Studio One 4 was designed with ease of use at its core. It seamlessly combines the time-tested and proven recording studio model with todays beat- and loop-oriented production process so you can bring musical ideas to sonic reality more quickly than ever before.An efficient, single-screen interface houses an unlimited number of tracks, intuitive editing tools, and advanced virtual instruments. Spend your precious time creating music instead of wondering what to click next. Studio One doesn't dictate how you work or what you work on.



Three creative paths, one goal.
Studio One is your creative companion from start to finish. The Start page provides what you need to kickstart your creative process open projects, set parameters, and check for updates and tips. From there, the Song page is all about recording, arranging, editing, and mixing your music with a complete set of virtual instruments, effects, and groundbreaking arrangement tools. Then, assemble and master your music in the Project page. Even better, the Project and Song pages are linked so if you need just that one little change in your master or stems, switch to the Song page, tweak, and mix back automatically to the Project. No other program accomplishes such an effortless transition as you move from the initial creative inspiration to the finished, mastered production.

Arranging at the speed of click.
Forget laborious transposition, cutting, pasting, and moving when arranging. With Scratch Pads to test out arrangements, an Arranger track that makes moving sections of songs around as easy as moving parts, and the groundbreaking Harmonic Editing the most flexible chord track implementation ever no other program can approach the ease of arranging and songwriting that Studio One 4 delivers.

Another Studio One first: Harmonic Editing.
Far more than just a simple chord track for note data, Studio One 4s Chord Track is a songwriters dream come true. Create and change chord progressions, try out chord substitutions, substitute rich chords for simple ones, even have older parts follow a new, better chord structure you came up with thanks to the inspiration Harmonic Editing can provide. This breakthrough, which works with instruments and even audio tracks, underscores Studio Ones commitment to streamline the songwriting and music creation process.

Detect chords automatically.
When you come up with an inspired chord progression, you need not 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.

Overcome creative blocks.
When you are stuck in a rut, let Studio One Professional be your creative partner. Use the ingenious Chord Selector to experiment easily with new chord patterns and ideas. Let Harmonic Editing spark new ideas. Change chords in real time from an external MIDI controller to try out chord progressions on the fly. Transfer chord data from an audio or instrument track to the Chord Track, or from the Chord Track to other tracks.

Printable notation thats truly noteworthy.
With just a few clicks and Notion 6.4 or higher, Harmonic Editing makes it easy to create great-looking, printable lead sheets.

MIDI and beyond MIDI.
Studio One works with all the standard MIDI gear you know and love, from controllers to tone modules. But once MIDI data arrives into Studio One, its converted to a high-resolution, 32-bit internal format. That means no zipper noise on instruments, smoother controller changes and pitch bends, more detailed automation, and other benefits when working in the Studio One environment. And if you need to drive external MIDI gear, you are covered there too Studio One translates its high-resolution format back into standard MIDI data if it needs to return to the outside world.

World-class instruments.
With its rich roster of native plug-ins, Studio One has earned its reputation as a complete production package and now our latest generation of virtual instruments, based on input from the Studio One community (thank you), deliver even more. Impact has been remade into Impact XT, a comprehensive beat and rhythm production environment. Sample One XT samples, slices, and dices to create great beats and realistic instrument sounds. These new instruments don't feel like separate plug-ins but like integrated and integral parts of music creation.

Impact XT: Heat up the beat.
Fully backward compatible with Impact, the XT version adds more than 20 new, highly requested features and improvements. You can even create complete arrangements in a single instance of Impact XT by launching loops that sync to your Song with real-time stretching, beat quantization, and synched start/stop.

Sample One XT: Because samplers should sample.
Sample One XT has expanded from sample playback into a sampling powerhouse. Sample, auto-slice, stretch, process, trigger, and deconstruct audio (sampled from inputs or imported from a track) for breathtaking freedom in constructing powerful new performances and beats.

Beat the clock.
Studio One 4 isn't just about including a world-class drum instrument but also integrating it with an innovative, streamlined Drum Editor to edit drum parts as fast as you can think. Along with hundreds of preconfigured pitch name and mapping scripts available for free from PreSonus Exchange, the new Drum Editor is like an accelerator for drum editing.

Patterns a giant step forward.
The step sequencer has served us well for over half a century; now its time for Studio Ones new Patterns to step into the future. Tight integration with instrument parts, automation, and Impact XT means that Patterns reinvent step sequencing as a seamless, fast, fun part of making music.

From dumb machine to drum machine and more.
Patterns transform step sequencing from mechanical repetition into a truly expressive addition to modern sequencing. Yes, Patterns are about drums but also melodies, integration with any instrument, step-based automation, variable sequence lengths (polyrhythms, anyone?), unlimited variations, and more.

Extra functions. No extra complications.
Impact XTs integration with Patterns will change how you think about drum programming because the combination makes beat creation fast, fun, and effortless. There no need for a separate plug-in or track type to do pattern-based sequencing because Patterns work side-by-side with conventional Instrument parts on the same track. You can choose, rename, copy, and reorder an unlimited number of Pattern variations from within the Arrangement you do not even need to open the Pattern Editor. And, there a new library of inspirational drum Patterns and Variations Patterns in the Musicloops format for easy, drag-and-drop saving and export.

Master mastering.
Studio One Professional is the only program that links songs and stems with finished, mixed Projects. Transfer mixes or mixed stems to the Project page for mastering but if you hear anything you need to change, simply jump back into the Song, make your tweaks, and then mix the revised version back automatically into the Project page to continue mastering. Whether for Red Book-compatible CD burning, digital publishing for streaming, creating DJ sets and playlists, or professional-level DDP import/export for duplicators, the Song page/Project page partnership makes it easy to obtain consistent levels and tonal balance with collections of songs.

