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Bartone · Post by **Bartone** » Sat Dec 24, 2022 10:19 pm

After Studio One 6 introduced Track Presets, are people still using templates especially for orchestral stuff?

lights · Post by **lights** » Mon Dec 26, 2022 6:03 pm

I never really was into templates. Hate sitting there twiddling my thumbs while 30 tracks are being loaded with 42 different instrument plugins and 80 something effects. The track presets have been much more practical for my workflow.

Trensharo · Post by **Trensharo** » Wed Jan 04, 2023 1:09 am

lights wrote: Mon Dec 26, 2022 6:03 pm I never really was into templates. Hate sitting there twiddling my thumbs while 30 tracks are being loaded with 42 different instrument plugins and 80 something effects. The track presets have been much more practical for my workflow.

You don't wait for 42 different instrument plugins and 80 something effects to load because the tracks are disabled. A template with 500 tracks loads in like 5 seconds in Cubase Pro.

How well either of these workflows works depends heavily on how well the DAW supports the mechanisms needed to make it as frictionless as possible.

In some DAWs, large templates work better than in others.

Conversely, some DAWs have better Track Template implementation than others.

The point of a Template is that you put all of your go to libraries in there and you pre-mix the entire thing, have MIDI at the beginning of the track to set CCs to necessary values, etc. So, you load it up, enable the tracks you need, go to beginning and press play. Voila. The entire thing is mixed and you basically only have to worry about the music (or any audio recording you need to do).

Additionally, I still find it better to use a template with an articulation per track because Libraries have gotten so big that keyswitched patches don't have everything you need in them and often the "mix" of the different articulations is not correct in the keyswitched patches. This just forces you to do all wort of automation. It's not my cup of tea.

Of course, some libraries are better than others about this, so it's very YMMV and dependent on what libraries you use.

Bartone · Post by **Bartone** » Wed Jan 04, 2023 5:43 pm

Any ideas if Cubase & Studio One are pretty same about speed when opening projects? I mean bigger template.

Trensharo · Post by **Trensharo** » Sun Jan 08, 2023 2:39 am

Bartone wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 5:43 pm Any ideas if Cubase & Studio One are pretty same about speed when opening projects? I mean bigger template.

No. Cubase is faster.

Sluggishness with huge projects/templates is a longstanding issue with Studio One. It has improved in recent years, but it is definitely not Cubase-level when working with large projects.

Studio One6 Track presets vs Orchestral Templates?