Presonus Studio One 4 Professional Recording Software

Presonus Studio One 4 Professional Recording Software

Overview:

The new Studio One is all about you.
Studio One 4 is a major update that combines the best of the traditional recording studio model with the modern methods of creating beat- and groove-oriented music. Thanks to flexible tools designed for creative musicians, Studio One 4 doesn’t dictate how you work—you do. You truly can work better, faster.

The new Chord Track with Harmonic Editing makes it easy to prototype songs, thanks to flexible transposition, key modulation, and chord substitution for note data and audio. The Impact drum module has been reborn as Impact XT, where you can create complete arrangements in a highly developed, sophisticated production environment. Patterns bring the concept of step sequencing into the 21st century with the fastest way yet to come up with drum and percussion parts. Sample One XT turns Sample One into not just a true sampler that can record data from anywhere within the program, but a powerhouse for slicing, dicing, and rearranging loops and beats.

With Studio One 4, you create music on your terms: Create without boundaries, produce without limits.

Streamline music creation with Harmonic Editing
This Studio One breakthrough redefines arranging. Based on a Chord Track that alters audio as well as note data, it has never been easier to prototype songs, try out new ideas, and smash creative blocks. What would it sound like if you substituted a more harmonically rich chord for an existing one? Or have older parts to follow a new, better chord progression you just came up with thanks to inspiration from harmonic editing? Now it’s easy to find out… and much more.

Detect chords automatically
When you come up with an inspired chord progression, you needn’t put your creativity on hold while you figure out what you played in order to add new parts. Built-in chord detection extracts chords from audio or instrument tracks; simply drag a Part to the Chord Track to create a reference for Harmonic Editing.

Impact XT: The complete production environment
Impact was a useful, flexible drum module—but Impact XT, which adds over 20 new and highly requested features, transforms Impact into a complete production environment for beats and loops. Load Parts into pads, then launch with beat quantization and real-time stretching. Don’t waste time mapping notes to drums: Impact XT auto-populates Studio One 4’s new Patterns with instruments for instant beat creation. Stack samples on pads, auto-slice samples on import, reverse sample playback, load up to eight banks, color-code parts, edit pads or the samples themselves—that’s just a fraction of what Impact XT now brings to your music. And, it’s fully backward-compatible with the original Impact.

Sample One XT goes (way) beyond sample playback
Sample One XT has expanded from sample playback into a sampling powerhouse. Sample, auto-slice, stretch, process, trigger, and deconstruct audio (sampled from inputs, buses, outputs, instruments, or tracks, as well as import/export) for breathtaking freedom in constructing powerful new performances and beats.

Sample One XT includes all the features you expect from a true sampler and also expands the synthesis-type options that can modify those samples. Sample One XT isn’t just a way to sample and play back sounds; it's also a way to warp and deconstruct them into entirely new creative realms.

Accelerated drum editing.
To go along with a world-class drum instrument, there’s an innovative, streamlined Drum Editor to edit drum parts as fast as you can think. Add that to the hundreds of pre-configured pitch name and mapping scripts available for free from PreSonus Exchange, and the new Drum Editor is like an accelerator for drum editing.

Patterns bring step sequencing into the 21st century.
The step sequencer has served us well for over half a century, but it’s time to reinvent step sequencing as a seamless, fast, fun part of making music. Patterns offer tight integration with instrument parts, automation, and Impact XT, along with variable sequence lengths and the ability to do melodies as well as drums. Patterns can even live side-by-side with conventional instrument parts on the same track—no need for separate tracks or plug-ins.

Features:
Arrangement / Editing

• Chord Track
• Real-time chord reharmonization of audio and instrument tracks
• Intuitive Chord Selector
• Automatic chord detection
• Real-time chord input from MIDI device
• Song key signature with detection
• Chord transpose
• ARA 2 support
• Expanded “Send to Notion” option for lead sheet creation
• Ripple edit mode
• Relative bar offset for songs
• “Remove gaps” for Events

Virtual Instruments – Impact XT

• New look and feel
• 8 pad banks
• 32 outputs (16 stereo, 16 mono)
• Color option for pads
• New 24 dB zero-delay
• Feedback filter
• Filter drive and punch controls
• Filter "soft" (clipping) mode
• Pad and individual sample editing
• New stack mode for layering samples on a pad
• Real-time time-stretching (follow song tempo)
• Trigger quantization
• Sample choke with 32 choke groups
• Reverse sample playback
• Sample level normalization
• Increased pitch envelope range (± 48 semitones or 8 octaves)
• Improved sample navigation
• Pad Follow mode for remote navigation
• Drag-and-drop pad swapping
• Drag-and-drop multiple samples at once
• Optional auto-slicing on sample import (shift)
• “Send to new Impact” shortcut in audio context menu
• Drag-and-drop sample import from Sample One XT and Presence XT
• Import and export of multisample files and ".soundx" containers
• Eight user-selectable color themes

Virtual Instruments – Sample One XT

• New look and feel
• Record page with live sampling
• Samples from any hardware input, send, output, other instrument
• Auto-slicing mode creates new samples automatically with adjustable gate
• Global and individual (sample) edit modes
• FX section: modulation, delay, reverb, gater, EQ, distortion, pan
• Expandable keyboard
• Real-time time-stretching (follow song tempo)
• Sample snap to zero crossing
• Sample crossfade
• Waveform slicing option
• Sample trim option
• Sample sustain, release, and ping-pong loop modes
• Graphical envelopes with adjustable attack, decay, release curve shapes
• Increased pitch envelope range (±48 semitones or 8 octaves)
• Alternative trigger modes: normal, one-shot, toggle
• Visual play cursor in waveform view
• Sample reverse playback
• Sample level normalization
• New 24 dB zero-delay feedback filter
• Filter drive and punch controls
• Filter "soft" (clipping) mode
• LFO random (sample+hold) mode
• Master volume control
• Adjustable voice limit
• Import and export of multisample files and ".soundx" containers
• Drag-and-drop export to Impact XT
• Eight user-selectable color themes