Processors for the mastering process.
Sweeten your project and prepare it for prime time Studio One 4s professional mastering features include sophisticated equalization, limiting, industry-standard metering, spectrum analysis, and analytic plug-ins to help add the all-important final touches to your music. Apply processing to individual tracks, or the entire collection, to take your mixes to the next level.

Pick a format any format.
Prepare your tracks for streaming with data compressed, standard, or lossless files. AAF (Advanced Authoring Format) provides song/session exchange for those who have not switched to Studio One (yet). Open all video and audio formats your operating system supports. Enjoy better video performance with 64-bit video engines for macOS and Windows. Create disk images. Burn Red Book CDs. Import DDP files for editing, such as fixing ID tags or ISRC code errors, then export the corrected DDP file. Whether your musics final destination is online streaming or physical media, Studio One Professional has you covered.

Breaking News: ARA 2.0 is coming.
Deep support for the new Audio Random Access 2.0 spec opens Studio One 4s groundbreaking Harmonic Editing to other plug-in and virtual instrument developers (expect a free Melodyne update with Chord Track support later this year), and allows simultaneous editing of multiple tracks.

Release Notes:

New features and Improvements:

Recording and Mixing
Redesigned hardware controls (gain/polarity/48V) on mixer channels (for compatible PreSonus interfaces)
Input Mixer: software gain / polarity controls on every input
Software input gain / polarity controls on every channel, bus and FX channel
Extended grouping system with attributes (Volume, Pan, Mute/Solo, Inserts/Sends)
Groups definable as Edit- and/or Mix-Groups (with attributes)
Commands/shortcuts to suspend any group
Command to suspend all groups
Support for unlimited nested groups (groups within groups)
New Groups section in Track List and Channel List
Optional group name display on channels with Group assign and renaming options
Customizable Channel Components in Console
RMS/Peak metering option per channel
Global Pre-Fader Metering option
Quick-assign I/O routing for multiple selected channels
Quick-assign outputs in ascending order
Basic and Advanced Plug-in menu styles
Alternative (reverse) Sidechain routing
Copy Plug-ins with Sidechain routing

Arrangement and Editing
Lock Events (with position and editing options)
Lock Tracks option
Independent Quantize/Timebase/Snap options
Snap to Zero Crossings

Musical (MIDI) Editing
Chord Audition option in Chord Selector
Chord Audition option for chord events in Chord Track
User assignable Chord Audition sound
New Major/Minor Triad scales
Re-organized Musical Actions menu
Stretch multiple notes by dragging
Note Action: Apply Scale
Note Action: Distribute Notes
Note Action: Randomize Notes
Note Action: Quantize Notes
Note Action: Mirror Notes
Note Action: Repeat Notes to Part End
Note Action: Thin out Notes
Note Action: Fill with Notes

Workflow
Independent Macro Toolbars for Arrangement, Music Editor and Audio Editor
Macro Toolbar: custom menus
Macro Toolbar: direct macro editing
Macro Toolbar: Duplicate Macro command
Macro Toolbar: move to Group command
Impact XT: drag more than 16 samples or slices
Patterns: support for Quintuplets / Septuplets resolution
Improved swing timing for patterns with individual lanes resolution
Stem Export: quick drag>select tracks/channels
Stem Export: save selection when closing window
Song Data Import retains Disabled track state when importing
Fat Channel XT modules retain state when switching
Instrument list: disable all option
Instrument list: remove unused option
Store Presets with folder selection
Assignable F13-F24 keys
Recall any Marker with shortcut
One-step Audioloop export (drag&drop)

User Interface
Smooth audio waveforms (option)
Macro Toolbar icons update
Sample One XT / Impact XT: improved unit readouts Performance
Improved CPU performance with Multi Instruments
Improved CPU performance with Mai Tai, Sample One XT, Impact XT and Presence XT Hardware and Installation
I/O Setup: add multiple inputs or outputs
I/O Setup: re-order inputs / outputs with drag & drop
New Plug-in Manager with filters by format and vendor
Plug-in Manager: list and reset blacklisted plug-ins individually

Import / Export
Import / Export I/O Setups
Video Export option with multiple codec support (platform-dependent)
MP3 Export with variable bitrate
AAC support (Import / Export), including ALAC (Apple Lossless)
Mono option for Export Mixdown

Other
[VST3] Support for program pitch names and key switch API
[VST2] Host-specific extension to query key switches from plug-ins

The following issues have been fixed:
Text field may lose focus when search result is displayed
Artifacts with volume automation
Very short MP3 files cannot be imported
Macro toolbar presets get lost if multiple songs are closed in a certain order
Bounce in place inserts silence when there's an Open Air instance as EventFX
VCA automation offset incorrect
Click coordinate of pen is slightly off
Potential lockup when using "Follow Chord"
True Peak sometimes delivers wrong values
[MacOS] Random order in file lists generated from APFS volume
Mod wheel assigned to Sample One eco filter behaves unexpectedly
NoteFX remain active after rendering with Chorder
Track Transform does not retain VCA assignment
Track/channel colors lost on transform multi-out instruments
Some elements need more contrast in Light Theme
Some time-stretched events in Scratch Pad play back incorrectly
[Windows 7] Potential crash while applying Touch+Swipe on certain plug-ins
Typos in AudioBox 1818VSL I/O labels

System Requirements:
- Windows 7 (SP1 + platform update), Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 (64-bit only)
- Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon X2 processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X4 or better recommended) Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2 processor (Intel Core i3 or AMD Athlon X4 or better recommended)

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