Record, produce, mix, master, and perform all from a single, intuitive application. Designed with ease of use at its core, Studio One® 5 is your creative partner from studio to stage. Studio One is driven by tools that enhance your creativity without getting in the way; we pioneered its drag-and-drop workflow that continues to be imitated elsewhere. Laborious tasks that take five steps in other DAWs usually only take... One. A popular example: you can convert MIDI to audio and back with a simple drag-and-drop.

The only DAW that lets you compose, record, produce, mix, master, and perform all from a single, intuitive application

NEW! Available standalone or as part of the PreSonus Sphere membership

NEW! Score View for traditional notation

NEW! Perform live with Studio One! Use your recorded assets to bring your studio sound to the live show; play virtual amps live; sequence and re-arrange your Setlist all from the new Show Page

NEW! Completely redesigned Native Effects plugin suite

NEW! MPE/Poly Pressure support for advanced MIDI instruments

NEW! MTC/MMC synchronization

Intuitive single-window work environment with quick and easy drag-and-drop functionality and multi-touch support.

Unlimited audio and instrument tracks, advanced automation features, virtual instruments, buses, and FX channels

Console Shaper emulates the sound of an analog console with control overdrive, noise, and even true channel crosstalk, thanks to Mix Engine FX’s cross-channel processing

Chord Track manipulates audio and note data of any or all tracks for Harmonic Editing and song prototyping

Five powerful virtual instruments including: Impact XT drum sampler; Presence XT virtual sample-player; Mai Tai polyphonic analog modeling synthesizer; Mojito monophonic subtractive synthesizer; and Sample One XT live sampler and sample editor

Patterns allow for intuitive drum and melody composition via familiar drum machine/step-sequencer style UI

1. Score Printing

Version 5.1 adds score printing to Studio One Professional. Scores and individual parts can now be printed directly from Studio One! Printing is supported for any number of tracks, from single instruments to full orchestral arrangements. Several other composition enhancements along with Score Printing are featured in this video:

2. Retrospective Recording

Never miss another great song idea again! Retrospective Recording captures everything you play on your keyboard or controller—even without hitting record! It works invisibly in the background on a track-by-track basis.

3. Powerful Track/Channel search and filter options

Managing large projects with a huge track and channel count is now faster and easier than ever with the addition of powerful search and filter options.

4. Bypass option for Clip Gain Envelopes

Clip Gain Envelops can now be bypassed from the Event context menu and the Event Inspector, making it quick and easy to compare the result of your Gain Envelopes without losing any of your adjustments.

5. Combined Time/Key Signature Track

The Score View will reflect any Key Signature changes added to Studio One’s new Signature Track. These will also transfer to Notion when sending a score between applications.

6. Secondary Timeline Ruler option

View minutes:seconds with bars and beats at the same time! A must for film composers.

7. Global Tracks in Editors

Global Tracks can now be displayed inside Editors and used as guides when editing audio or Note Events in Piano View and Drum View.

8. External Instruments support on Show Page

External MIDI instruments are now supported using Virtual Instrument Players. Patches can include program change and bank change messages so you can control an entire MIDI rig from your Show!

9. Ampire/Pedalboard Update

Drag and drop stompbox settings between Ampire and Pedalboard, so go ahead and steal that Big Fuzz tone from your guitarist… we won’t tell!

10. TONS of Extended Integration with ATOM controller

Note Events in the Pattern Editor are now colorized to match the pad colors in Impact, ATOM and ATOM SQ, so you always know which sound is being triggered and which pad is controlling it. And there’s a new library of inspirational drum patterns and variations patterns in Musicloops format for easy, drag-and-drop saving and export.

Too much to list!

Studio One 5.1 is a significant update and is free to owners of Studio One 5 Artist and Professional. Click here for the full change log, and click "Check for Updates” in Studio One’s start page to get all these new features now!

v5.3.0 New features and improvements:

Musical Symbols playback with Sound Variations

MIDI channel support for Sound Variations

ZIP conversion option for documents including upload to PreSonus Sphere

Chord Track chords to Note Events conversion

Drag & Drop support for Presets and FX Chains on Show Page

Seamless Patch changes on Show Page

Note Controller support for VST3 instruments via VST Note Expression and MPE

Updated manuals in English and Japanese

Updated PreSonus audio interface templates

The following issues have been fixed:

[ATOM SQ] Device script sends Sustain message 2 times

[ATOM SQ] Japanese characters result in blank display cells

[Drum Editor] Transform tool misses last note of a given selection

[Impact XT] Eco Filter causing high level noise with certain samples

[Note Editor] "Fill with notes" in custom pitch range adds unwanted notes outside the range

[Note Editor] In certain situations, "Length / Legato + Overlap Correction" creates unwanted note length

[Note FX] Arpeggiator not triggering with note values less than 1 beat

[Pro EQ²] 12th octave spectrum meter is incorrect

[Pro EQ²] Potential crash when using LowCut at 48dB/Oct

[Project Page] Undo history doesn't call out parameters and values

[Score Editor] "Fill with rests” causes the score to be drawn incorrectly

[Score Editor] Potential crash when repeatedly executing enharmonic respelling tool

[Show Page] "Add Player" commands disabled depending on workspace focus

[Show Page] Selecting a patch containing a splitter creates a phantom splitter

[Sound Variations] "Find and Apply Variation" during recording won't record already activated variation

[Sound Variations] Momentary Sound Variations can be stacked but only the one added last is visible

[Sound Variations] When applying momentary sound variations to a note, the same (momentary) variation can be added several times

[Waves Plug-ins] Graphics may become sluggish when hovering the mouse pointer above plug-in controls

[Windows] Cannot save song when it's selected in the browser

[Windows] Incorrect resizing when moving plug-in window from regular to HiDPI display w/ certain plug-ins

Actions are not aimed at multiple selected events/parts after shift+deselect

Automation follows events may create redundant nodes

Buses jump out of folders in Console when editing their automation

Collapsing a Multi Instrument inside a folder hides Multi Instrument

Commands inside a macro can change behavior if keyboard shortcuts use modifier keys

Compare button does not toggle with 3rd party plugins

Drag & Drop from Steinberg Backbone VSTi not working

VST3 compatibility improvements

Editing an automation curve might show unwanted behavior

"Follow Chords”, "Play Overlaps" and Tune Mode doesn't copy over when executing 'Duplicate Track Complete"

Marker list is not shown in Studio One Remote

Mouse wheel is inverted on chord track inspector octave field

Moving an External Instrument Track from one Bus Folder to another loses the Input assignment of its Aux Channel

Outputs to bus reset to Main when folder track is removed

Play Overlaps checkbox doesn't get copied over to new track when using "duplicate track complete"

Potential crash when triggering "Zoom Selected Track" after mixer scene change

Range Select+Copy pastes range at incorrect destination when there is automation data

Renaming audio files fails w/ error message "file is in use" in certain cases

"Show in Context” does not work for effects on browser home page

Small 3rd-party plug-in window is not centered

Tone Generator pops in certain situations

"Transform To Audio” changes the track's Tempo & Timestretch settings to "default"

Team RET Note: (v5.3.0)

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