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2018/01/16 00:15:07
Jeff Evans
Zo I am little busy right now but I will answer No 1 for you. Yes you can select all the clips on a given track. Then open the inspector (F4) Then look at that little window just above the Event FX section. Double click in there and it goes blank. Just insert the name there you want.  It won't transfer the track name automatically but any name in there will do. (track name if you want it of course) Then every clip on that track will have the same name.
2018/01/16 02:09:25
Zo
Thks Jeff yep i knew that , i was talking like in sonar the option to force name calling of clip of a giving track name (with clip number incrementation)

Just finishing a mix today , i reall feel the less optitimsed engine of S1 , basically 30 Console 1 are hitting 70 % on ssl 9000 in s1 perf versus 50 % in sonar , but the craziest thing is that was mixing and felt little strange about levels ..after 2 hours of mixing i've found that my whole gain satging was false thks to the "send" value in S1 being at defauklt "-6db" ...can't believe this ....so all my gainstage is fuked up as well as my mix ...

Please guyz tell me we can make those sends defualt at 0db in a audio.ini or some file we can edit .... :((((
2018/01/17 02:08:10
Zo
By the way , anybody is exeperiencing crash when closing the app ?  it is systematic ...
2018/01/17 03:48:52
musiccontinuum
I've been using Studio one for about 2 months and I'm not sold yet. Obviously, time is needed, but the workflow isn't aligning for me. Could be that I've been with Cakewalk (Twelve Tone) for 27 years. Also, S1 was solid, but it's been crashing in the last few days, which I know is rare for S1. To each their own, but the midi, the track information layout, I'm still clicking about 10 times to find what I actually need. And yep, I've watched the video's and read the help.
 
I'll still work on it, but I'm going to test Cubase. I tried it before and didn't care of it either. My biggest huddle is the keyboard shorts. I've never like the mouse since it's inception and live by short cuts. I've actually re-mapped W and R in S1 to match Sonar, but left everything else alone.
 
I can say that it's taking me twice as long to get a song composed, but that's not S1, or any DAW issue, but remapping of my head to a new DAW; and it's been a tough task.
 
I can say this, S1 forum is pretty good, but this forum still is top notch
2018/01/17 06:49:40
CakeAlexSHere
^^ Surely using another DAW will also have different shortcuts? Imho one of those things you just have to relearn. I have printouts of keyboards shortcuts next to me and it is clicking (eventually).

I thought about Cubase as well but then I remembered how much I don't like a bloated DAW with bugs. Much prefer slimline (even if I miss stuff) that has a policy of introducing new features mostly fully baked.
2018/01/17 09:46:28
Jeff Evans
I have got an Editors Keys QWERTY  keyboard especially designed for Studio One.  It is rather excellent.  Forget all your previous key commands and learn the Studio One commands.  Then the Editors Keys keyboard will work real nice for you.  When you are not sure you can just glance down and it is all there.
2018/01/17 10:36:14
igiwigi
CUBASE PRO 9.5
The way to go.
New learn curve but all slots into place after understanding new ways of working.
Rock solid up to now

2018/01/20 00:39:40
Blades
So far I'm really liking a lot of things about Studio One here.  The main things that are a miss for me are:
 
  • Sound on Sound Recording
  • Drum Maps
 
Aside from those, there actually MANY things that I'm preferring.  It seems generally more responsive, recognizes and uses most of midi devices/control surfaces better than Sonar did - and is easier to tweak than ACT ever was - EVEN with an Edirol PCR-800, which should have been FAR easier in Sonar than S1 because of manufacturer at the time, yet isn't.
 
Granted, I've been mostly getting things setup, playing around with proof of concept stuff, and haven't really gotten into a full song recording or mix yet, but I like a lot of what I've seen.  So much so that I purchased with the Sonar Crossgrade pricing just before the end of the year.
 
  • There is Less stuff on screen in many cases, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
  • The Prochannel never really enamored me because it always felt like the modules were all integrated into one thing, but they were all so small (except for the EQ) that they felt limiting.  In S1, the Fatchannel takes care of many of the the things I typically used the ProChannel for anyway.  I would usually have a Reverb on a bus, so no real point to the Breverb and the Comp, EQ, Limiter and Gate cover the normal things I would expect in a channel strip.  But I really only need that strip on SOME things, anyway.  And it's not like you couldn't just put it in your template anyway.  And it takes like two seconds to drag it onto a track.
  • There seem to be a LOT of Sonar bugs from days gone by and many "removed" features in the X1,2,3,Plat series.  I liked the IDEA of what they were trying to do, I just feel like they missed the mark with the whole thing.
  • Being a "web guy" I thought I would really dig into the Theme thing, but it was so complex and convokuted to get around, it was just a huge waste of time for me to try to use it.  I think that S1 could use a little attention in the GUI side of the house, but it's not like it's ugly or in-adjustable, and I have found much of the simplicity of the display, while still being modern, flat, and just usable to be a good step in the right direction.
  • MACROS!  OMG.  There are a LOT of things that you can do with Macros in S1, I've found.  Even just some simple things, but there are already so many in place, and they are drag and drop to create.  Create a combination of commands to be executed, assign to a KB command, and Bang you just modified default behavior.  I got my Contour Shuttle Pro working for "shuttling" from beat to beat instead of measure to measure in S1 pretty quickly using macros, where in Sonar it was a weird and fiddly thing to do with CAL scripting - and I come from a development background.  The Macros are really cool.
I'm sure I will uncover many more things that I don't like, but I'm trying to "move on" and I haven't opened Sonar in a while - once just to make a video of what exactly sound on sound is for the S1 people to understand.  I enjoy change, and as a hobbyist, it's not really affecting my line of business is any way, but even in my actual business life, I'm pretty open to change of the systems I use on a daily basis to get my job done, within reason or at least with purpose.
 
Kind of a longer post than I expected, but there are just a FEW of my thoughts.  I will likely write a Blog about this experience.
2018/01/20 01:35:57
Resonant Serpent
Drum maps in Studio One are called Pitch Maps.
 
https://support.presonus....-presets-in-Studio-One
2018/01/20 03:51:50
Blades
I understand that they are called Pitch Maps.  I've setup my "pitch maps" in S1, but they are lacking many of the Drum Maps features, such as:
 
Notes with no duration  - since drum notes have none, I don't need to see their "length"
Limiting the display to ONLY the notes that are in the map
Ability to solo/mute individual notes within a drum performance - like only all snares or kicks or whatever
 
Those are just a few.  This is one area where Studio One is definitely behind - though the Drum Maps feature in Sonar largely hasn't changed since I built my video about them back in Sonar 5! and sorely needed to.
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