Hi,

I made the mistake and upgraded to V7 for production use in a commercial studio.

Do NOT do the same mistake. I have encountered countless bugs, too many to remember. I have reported many of them in Presonus. Some of them are really nasty and I've even lost work.

I think v7 is by far the most unstable release yet.

Alex

Studio One (S1) has a huge history and has earned its stellar niche—the name highlights that it's the ONE AND ONLY, setting it clearly apart from everything else. How could you so awkwardly rename it? How could you wash away all brand uniqueness?

It would've made sense to call it Fender Studio ONE. But instead, you're making faceless solution and renaming it Fender Studio Pro. That lumps it in with a ton of other products already out there: Logic Pro, Acid Pro, Pro Tools, Final Cut Pro, Cubase Pro, you name it.

You have no experience in products of that kind (DAW, plugins etc). And you've never really tapped into the electronic music market. Studio One was the perfect bridge between classic DAWs and modern like Bitwig, Ableton. What's left? Just the "guitar connection".

You've stripped out S1 - good brand association, positioning yourselves for a narrower crowd of live musicians who know Fender. Guys, I don't know what's happening with all these "corporations", but it seems that big crowd of managers make the most bland decisions because everyone is afraid of upsetting their supervisor. As a result, it turns out to be faceless.

In one moment, you threw the baby out with the bathwater.

Poor Fender.

I redesigned the icon. I'm not a designer and I'm not entirely happy with it, but now it's tolerable and doesn't look as shameful as they did in Fender Studio Pro 8. Back in the days of PreSonus Studio One, their icon also turned me off, while 95% of software looked great in my start bar. They should definitely hire an icon designer, like Adobe, Cubase, Ableton, Firefox, Google, Telegram, and Discord have done. Even the icons for open-source programs look better.

I think you need to download this image, and then any online converter to the .ico format for Windows will do, and for Mac you can figure it out yourself:

Oh boy...

What a disapointment. I'd read a few accounts indicating that a lot of the hate was emotionally-based on the name change and it was actually the best version yet. I'm guessing those folks may not have been very discerning. The first time I started it up, I started a clean session to test out the new amps. Upon arming a track to record it stopped passing audio, transport was stuck. Completely unable to play. I switched buffer sizes, audio devices which can sometimes resolve weird glitches. Nothing. Had to restart. Got the amps to work. I'm not necessarily crazy about the interface but the amps sound great and are lightweight compared to a lot of 3rd party stuff. Nice. Tried some of the newer instruments. Sound pretty good. Cinematic lights is nice. Went to make sure that the Presence XT concert flute works (I love that thing, as odd as it may sound. Sue me.) and from C-4 to C-5, the heart of its range, only the loudest velocity layer works! None of the quieter samples can be heard. Reinstalled the winds core library. Nothing. Tried in a new project. Nothing. Contacted tech support and they said it's a known issue. No expected resolution date! So after the upgrade, I had barely used it for an hour (most of which was spent just jamming on the amps) and found two major issues. I can't imagine what else is in there waiting like a land mine.

I love this DAW you guys. It's very thoughtfully designed, quick, streamlined, comfortable, and just does what it's supposed to do extremely well. But I can't stay on 6.6 forever. Eventually, as the surrounding tech progresses, it's going get cranky, and finally stop working. I don't make much money doing this, but I absolutely have professional obligations to multiple entities, and I can't risk migrating and locking in projects to an unreliable system. Sucks.... If any of you folks feel similarly I'd implore you to contact Fender and ask them to fix the ship before it sinks. Cause if no one doing serious work can rely on this thing it absolutely will. It might not do any good but it's gotta be better than nothing.

Thanks for reading.

TL/DR: Found two major issues in less than an hour. God knows how many other bugs are floating around in there. Great potential but if Fender doesn't reprioritize I'm betting it'll be gone in a couple years. Call your representatives /s

Loooooove the new AI integration, can’t wait to generate music with my own two hands 😁 I was thinking of ways Fender© could further implement AI into Studio Pro’s workflow:

• AI based EQ: Having a way to listen to a track and automatically device EQ moves in context would save so much time on things like critical thought and being creative, really weird they haven’t thought of this already 🤔

• AI lyric generation: Sometimes it’s really hard to come up with lyrics in the middle of a session because I have to close the DAW to ask ChatGPT, maybe for their next paid implementation they could hook something up with the GPT guys?

