Curious....are you guys that are choosing Studio One over Cubase....

doing so because of price? Just curious..

Mostly just my opinion based off thepast few days of research iv conducted and the little experience I've had with Cubase. From my research, Cubase focused a bit more on the Midi side (I could be wrong, but just what I've seen) where as i deal mostly with Audio mixing/mastering so i use almost no Midi except for the occasional vocoder or to trigger vocal scatters/stutters etc... which i usually do manually anyways. Studio one has Melodyne integrated through ARA like Sonar, and aux tracks/busses are similar, so that feels a bit more like home. The lay out as far as the windows and style of the dockings are very similar to Sonar and can be undocked/moved etc... I seriously considered Cubase for a few days, especially since I own Wavelab. Cubase and Wavelab work very well together as they can share projects for different aspects of the mixing process.
 
So in summary, its a great price and it feels much like home in Sonar although I still miss little details that Sonar has that just make it smoother such as the smart tool which made it easy to navigate pretty much everything. Just my 2 cents.

thanks...I'm leaning toward Cubase because of having to write to picture, and it seems a little better in handling video
I like the new sampler track too. But I hate the Ilicense USB thingy!

I am getting both Cubase and Studio one.
But Cubase will be my primary DAW.

Currently I do not use Soft Synth (never) and I think Cubase will integrate better with my hardware devices especially given majority of my sound sources are Yamaha, which own Steinberg.

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I used to have Cubase (VST 5.1-Cubase 3 or 2 - I forget).  It was unwieldy and had very cluttered interface.  But the thing that bugged me the most was the forum participants.  I was treated like an idiot for asking questions - usually about stability and locking up all the time.  And there was no customer support back then.  
 
The guys that were the architects behind Cubase wrote the code for Studio One.  I think they tried to get rid of bloat and make the DAW simpler.  
 
I bought Studio One 1 when it was released as I was having some issues with Sonar (don't recall), but found it to be immature.  I have upgraded the 1-2 and recently the 2-3 for Studio One.  It has come a long way.  
 
I know I am missing the serious MIDI editing capabilities of Sonar and Cubase.  I hope they develop more tools.  I have a couple of awesome vintage synths (memorymoog, waldorf wave and a decidedly non-MIDI Synthi AKS).  Plus I have the DSI OB6.  I want to be able to record SYSEX at some point.  
 
But I mainly use some drum program (AD2, SSD, Kontakt), some vintage keys (Arturia gets a lot of use) and track guitars, bass and vocals.  For that, SO3 is excellent.  

I went with Studio one. I have become ARA dependent in Sonar. So, Studio One seemed the easier fit. cubase came in second, though I never really gave mixcraft or anyone else a chance.

No ..... I make my living with this stuff - so that would not be a factor for me ...

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Did you decide to marry your wife because she paid for dinner on your first date?

As a matter of fact, yes.  And I've been paying for it ever since.

I've had S1 pro since ver 1. I actually won a copy at a PreSonus demonstration back in 2009, and have kept it upgraded.  For years I used it for cross Mac/PC compatibility with the house of worship stuff I do where both churches I worked with were all Mac shops.  But my main work was always on Sonar.
 
I have gone to Cubase, Studio One is very flashy, has some good workflow, but every time I use it I feel like I run into a brick wall.  As discussed on other threads, the sound in Studio One sounds very processed and digital.  It's like listing to a Line 6 spider amp (no offense to the Line-6 fans).  The stock plugins have a nice look as far as the UI, but the sound is so lacking.  The Sonitus stuff just blows it all away.
 
Cubase is a mature professional product and when I saw the price point I jumped on it.  Yes the UI is a little clunky and it feels like working with Office 2003, with all the top menu navigation.  However the channel strip in Cubase feels a lot like working with pro channel and it sound great.
 
Workflow Studio One definitely has an edge, but it's so far behind what Sonar had.  The lack of track templates alone slows down the work flow, and the drag and drop stuff is nice, but having a dedicated channel strip there and ready to use is invaluable.  The "channel strip" in S1 is very limited and is not on the channel by default like Sonar and Cubase, you have to insert it into the FX bin, it also sounds very digitized.
 
I will continue to use S1 for certain projects and collaborations but Cubase will be my main DAW.
 

Don't have an elicenser (to try the demo), don't want to have to use one: from what I've read, it's near impossible to get your software working again without buying another elicenser and software license should it malfunction due to no fault of your own.
 
Liked the idea of getting a faderport controller, and heard they work really well with Studio One (being made from the same company)

Tried Cubase and thought it had a huge learning curve. So I choose to go with S1, mostly record audio anyway except that I use some VSTi for drums and keyboard occasionally.

Answering the question from the other side. If I did mostly audio / tracking real instruments I would have gone for Studio One, the similarities to Sonar and the interface would have driven that decision, not the price. But 90% of what I do is MIDI so Cubase seems to be the best choice. The learning curve will be steeper for sure but there are a lot of features I want to get to grips with like the chord track which I hoped would have been added to Sonar at some stage.
 
Where price cam in was I may have gone for the Artist version of Cubase but the cross-grade made it a similar price to Pro, so no contest.

I went with Studio One because:
- Cubase requires a dongle. This simply doesn't not work for me as I move between multiple computers at multiple locations and am not interested in carrying a dongle around in my pocket, losing it, forgetting it, breaking it, etc.. Studio One allows five simultaneous activations and requires no dongle. 
- I've played around a bit with the free version of Studio One the past couple of years so I have some passing familiarity with it. As far as I know, Cubase has no free version or demo so all I know about the feel of the interface is what I can see in YouTube videos. 
- Studio One has been getting a lot of buzz the past few years -- more so than most other DAWs from what I've seen. Also, Studio One was relatively recently built from the ground up so has a fresher foundation. This all makes me think Studio One has a brighter future in terms of growth of what the DAW offers.
 

Because of price? Yep, important part of my decision.
Studio One 3 Pro looks great and costs $125 (and no dongle).