Studio One 5 Available Now (5.3 Out June 29th, 2021)

[Fornicras]

Guys I have a problem that drives me crazy since Studio One 5.3, when I click to Files tab in the browser, Studio One freezes for about 40-50 seconds like it tries to read the disks, but my disks are fast, my drumkit folder (which directly opens when I hit Files) is on a Samsung EVO SSD. After 50 seconds, it finally opens the folders I look for, and it doesn't happen for that project anymore until I restart Studio One.

I contacted support, they said it will be solved on 5.4 but it didn't solve it. They cannot do anything else about it because they cannot reproduce it. I try to open the same disk in Windows Explorer, FL Studio, Premiere Pro, Da Vinci Resolve and Illustrator, they open really fast. Only Studio One has this problem. Any suggestions?

I can confirm this but I don’t have any suggestions. Haven’t used S1 much since V5 because they introduced a lot of issues like this. After a year of not fixing them they seem to be considered the new normal.

I've solved it right after writing this comment. It was because I had a disconnected network drive listed on my computer. I removed it and it worked. Turns out it was because Studio One was trying to index the drive which is not connected and it froze the application while doing it because it couldn't find anything.

Kudos to you for determining the actual cause of the issue. It should be reported to PreSonus Support for the developers to fix, because Studio One should not freeze when a drive is unreachable; it could check to see if the drive is available before trying to scan its contents.

Yeah, I reported that back to them explaining the solution, hope they fix it so that nobody will experience this. It was so bad that kept me away from making music for the last month, it really kills your mood to wait 40 seconds to reach your samples.

Edit: By the way, Fender acquiring Presonus and Studio One was the saddest news yesterday, I don't wanna switch to another DAW, just switched to SO about 5-6 months ago. This is of course if Fender messes up the DAW, which is very likely IMO.

[AdvancedFollower]

Kudos to you for determining the actual cause of the issue. It should be reported to PreSonus Support for the developers to fix, because Studio One should not freeze when a drive is unreachable; it could check to see if the drive is available before trying to scan its contents.

It's more of a Windows issue than a Studio One issue. The same thing will happen in explorer if you try to open an unavailable network path, or if you have some of your library locations (Pictures, Documents etc.) mapped to network locations that are unavailable. Windows and (Studio One) won't know whether a network share is available or not until it has tried to connect to it, and the attempt has timed out.

You can reduce the timeout value by creating/editing the DWORD "SessTimeout" under \HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters

However it's always better to simply disconnect and unmap any unavailable SMB UNC paths, such as disconnected networks drives.

[Metrik+]

November sale / Black Friday: Looking back at previous years, do you think Studio One Professional will go on sale this month - and if yes, when? And how much reduced in price?

[mdstudio]

November sale / Black Friday: Looking back at previous years, do you think Studio One Professional will go on sale this month - and if yes, when? And how much reduced in price?

My guess is 30 - 50% but they just got acquired so no one knows really

[Metrik+]

My guess is 30 - 50% but they just got acquired so no one knows really

50% off would be awesome. I don't think that the new owner will have had time to do any adjustments to the setup of Presonus come Black Friday. If Presonus had planned a sale for Black Friday, they will go through with it, I think. Any changes to the Presonus team, if any, will likely take months to plan and implement. But I'm worried by this acquisition in the long run.

[antic604]

November sale / Black Friday: Looking back at previous years, do you think Studio One Professional will go on sale this month - and if yes, when? And how much reduced in price?

Just get it 2nd hand. Knobcloud is safe:

https://www.knobcloud.com/i/21032/preso ... -melodyne-

https://www.knobcloud.com/i/21892/preso ... ofessional

[Gadget Fiend]

If Fender ends up having any influence over the Studio One roadmap, it will likely be to encourage a return to Studio One's roots as an audio-focused digital recorder and not a MIDI songwriting tool. After all, Fender makes guitars, basses, amps, etc. People who play these instruments don't need a lot of advanced MIDI functions for the most part.

Sure, Studio One has always had MIDI features that are far superior to what's in Pro Tools (another audio-focused recorder). But I don't see a lot of additional development in Studio One on the MIDI side going forward.

[briefcasemanx]

The midi features aren't even great. Partial quantize locked at 50%????????

A lot of the default behavior in the DAW is just senseless, and the options menus are super bare ones so I can't change default behavior unless it's a hotkey.

I just hope under Fender they make a DAW sometime that's not buggy as all hell. 5 was supposed to be less buggy buts it's worse for me.

The only reason I picked Studio One was due to mix fx, but I'm starting to want to just go back to Cubase again, since that was always more stable for me.

[WatchTheGuitar]

Was about to say, Studio One is pretty weak at MIDI and way behind many others in third party MIDI effect plugin handling

[Serhii Kot]

The midi features aren't even great. Partial quantize locked at 50%????????

What do you mean by that? alt+q(opt+q on mac) or what?
You can set quantize strength by any percentage you want. More to it, you can create a macro and assign a shortcut to and value you want.

S1 midi is 99% there for the vast majority of users. I don't really know what to add there for me personally. Maybe more straightforward velocity compression and expansion to velocity transform tool. Like in Cubase for example.

[briefcasemanx]

The midi features aren't even great. Partial quantize locked at 50%????????

What do you mean by that? alt+q(opt+q on mac) or what?
You can set quantize strength by any percentage you want. More to it, you can create a macro and assign a shortcut to and value you want.

S1 midi is 99% there for the vast majority of users. I don't really know what to add there for me personally. Maybe more straightforward velocity compression and expansion to velocity transform tool. Like in Cubase for example.

Great. How do you set partial quantize strength to not be the default 50%?

[antic604]

Great. How do you set partial quantize strength to not be the default 50%?

[chk071]

Was about to say, Studio One is pretty weak at MIDI and way behind many others in third party MIDI effect plugin handling

Granted, Reaper is the most easy in that regard, but, Cubase, Cakewalk, Ableton, FL Studio are kind of the same as Studio One regarding MIDI effect plugin handling. If anything, Ableton or FLS are more difficult than Studio One.

[apoclypse]

The midi features aren't even great. Partial quantize locked at 50%????????

What do you mean by that? alt+q(opt+q on mac) or what?
You can set quantize strength by any percentage you want. More to it, you can create a macro and assign a shortcut to and value you want.

S1 midi is 99% there for the vast majority of users. I don't really know what to add there for me personally. Maybe more straightforward velocity compression and expansion to velocity transform tool. Like in Cubase for example.

The only thing I would want is more realtime tools versus relying so much on Macros but other than that I have no real complaints about Midi in S1.

[WatchTheGuitar]

Was about to say, Studio One is pretty weak at MIDI and way behind many others in third party MIDI effect plugin handling

Granted, Reaper is the most easy in that regard, but, Cubase, Cakewalk, Ableton, FL Studio are kind of the same as Studio One regarding MIDI effect plugin handling. If anything, Ableton or FLS are more difficult than Studio One.

I use Bitwig, Reaper, Ableton and S1. The first two are clearly better with MIDI, Ableton has that stupid ‘route everything to MIDI channel one’ issue, granted, but Suite does come with some very useful Max MIDI devices.
Oh I’ve got Reason too, I guess out of the box it’s worse than S1 at MIDI before you look at the really cool MIDI REs, so well done S1 I guess.

“ S1 midi is 99% there for the vast majority of users” is pretty meaningless as the vast majority of users will be doing very basic MIDI sequencing.