It's the thing I always realize with audio software: Nothing is perfect. That's why, for me, it's always more of a "Which one is the most ideal for me". E.g., I'm trying out Cakewalk by Bandlab at the moment. I like a couple of things, but, there's also a lot of things which annoy me about it, and I notice that there are many things which are implemented in a better way in Studio One (window management, for example, or the mixer view, or the MIDI editor, and quick tools...).
You'll simply have to live with some worse feature implementations. Or... you go back to your former DAW again.
Studio One - Layers are weird / Edit: still not fixed in 6.2
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Studio One - Layers are weird / Edit: still not fixed in 6.2
2021-10-05T14:33:08+00:00
Because of the Reason debacle I am in the process of switching over to Studio One for good. And while I have owned it for many years and have recorded/produced one or the other song with it and played around with it now and then, there are some things I never really looked into too closely - and Layers certainly is one of them. I avoided looking tooo closely because the whole thing seems like a mess to me.
Unfortunately most DAWs seem really weird and unneccessarily convoluted to me when it comes to dealing with audio-takes, and Studio One is no exception here.
Here are a couple of oddities that seem to make dealing with audio a pain in Studio One:
- if you record to layers, the first loop-recording you make which is done to a second region on the timeline (i.e. you first record 5 takes from bar one to bar 9, then from bar 9 to 13), will use the existing layers. Once you stop recording (and this might really just be for a moment because the telephone rings), it however will create additional layers, thus potentially causing a gap of several layers between the takes. The next recording to yet another region on the timeline will then again use the firstz layers - until you stop recording. Then it will use the newly created layers - until you stop recording, then it will create new layers. What could be the reasoning behind that?
It causes layers to add up until you might perhaps be left with a hundred of them (or more), where there may be huge gaps on some regions. And of course it cause a huge mess.
- if you try to avoid that by not recording to layers, but instead want to unpack to layers afterwards, unpacking to existing layers will really start at the top-most layer, even if some or all of these layers are already occupied. Unpack to new layers will create additional ones. In other words: there seemss to be no way to have Studio One unpack to existing but empty layers. What on earth? Seriously - you couldn't make this crap up!
- if you have "layers follow events" ticked, it will only do that if you move the events on the same track. If you however want to move them to another track, you are out of luck.
- you can't seem to move layers by hand in any way - unless you unpack them to a track first
- you can always only unpack a single layer at once
Probably some more weird stuff I can't think of right now...
What gives? How long since Studio One introduced Layers? How come it's still not working properly?
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The way they worded some of the improvements in the new 6.2 update gave me high hopes that they finally fixed this -but alas - the layer organization is still as much of a nigh unuseable mess as it always was. 
(Dang - what a disappointment - I was SO ready to finally update to V6...
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(Dang - what a disappointment - I was SO ready to finally update to V6...
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