PreSonus Studio One 4 Professional 4.5.3

Instantly familiar – yet nothing feels like it. Studio One 3 contains everything you’d expect from a modern digital audio powerhouse. Once you touch its fast, flow-oriented, drag-and-drop interface, you’ll realize Studio One 3 was built by creative people for creative music production.

At every step of the musical process, you’ll spend your time creating music instead of fighting a bloated interface. And the sound quality? Well, simply put, it’s unparalleled. In fact, the most common comments from musicians, producers and engineers who have switched to Studio One are “I can just get things done faster” and “Studio One just sounds better.” Let’s find out why.

Start your engines.

The Start page is your home base, where you access recent Songs and Projects or start new ones, adjust hardware settings, check in on your online progress, stay in touch with the latest Studio One news, and develop new skills through demos and tutorials.

Bringing it all together.

The Song page is where the magic happens. Everything you need is dynamically laid when and where you need it, without juggling multiple windows. Here you’ll find your Arrange view, video track, track Inspectors, edit view, mix view, and browser.

Drag-and-Drop: intuitive, fast, convenient.

Creating backing tracks that automatically sync to your song tempo, enriching an arrangement, loading an Instrument, effect or sample content, and more are easy with Studio One’s updated browser, which offers keyword-based musical search, plug-in thumbnails, and nearly 10,000 audio and music loops in the Professional version. Plus, the browser links to the PreSonus online marketplace and to Exchange for access to more add ons, and content from other Studio One users.

Build arrangements—fast.

Studio One Professional’s new Arranger Track provides rapid and intuitive song rearranging—even with large projects. Just drag sections to a different place in the Arranger Track or Track Inspector, and the entire arrangement updates instantly.

Scratch Pads—the freedom to experiment.

Working hand-in-hand with the Arranger Track, the new Scratch Pads are an innovation so simple, yet so powerful, you’ll wonder why it took years to invent them. Scratch Pads provide a powerful and easy way to experiment with different arrangements or versions of a section, without jeopardizing your existing work and hassling with saving copies and countless undos. Simply drag sections, content, and events into the Scratch Pad, experiment away, and drag it back when you’re done. And you get unlimited Scratch Pads that can all be saved inside your Studio One Song file.

No limits on creativity—or sound quality.

Studio One places no limits on your creativity. You have unlimited Audio and Instrument Tracks, virtual instruments, buses, FX channels, and undo/redo. And with Studio One Professional’s 64-bit audio processing, you don’t have to worry about your mix degrading when you work with large projects and mix in the box.

Get truly inspiring and unique sounds.

Speaking of sound quality… in addition to 64-bit processing precision, Studio One version 3 features a new synthesis engine and two inspiring new instruments: the Mai Tai polyphonic analog modeling synth and the Presence XT sampler. With Studio One Professional, Presence XT includes a 14 GB sound library and the ability to open EXS, Giga, and Kontakt libraries.

Leave your sonic fingerprint.

Modern music has largely degraded to a flatland of repetitive presets. Turn on the radio, or listen to commercials, and we’re sure you can identify the sounds. Studio One version 3 changes all that and gives you tools to craft your own unique voice, including Multi Instrument, Extended FX Chains, and Note FX.

Capture the flow.

Capturing tracks in Studio One is fast and easy. Pre-record mode ensures you don’t miss a beat. When multitrack recording, you can add and arm tracks with sequential I/O assignments, route multiple MIDI devices to multiple instruments simultaneously, and give each performer their own click settings with a separate cue mix. To capture difficult parts, use Studio One’s Step Record mode or build your track by loop recording to individual track layers.

What’s New in PreSonus Studio One 4 Professional 4.5.3

Version 4.5.3 Release Notes (September 3, 2019):

MacOS Mojave (10.14) and Catalina (10.15) users: Please make sure that the plug-ins you’re using match Apple’s compatibility requirements before updating to Studio One 4.5.3. Incorrectly signed plug-ins will either be blacklisted by Studio One, or rejected by the operating system with this release.

New features and improvements:

• Support for Native Instruments’ Komplete Kontrol MkII series keyboards
• [macOS] Support for Apple Notarization service
• “Remove Plug-in Settings” function for Plug-in Manager
• Volume automation curve now compensates logarithmic fader curve
• “Select Notes” command is now applicable to muted notes
• Channel polarity switch is now excluded from grouping
• Added commands for “vertical zoom in/out fine”
• Dragging multiple Patterns to the browser is now supported
• Improved sidechain handling for VST2 Plug-ins
• Improved Chinese localization

The following issues have been fixed:

• [Mixer] Sends are hidden under certain conditions
• [Mixer] Side-chaining with Mix FX included will mute under certain conditions
• [Mixer] Lag on VCA fader adjustment
• [Scratch Pad] Wrong instrument part length when using step record
• [Scratch Pad] Lost focus when using “locate cursor” function
• [Scratch Pad] Loop range lost when dragged across arrangement border
• [Pattern Editor] Variation name cannot be edited from pattern editor toolbar
• [Audio Batch Converter] Crash on repairing sample rate with certain mp3 files
• Multi Instrument transform restore omits channel inserts
• Qwerty Keyboard device has wrong mapping in Swiss and Canadian French layout
• No input metering during record w/ tape style and disabled monitoring
• Crash on invoking “Insert Rest” command when not in Step Record mode
• When “snap” is disabled, “play selected range” won’t stop when playing small audio
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• Using ShiftS as keyboard shortcut for “Solo” triggers “Solo Safe” instead
• Random freezes on previewing MIDI files from the browser
• Softube Console 1 AU not properly unloaded on removal
• Altered metronome accent volume resets to default on relaunch
• Decimals missing in Export dialogs
• Instrument preset list and browser out of sync
• Chord track offset when chord doesn’t start at event start
• Certain MP3 files won’t import
• First notes missing on bounce in certain cases
• Short notes being dropped with large block sizes