Virtual Instruments – Presence XT Editor

• Sample snap to zero crossing
• Reverse playback option
• 1,000 choke groups

Music Editor

• Drum Editor
• Drum and Melodic Patterns and Variations
• Patterns saved in Musicloop
• Automatic mapping (Impact XT)
• Alternate note coloring schemes
• Sync option for editors
• “Select notes…” options
• New or improved note event options (Humanize, Length, Velocity, Delete Notes)
• Multiple macro toolbars (page selection)
• Improved multi-editing
• Preserve and restore zoom states

Import / Export

• AAF import / export (supports Pro Tools, Logic, Nuendo, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, and others)
• Import song data

User Interface

• Alternative “light” color scheme
• Additional appearance presets
• Updated mix console design
• Track / Channel Notepads
• Content
• New Sound Set “Impact XT Kits and Sounds” (1.8 GB)
• Other
• External plug-in scanner (VST2, VST3)
• MP3 encoding in all versions

Upgrade From Artist

Upgrade to Studio One 4 Professional from any version of Studio One Artist
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
Pristine sound quality with native 64-bit resolution and support for up to 384 kHz audio
Chord Track manipulates audio and note data of any or all tracks for Harmonic Editing and song prototyping
Incredible new virtual instruments: Impact XT and SampleOne XT for powerful beat or loop-based composition, live sampling, and robust sample editing
Patterns allow for intuitive drum and melody composition via familiar drum machine/sequencer style UI
AAF Song data import for easy song/session exchange with other applications for collaboration (Pro Tools,. Logic, Nuendo, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, and more)
Studio One 4 operates on 64-bit operating systems only.

Upgrade to Studio One 4 Professional from any version of Studio One Artist!
There’s a very good reason why so many musicians have switched to Studio One from older, more rigid programs. Built on a modern foundation that’s not bogged down by legacy code, Studio One provides an efficient, creative companion from initial inspiration to final master. Its efficient, single-screen interface houses an unlimited number of tracks, intuitive editing tools, advanced virtual instruments, mastering, and video player—you spend your time creating music, not wondering what to click next. The 64-bit double-precision mix engine is state of the art, while the smooth, analog quality of the virtual instruments comes from proprietary techniques that provide much higher controller resolution. That’s why Studio One just plain sounds better.

The reason why Studio One resonates with musicians is simple: PreSonus listens. Many new features in Version 4 are the direct result of user feedback, including AAF import/export so users can bring song data from their old DAW into Studio One. Add the most flexible arranging tools of any music program, full integration with Notion for superior notation, over 20 GB of carefully curated content, analog console emulation, advanced step sequencing, unified hardware control with the FaderPort series of hands-on controllers, and much more—it’s no wonder that Studio One continues to gain new followers every day.

Create Without Boundaries • Produce Without Limits
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
Pristine sound quality with native 64-bit resolution and support for up to 384 kHz audio

• Chord Track manipulates audio and note data of any or all tracks for easy chordal experimentation and song prototyping
• Incredible new virtual instruments: Impact XT and SampleOne XT for powerful beat or loop-based composition, live sampling, and robust sample editing
• Patterns allow for intuitive drum and melody composition via familiar drum machine/sequencer style UI
• AAF support for easy song/session exchange with other applications for collaboration (Pro Tools,. Logic, Nuendo, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, and more)
• Arranger Track with innovative Scratch Pads
• Build unique sounds with Multi-Instrument and Extended FX Chains
• Presence XT sampler (14 GB library included) and Mai Tai polyphonic analog modeling synth with character morphing and modulation matrix
• Innovative Mix Engine FX process every channel routed through a bus individually at the source and at their summing point, fundamentally altering the sonic characteristics in ways that have never before been possible in a DAW
• Console Shaper, the first Mix Engine FX, emulates the sound of an analog console with control overdrive, noise, and even true channel crosstalk
• VCA Faders that act as group faders for any number of tracks
• Integrated Melodyne Essentials 4 pitch and timing editor (a $99 USD value)
• Integrated online Cloud Services include the PreSonus Shop, PreSonus Exchange, and our unique bi-directional SoundCloud integration
• Integrated mastering suite with automatic mix updating, DDP, Redbook CD burning, and digital release
• 37 Native Effects, 5 virtual instruments, 4 Note FX, plus AU, VST2, VST3, and ReWire support
• Use Pro Tools, Cubase, Sonar, and Logic shortcut key commands or create your own
• Compatible with ASIO-, Windows Audio-, and Core Audio-compliant audio interfaces

Crossgrade From Other DAW

If you own an existing DAW but would like to switch over to the most intuitive recording software on the planet, the Studio One Crossgrade was created just for you. All you need to do is provide proof of ownership for the other DAW, such as original purchase receipt, UPC code (bar code on the outside of the box), or screenshot of your user account with the other DAW showing the software registered to your name. Electronic receipts are acceptable.

• 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
• Pristine sound quality with native 64-bit resolution and support for up to 384 kHz audio
• Chord Track manipulates audio and note data of any or all tracks for Harmonic Editing and song prototyping
• Incredible new virtual instruments: Impact XT and SampleOne XT for powerful beat or loop-based composition, live sampling, and robust sample editing
• Patterns allow for intuitive drum and melody composition via familiar drum machine/sequencer style UI
• AAF support for easy song/session exchange with other applications for collaboration (Pro Tools, Logic, Nuendo, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, and more)

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