I won’t get too deep into why I’m feeling a bit done with Pro Tools, but my issues with the platform align with all of the common complaints in the user communities – instability, arcane subscription fees, sluggish development, seemingly unempathetic support. Of course, there are many deep, expert-level layers, which may require a search online, but Studio One’s enthusiastic community makes finding these features easy.ĭG: After being an active user of Pro Tools for more than 15 years, I’d been searching for a replacement DAW – one that I can quickly and intuitively record and mix in, and most importantly, that is fast on the editing side of the fence. Meanwhile, its deceptively minimal "flat" interface is intuitive enough to jump right in. To put it simply, with much fewer mouse clicks and keystrokes, far less CPU load, and no momentum-robbing crashes, I can get to the point of writing and working more creatively. Who knows if Studio One will also have to deal with a weighed-down legacy interface in 2024 when it turns 15, but for now, it’s a welcome leapfrog improvement in so many ways.
The end result was a dread for experimenting, and I would only fire up the program when the song was mostly written. Compounding its glitches that would munch away at a golden performance, its attempt to bridge legacy and new functionality resulted in inane shortcuts a split-second slip of the finger would force me into hours of tinkering to recall a mis-toggled function or hidden window. Even as I moved on from AutoCAD, I stuck with Cakewalk through habit for many years, appreciating its incremental improvements, but realizing that its long-lived legacy was exactly its Achilles heel. Programs like AutoCAD and Cakewalk, with one foot shackled to the analog conceptual world, became bloated to accommodate new functions within old form.
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To take the analogy further, mid-2000s software during the dreaded Windows Vista era became the equivalent of ‘80s gas guzzlers. Both programs were game changers for obvious reasons, but as software development goes, new products like Studio One don’t just move the game forward in a linear way, they leapfrog several steps ahead. Where the latter made digital drafting available to the masses, the former allowed me to move from tape to digital within the ubiquitous Windows OS. Cakewalk was my musician’s version of AutoCAD. For this reason, I can’t help making parallel comparisons between the two. JH: I started using recording software, namely Cakewalk, in 1992 – roughly the same year I started using AutoCAD for architecture. We invited both writers to tell us about their experiences with Studio One 4.5 Professional. Meanwhile, John Hong recorded, mixed, and mastered on his Windows laptop using Cakewalk. Previously, Dana Gumbiner relied primarily on Pro Tools in the studio and at home, while he also served as our resident expert on Ableton Live (which he continues to use for electronic music production and stage performance). Two of our veteran contributing writers recently switched to Studio One for music recording and mixing. Over the years, the DAW’s feature set has grown significantly, and, impressively, it remains one of the most streamlined audio applications in terms of its user experience.
It’s been nearly a decade since we published a review of the original version of Studio One.
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