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Studio One 4—What’s New


05/08/18

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 re-born 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 re-arranging 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’s 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.

Find out how this Studio One exclusive will change how you write music.

Far more than just a simple chord track for note data, Studio One 4’s Chord
Track works with Instrument Tracks (and draft audio tracks) for fast, efficient,
multi-dimensional Chord Track arranging and transpositions. It’s the ideal tool for
songwriting and “prototyping” music: modulate easily to different keys, try out
chord progression variations, even experiment with the unexpected to break free
of creative blocks. Harmonic Editing gives you freedom for trying out harmonies,
transpositions, and chord progressions.

An ingenious Chord Selector makes it easy to experiment with new chord


patterns and ideas, and you can change chords in real time from an external
MIDI controller to try out chord progressions on the fly. Transfer chord data from
a track to the Chord Track—which automatically detects the chords you played—
or from the Chord Track to other tracks, all with a simplified, intuitive workflow.

Harmonic Editing is part of Studio One’s ongoing commitment to streamline the


songwriting and music creation process. Coupled with the Arranger track that
makes it easy to move sections of songs around, and Scratchpads for trying out
new ideas independently of your existing work, Studio One is now the most
flexible program ever for testing out new song ideas. And for collaboration with
other musicians, Studio One’s improved integration with Notion 6.4 simplifies
printing in standard music notation with the new “Create Lead Sheet” option.

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.

Discover how Impact XT redefines pad-oriented instruments


With today’s loop- and beat-oriented music, it’s not just enough to have a matrix
of pads that triggers samples—so Impact XT remakes Impact into a complete
production environment. With 8 pad banks, 32 outputs, and the ability to launch
loops with beat quantization and time-stretching, Impact XT is like a program
within a program. What’s more, deep integration with Studio One allows for
features like auto-populating Patterns with Impact XT instruments so you don’t
need to spend time mapping pads to sounds.

The features don’t stop there. There’s a new filter, with a clipping mode as well
as drive and punch controls for extra sonic flexibility. Normalize, reverse, and
transpose samples over an 8-octave range. Stack samples on pads; drag them
from one pad to another (including simultaneous dragging of multiple samples),
auto-slice on sample import, and more—there’s even a new look and feel with
color themes and pad color options.

The bottom line: for building up beat-oriented arrangements, you can do


everything you need within Impact XT—and then build on those beats with
conventional linear tracks. Studio One 4 truly delivers the best of both worlds.

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.

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 de-construct 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, but also warp and de-construct them
into entirely new creative realms.

Explore this exciting new instrument that increases your sonic


possibilities.

Sample One XT is a true sampler, not just a sample playback device. You can
crossfade and trim samples, slice samples automatically with adjustable gate,
snap to zero, choose from three different sample loop modes, stretch timing to
match song tempo, slice and reverse waveforms, normalize, and more. What’s
more, you can drag and drop samples between Sample One XT and Impact XT,
making it easier than ever to record/sample sounds and use them with Impact XT
(and vice-versa).

Of course there’s more to a sampler than sampling, and Sample One XT has the
synthesis elements covered too. Graphical envelopes now have adjustable
attack, decay, and release curve shapes. The new filter has the same punch,
drive, and clip options as Impact XT. Apply synth envelopes to control dynamics
with graphical editing. And, there’s a complete effects section with modulation,
delay, reverb, gater, EQ, distortion, and panning.

Sample One XT also makes it easier to exchange samples with instruments like
Presence XT. Drag and drop samples among instruments, and save/load
instruments using the .soundx sampler file format or the open .multisample
format developed jointly with Bitwig.

Sampling is a crucial part of today’s modern song creation process, and the
foundation for beats and loops. Now you have an exceptional roster of sampling
capabilities integrated tightly inside Studio One 4.

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 re-invent
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.

Studio One and the Pattern advantage

Step sequencing traditionally meant opening a sequencer within a sequencer,


but Patterns make sequences a seamless part of the Studio One experience.
Patterns live inside tracks, where you can edit them with the same ease as with
the note event and audio editors. What’s more, Patterns can have an unlimited
number of variations that you can name, copy, re-order, and open directly from
the Arrangement—you don’t even need to open the Pattern Editor.

There are also many more expressive possibilities than typical step sequencers.
Per-step options include velocity editing, 10 levels of repeat for “stutter” effects, a
probability algorithm that adds variety by selectively dropping out notes, and
even per-step automation for all automatable parameters. Best of all, you can
add lanes for all these parameters and play them in real time, which gives
instrument-like qualities. And when you want your pattern to repeat, drag the end
to duplicate the Pattern as many times as you want—even a track’s full duration.

The final touch is a brand new library of inspirational Musicloops with drum
Patterns and Variations—just loading these will often be enough to get your
creativity flowing.

Switch with ease.

We get it...a lot of you are switching from other programs to Studio One. To make the
process easier, Studio One 4 now supports AAF (Advanced Authoring Format) for data
exchange with Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, and others.

Ready for ARA 2.0.

PreSonus worked with Celemony on the original Audio Random Access (ARA) spec
that allows for seamless integration with Melodyne. ARA 2.0 is coming, and is already
available to third-party plug-in developers so they can access the Chord Track and Key
Signature data used in Harmonic Editing (expect a free Melodyne update with Chord
Track support this summer. ARA 2.0 can even access data from multiple tracks at once
so once again, Studio One leads the industry in implementing technology that serves
the program’s musicality.

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