On the left is a complete list of M-Audio MIDI keyboard “profiles” included with Studio One. So this was cool but then came the first “sad trombone” moment: Works like a charm through a standard Windows Audio in both Studio One and Ableton Live. For some reason(!) Reason still thinks that on Windows you can only record through an ASIO driver. I guess it’s possible to play with delay compensation in Reason and maybe improve my mileage but it feels like Studio One improved this for me right out of the box.Īdditional personal benefit is that I can record from my USB microphone into Studio One without going through hoops like I have to in Reason. I haven’t created any massive projects in Studio One yet, but I’ve definitely gone beyond the point where sound would either start glitching or instrument monitoring delay would become unbearable in Reason. This, in effect, lets you use a large processing buffer to handle heavy audio playback and effects processing tasks, while keeping latency low for audio input and virtual instrument monitoring. Under this system, the tasks of audio playback and monitoring of audio inputs and virtual instruments are handled as separate processes. Studio One features Audio Dropout Protection and an advanced Native Low-Latency Monitoring system. One of the first things that impressed me was this separation of general audio device settings and Processing settings. Let’s get to Studio One… Setup and Configuration Audio Setup But I’ll be covering them from Reason user’s perspective. Some of these things may be trivial for users of Studio One and maybe some other DAWs. But I wanted to capture my first impressions - things that impressed or didn’t impress me as a Reason user. I’m pretty sure I’ll have a more in depth opinion on it once I use it a bit longer. I’ve only been playing with the trial of Studio One 4.6 Professional for a week or so. I liked what I’ve seen in a couple of reviews/overviews and here we are. Then I somehow randomly stumbled on a review of PreSonus ioStation 24c which made me take a look at Studio One. I’m sorry but I’m not doing this in 2020. Then I noticed that you have to get a USB dongle in order to run it. I imagined Cubase as something archaic and rusty but when I started looking at it, it looked very modern, nice, and quite intuitive. This might seem silly but I think it’s important to like your tools so using them doesn’t feel like torture. FL Studio and Reaper just don’t appeal to me aesthetically. I’ve tried Pro Tools years ago and didn’t like it. Logic was dismissed right away as I’m on Windows. Also, it felt like I would want the Suite version (especially since they cleverly give you Suite as a trial) and that was €600 which I definitely wasn’t going to pay. The UI looked better in videos than in “real life” and overall somehow I gave up before I got even remotely comfortable with it. I jumped on board right away but somehow didn’t feel it. One of the first catalysts of this was when Ableton extended the trial of Live to 90 days. If something that I’m amazed at in Studio One is actually possible in Reason and I just don’t know about it, please, don’t be harsh and just enlighten me in a comment ) Why Studio One? I was resisting the urge for a while but then on an impulse decided to try and venture out.ĭisclaimer: while I’ve played with Reason on-and-off since version 1, I’m just a hobbyist and definitely not an expert. Now we are free to try other DAWs without abandoning our investments in Reason altogether. While this step created quite some controversy in Reason communities, it in a way released long-time Reason users from a relative lock-in. With the release of Reason 11 the company made it possible to use the whole Reason Rack - arguably it’s signature “feature” - as a VST/AU and now AAX plugin in pretty much any other DAW. I’m a hobbyist music maker and I always loved that Reason has everything in one package and if you don’t want to spend any extra money you can perfectly stay with the Standard package and create great music. I’ve used Reason for many many years even if in short bursts and with very long breaks.
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