• General improvements: I got confused this morning putting on my socks, can Fender make an AI to help me?

On a real one tho why would you implement automated pitch shifting and announce integration of a poor man’s Suno before saying that? I’ve been waiting for that for years and these corpos think I want a computer to produce my tracks for me? Really unfortunate update as some of he features will be really useful, just wish these companies would stop shoving unwanted Gen AI down our throats

This laptop could land a lunar orbiter on the moon, but I can't get latency below 20ms, making it utterly useless. I'm traveling so won't be bringing an interface. I'm just plugging in a keyboard (I've tried the Nektar Impact GC mini and the Arturia mini) and no matter what I do it's impossible to play notes that are in time. I'm using Windows audio (again because traveling) and the lowest I can get block size is 259 samples. I've maxed processing and turned on the Z. Still completely unusable. You'd think this would be simple with the processing power of computers.... hair is being pulled out.

I recently purchased a perpetual license for Studio One, but I’m really disappointed with the lack of upgrade options. I was hoping to access the extra content available with Studio One+, but the only way to get it is through a full annual subscription ($179) or monthly ($20/month).

What’s frustrating is that I just paid $150 for a perpetual license, and PreSonus support suggested I buy a subscription on top of that. While I know I could go for a monthly subscription ($20/month), that would end up costing way more than just purchasing the annual plan from the start, even though the actual price difference between the perpetual license and the subscription would have been much less for the year.

To make it worse, with the annual Studio One+ subscription, you also get a perpetual license included, so I’d essentially be paying for it twice if I got the annual subscription.

Since Fender changed the name from Studio One to Studio Pro, I was wondering why this subreddit still uses the old name. Is there a specific reason for keeping it as Studio One, like branding, searchability, or just because most users still call it that?

Game changer for composers!!

I'm 100% sure they changed their minds when it comes to that updates scheme they showed us last year. the question is, what are they going for now? my only fear is studio one fate being the same as other daws like luna, cakewalk etc

I want to make this post for anyone else thinking of switching to S1 , especially from FL Studio.

I went to a pro studio this past week, the first time. I do my work in FL studio, but audio editing sucks in FL, so I thought well hey S1 is the best of both worlds according to everyone online. i imported my project into studio one, and there was some great things and not so great things. i think im just going back to FL Studio.

Here is what I liked about S1:

- amazing built-in reference manual that shows you how to do everything. keeps it simple.

- ? mark gives you information about anything you want to learn.

- easy to organize things and colourize, easy on the eyes.

- has way better audio editing than FL studio, but this is also a gripe for me

- keeps all files in one place, easy to change this

- an arranger window, this is such a freaking awesome lovely idea IN THEORY.

What I didn't like:

- overall Studio one feels glitchy, and clunky, and crashy. it feels half-baked in some aspects.

- call me crazy, but the snap feature does not seem robust at all. i CONSTANTLY had to reenable snap to get it to work, select the bars/beats and then the quantize feature as well. sometimes i had all settings correct and it still wouldnt work! this drove me so crazy. i wasted so much time enabling/reenabling.

- i dont know if its a glitch, but when horizontally scrolling with mouse, it kept zooming in! ugh, whyyyy

- the midi editor sucks compared to FL Studio. nothing beats FL studio MIDI editing and I've tried reaper, s1, ableton, reaper, all the others are garbage. its not intuitive, its ugly, and feels like crap. but, the fl studio UI is just so amazing and smooth...sigh

- S1 kept crashing, like enough times i was getting really frustrated. i went deep dive in it for 1-2 weeks and it just kept crashing or stalling. i believe this was due to analog lab being a shitty plugin, but FL studio never crashes this much even with multiple analog lab instances.

- it has audio editing yes, but it was not intuitive, again this was probably a learning curve i didnt have time to delve into. when i tried splicing parts together and have them crossfade at 0 points, there was still audible clicks/drops. ive done crossfading in reaper, and its very seamless and easy in reaper. even fl studio has somewhat basic crossfading features that actually work. but i felt i had to 'play' around with s1 a lot more.

