tool you need to go from Tracking to Mixing and even Mastering... read more [+]! Add any of the PreSonus I/O hardware, a Laptop and a FaderPort and you'll have an awesome mobile recording rig without breaking the bank. Put it on your studio PC or Mac for limitless creativity. I will recommend this software to every musician and engineer I know. close [-]

Room for one more DAW?

by Chad Cohoon from Cape Cod
September 5, 2010
Music Background: Hobbyist Prosumer Pro-wanna-be-all-I-can-be
I heard of Studio One last year when it came out and my first thoughts were, "Come on guys, what a waste of resources....focus on what you are great at...hardware!).

Well, having used L... read more [+]ogic Pro, Pro Tools, Sonar, Ableton, and toyed with several others, I can solidly say that this DAW is not only well worth your time and penny to check out but also here to stay for a while.

Developed in collaboration with Kristal Labs comprised of Wolfgang Kundrus and Matthias Juwan, both former heavy hitters of Cubase and Nuendo, this DAW although only on v. 1.5 is nimble, mature, sonic-ally gorgeous, and intuitively innovative.

It almost feels like these two gentleman had a few things they really wanted to get implemented for previous users of other DAW's and found a benefactor with Presonus to share and join the vision of their mission.

This DAW really is a breath of fresh air. Now that being said, it is still on v. 1.5 and although I sound like a fan boy, I miss many of the other features in Ableton and Logic, such as folder tracks and richer instrument/effects options and jump back to use them on occasion. However, with the speed at which v. 1.5 came out (as a free upgrade), it won't be long before S1 not only has it all, but has pushed their creativity caps to a streamlined and well conceived apex.

So if you are just getting into the game, you can't get a better deal than Logic Studio, has it all and it sounds great. But if you already have the after-market plugins and primarily use Komplete, Omnisphere, etc. etc. and are more concerned with a fast and phenomenal sounding, 64-bit host...you may find yourself in love with this program, I obviously have.

I am also excited at what Presonus may bring to the table with their hardware integration. Excellent job Presonus and the Studio One team!
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STUDIO ONE PRO

by JOHN LAWTON from IRVINGTON, NJ
April 30, 2010
Music Background: MUSICIAN/COMPOSER/DRUMMER/BASS PLAYER/KEYBOARD PLAYER/GUITAR PLAYER/RECORDING ENGINEER
I GAVE A REVIEW OF THE STUDIO ONE PRO DEMO AS AWSOME. I BOUGHT STUDIO ONE PRO IN FEBRUARY 2010 AND IT WAS ALL THAT I EXPECTED IT TO BE. I JUST DOWNLOADED AND INSTALLED THE 1.5 UPDATE PATCH. I AM CONVI... read more [+]NCED THAT STUDIO ONE PRO WILL BE ON THE MARKET FOR A LONG TIME AND I'M SURE IT WILL BECOME AN INDUSTRY STANDARD. THE UPDATE PATCH MAKES IT A NEW PRODUCT ALL TOGETHER. I'M IMPRESSED WITH PRESONOUS'S DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT TO IT'S PRODUCTS AND IT 'S CUSTOMERS. GOOD JOB PRESONOUS. close [-]
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