Studio One Pro

I did have to relearn a few things, and I still have to Google for videos or instructions on how to do a few things every now and then, but I like the way Studio One works and have been using it much more than SONAR for a while now. I watched some Groove 3 videos to help transition as well.
 
Still hate to see Cakewalk going away, as I have been using them since the 90s and have several of their plugins and synths.  Good old Gibson, killing everything in their path and charging double or triple what their guitars are really worth.

Might be some useful info in this 2016 thread, too.
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Studio-One-m3347053.aspx

dcumpian. I'm not sure who was copying who, but it sure looks like a lot of recent Sonar stuff has been added to Studio One.

utter rubbish, before making such comments learn where the original s1 team are from.. they are / were ex-cubase developers. there are many things that look the same across many daws. you think sonar introduced everything ? lol. best look around a bit more.
 
if that news is true regarding updates.. so much for "lifetime updates for a 1 off price"...  one "deal" I'm glad I missed out on.. been burned enough with other vendors without cakewalk joining in.
 

So is Studio One the most similar DAW to Splat?
 

Between the threads here and the Deals forum, Studio One seems to be the most popular alternative.
 
If you're not sure what to do, I suggest doing nothing for now. There's no reason to believe Sonar won't work well for years to come. By the time things start not working, "where to go from here" might be more obvious.

Glyn Barnes
MIDI is the most critical thing for me and this was not very good when I tried Studio One some time ago. I am sure its been improved a lot since then so I may take a look at the demo version again.
 
Presonus has a lot of hardware that should integrate well with Studio One, that could be a plus point.

Midi is very important for me as well. Cubase is probably by far the most developed besides Sonar, but the environment is so different that I'm wary of the time it would take me to transition. S1 looks so much more familiar...
 
Regards,
Dan

telecharge

dcumpian
I'd rather take some time to begin transitioning to another DAW than wait for an unpleasant surprise...
 

Fair enough. I'm just advocating (in general) not to do anything drastic in reaction to the news. Give yourself some time to digest it.

To be fair, I've dabbled with other DAWs in the past couple of years when Sonar's rolling updates caused me a lot of grief. But then things settled down and got better. S1 has always looked interesting and now I have a reason to dig into it. I've previously tried Reaper and just never felt completely comfortable with it, even though I did spend a good deal of time setting it up to my liking. I rfeally started this thread to see if anyone would give a good reason not to try it. So far, I've only heard good things.
 
Regards,
Dan

What a stupid mess this is! 
 
It looks to me like S1pro is the knee-jerk response. As far as I can see the free version of S1 doesn't allow the import of VSTs, and I'd like to be assured all my investments work, but I assume they will. I have Cubase elements and never really felt comfortable with it. Plus there's Steinberg's charging for the 0.5 builds of their products.
 
Whilst Sonar could continue working, the risk of it collapsing half way through a half-finished album of work is too risky. I'm fortunately at a part of the cycle where I've just finished my most recent works. So it looks like a good time to jump ship. 
 
The biggest pity is the possibility of this forum fragmenting. Presonus' forum looks moderately busy, but if a fraction of us from Sonar the forum invade them, they won't know what hit them!
 
See you on the other side, Dan!
 
Jerry

BassDaddy
Anyone know how the Mackie MCU works in S1?

I just checked, and, yes, it's supported. There are 3 built-in profiles for Mackie: Mackie Control, Mackie Control Extender and Mackie HUI.
 
Note that I struggled getting the control surface on my Panorama P6 to work well with SONAR, but it works great with S1.

Their fb group has like 20000 members. You can get help there too.

BassDaddy
Anyone know how the Mackie MCU works in S1?

From my experience, my Mackie MCU Pro worked the best in Studio One then any other DAW I have tried. You can control plugins the best. No other software required or controller needed.

I wish I could comment on the depth of midi editing in SO3. I'm a basic midi editing kind of guy.The midi functions it has does all I need it to do. I have read though that some who were using the deep midi capabilities of Sonar were disappointed in SO. This was a few years ago so this might have changed. This in no way means that what most probably do with it is inadequate. Might come up short for the deep user though. It all depends.
 
It takes just a little longer to scan my 500 plus vsts. That isn't a major thing for me. It doesn't appear to import mp3 files directly. Something I don't often do. If you need that though, might be worth looking into...or converting to something else.
 
The arranger in SO3 is second to none IMHO. You can easily move sections of arrangements around. I found this to be really helpful. 
 
Their answer to the command console in Sonar is more sleek and where you get updates and news from Presonus.
They have a direct upload to Nimbit, Soundcloud, use of offline mastering links similar to Sonar. Mac compatibility, so if you work with a mac user you can share files directly.
 
I think their hardware is under rated here on the Sonar forum. With the addition of recent hardware acceleration latency times can be trimmed WAY down.
 
I think there is far more to like about it than not to like. I found using keystrokes for FF,RW, REC etc fast. I found the GUI layout easy to use if not a little small to my eyes. Everything is drag and drop. It's easy to add efx and sends.I use two monitors and that made it easier, but I think even on a laptop the opener page is easy to navigate.
 
I really like the way Sonar lets you customize the GUI. It seems more open and usable to a guy with bad eyes. This was one of the main reason I chose to use Sonar. Probably with some GUI customizations I could grow to like SO3 better.
 
One other thing I should mention. SO has album mastering tools not seen in most other daws. You can master an album complete with tags for upload. While Sonar has some decent mastering tools it doesn't touch the surface of what SO3 can do in mastering a project.