- arranger track is awesome right? well yes, but it does not seem robust. sometimes you can drag sections, sometimes you cant...i somehow dragged the start/end markers from the main window into the arranger window and i was unable to move them back to the main window or delete them?!...also, if you have MIDI notes that start a bit before the bar, but you slice it then move it, you get overlapping midi with other sections if they end past their bar. this makes sense but there should be some sort of option to 'force all midi to start of bar' or 'quanitize midi when slicing' type thing. or i guess you could quantize......

- the built in plugs felt garbage. i mean the reverb plugs suck. fl studio has reverb 2 and reverb, and these reverb plugins are just so freaking awesome. the studio one native plugins didnt do much for me, i tried replicating plugin settings from fl studio but it just wouldnt sound as good.

this is in a nutshell for me, ill add more if there are any.

If that money means that the developers are actually going to start implementing feature requests…. It’s fucking ridiculous that they released studio one 7 and didn’t implement a single small feature from the feature requests.

We still don’t have MIDI tracks in show mode

We still don’t have the ability to MOVE LAYERS

We still can’t transfer sound variations back to notes for exports

This is just a few mentions that are NOT AT ALL big requests.

But what do we get with studio one 7? A new pricing model and some curvy edges. Cool. Fuck off.

I own a ton of presonus hardware and I’ve been using studio one for years now. I was stoked when I saw that 7 was announced until I watched the announcement video and all they talked about was the new fucking pricing model.

I'm not saying this will happen (I may have heard something through the grapevine), would that inspire confidence in the product? What if you heard that the Quantum line of interfaces and the Eris monitors were also getting Fender branding attached? Just asking the community.

Been using Studio One since v3 came out... Helped tons of people use it over the years.

Just got banned from their Facebook group for daring to voice disappointment over the new pricing model.

What a joke. Fuck them.

Wtf is this ?

These are clearly a much needed update to the ATOM and ATOM SQ controllers, but these prices are ridiculous. This is near inline with Nektar CS12 prices, but CS12 controllers can, at least, be used effectively across multiple DAWs.

This is just unnecessarily expensive. And because the Studio One API has been locked down for so long, there are no other control surface options. Just absurd.

I wasted several hours on this ! Songs from S1 v7 opened in Fender studio pro all misbehaving too many bugs to list ! Like LOADS of them weird stuff!! I’m on a new M4 Mac mini with loads of RAM etc… this release is not ready for release yet. anyone else ??

It’s so much harder to cut with precision when you don’t want to be right on the beat. This isn’t a big deal for most beginners but it sucks for the pro level work.

Is there a way to turn square corners back on for regions?

Hi,

Although I've been taking production classes for a few months, I'm just now investing in speakers (been using headphones & an audio interface). I really hate having a bunch of wires & want some bluetooth speakers. However, all the tutorials I see on youtube discuss wired speakers & hooking up the cords. So, I'm wondering if bluetooth speakers are compatible w/ studio one & good for producing. I would really appreciate some insight. Thank you.

(More info: my interface, mic, & headphones are all wired. I hook them up to my computer to produce. This speaker would be my only wireless device).

I'll add that the bluetooth speaker I found is advertised as a studio monitor and is made by Presonus. Amazon.com: PreSonus Eris E3.5 BT-3.5" Near Field Studio Monitors with Bluetooth : Everything Else

With each new version, I keep hoping S1 would add an Ableton-like session view. So far, nada. This is a feature more and more DAWs are implementing and I believe it’s only a matter of time before the majority of DAWs implement such a desired feature. Imo, if S1 wants to maintain feasibility, it must do the same. I realize S1 version 7 is at least another year away. Here’s hoping they do the right thing. It could then lay claim as being the most complete, easiest DAW on the market. But until then, it’s becoming an increasing, glaring omission.

What are your thoughts?

The new CEO said:

Fender CEO Andy Mooney suggested that the software's future could be “simpler, more intuitive and less expensive”. He went on to say, “The simplest version of Studio One right now has a 150-page owner's manual, which I have said to the team is 149 pages too many,” he says.

“Having dabbled in recording myself, I’ve never found a DAW I didn't need an MIT degree to actually use. You shouldn't need to spend more time figuring out how to use a DAW than you do creating.

He seems like a complete noob who has no idea what users really want. I already consider Studio one to be the most intuitive of the DAWs, so his statements are quite surprising.