Studio One Artists...Worth Time? Best Upgrade Path?

[Kumi_27]

They seemed to have removed the page that directly compares the different versions of Studio One side-by-side.

They probably will put it back up - there are still some dead links on v5 pages.

I simply copied all features from Artist and Pro to text editor and compared the contents
Here is the result, features available in Pro version and not mentioned in Artist:

64-bit floating-point WAV recording and export
Acoustic Drum Kits and Loops
Arpeggiator
Chord Track and Harmonic Editing
Chorder
Console Shaper
Electronic Audioloops
Electronic Kits and Musicloops
Extended FX Chains
Groove Delay
IR Maker
Listen Bus
Mastering Tools
Mix Engine FX
Mixer Scenes
MTC/MMC Synchronization
Multi Instruments
Multiband Dynamics
Note FX
OpenAIR
Pipeline XT
Presence XT core library
Producer Loops and Kits
Project Page
Publication and distribution
Repeater
Scope
Score Editor
Scratch Pads
Show Page
Studio One FX
Studio One Impulse Responses
Ueberschall Impact Drums
Vengeance Sound
Video Import/Export/Player

[concealed identity]

They seemed to have removed the page that directly compares the different versions of Studio One side-by-side.

They probably will put it back up - there are still some dead links on v5 pages.

I simply copied all features from Artist and Pro to text editor and compared the contents
Here is the result, features available in Pro version and not mentioned in Artist:

64-bit floating-point WAV recording and export
Acoustic Drum Kits and Loops
Arpeggiator
Chord Track and Harmonic Editing
Chorder
Console Shaper
Electronic Audioloops
Electronic Kits and Musicloops
Extended FX Chains
Groove Delay
IR Maker
Listen Bus
Mastering Tools
Mix Engine FX
Mixer Scenes
MTC/MMC Synchronization
Multi Instruments
Multiband Dynamics
Note FX
OpenAIR
Pipeline XT
Presence XT core library
Producer Loops and Kits
Project Page
Publication and distribution
Repeater
Scope
Score Editor
Scratch Pads
Show Page
Studio One FX
Studio One Impulse Responses
Ueberschall Impact Drums
Vengeance Sound
Video Import/Export/Player

Hey thanks! I'll have to check out what some of these are, or if they do what I think they do.

[Kumi_27]

Okay, so I pulled the trigger
Had to change the above list a little, because Artist version includes the Ueberschall Impact Drums and Vengeance Sound soundsets.
The included soundsets are:

Impact XT Kits and Sounds
Prime Selection Loops and Sounds
Studio One Expansion
Studio One Instruments Vol 1
Studio One Instruments Vol 2
Studio One Musicloops
Studio One Piano
Ueberschall Impact Drums
Vengeance-Sound
Voodoo One Synth

in total ~6.5GB