Welcome to Studio One

All Meat. No Fat.

Artists of all levels, from beginner to seasoned professional, will find Studio One a welcome alternative to the intimidating, bloated offerings currently considered the standards.

Studio One is a groundbreaking music creation and production application for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista that makes audio recording, MIDI sequencing, and audio mastering ridiculously simple right out of the box.

It's a creative environment built for intuitive use, speed, and efficiency–and yet it's robust enough for the most complex productions. It's the DAW that a band of leading recording-hardware engineers and a team of industry-defining software-design veterans want to use for themselves. It's incredibly easy to use yet provides a wealth of professional features.

Far from just another music-production program, Studio One changes the rules of the game. Fresh code, innovative drag-and-drop MIDI mapping and plug-in management, auto-configuration with PreSonus hardware, insanely good audio quality, unlimited tracks and plug-ins per track, and a powerful, inventive Start page that literally puts the whole project right in your hands are just a few of the compelling features of Studio One.

How Studio One was Born (The Inside Story)

We had a clear and simple goal: Wipe the slate clean and apply decades of collective software and hardware experience to bring the DAW back to the musician and producer. After two years of coding and testing by some of the world's finest programmers, Studio One Artist and Studio One Pro are the result.

New-Generation Audio Engine Under the Hood

Studio One employs a unique, state-of-the-art audio engine that delivers incredibly clear, accurate sound. Studio One Pro features a 64-bit floating-point version of this audio engine that automatically switches between 64- and 32-bit operation on the fly to accommodate 32-bit plug-ins. This means you always get the highest possible sound quality and blazing speed. Studio One Artist features the same audio engine but always operates in 32-bit mode.

Compatible and Easy to Configure

Studio One is compatible with any ASIO-, Windows Audio-, or CoreAudio-compliant audio interface, including, of course, the entire line of PreSonus interfaces.

Studio One Artist

• Elegant single-window work environment
• Powerful drag-and-drop functionality
• Unlimited audio tracks, MIDI tracks, virtual instruments, buses, and FX channels
• Content browser with convenient sort options and preview player
• Automatic delay compensation
• Advanced automation
• 32-bit audio processing
• Easy-to-use sidechain routing
• Stunning virtual instruments
• User-friendly sampler
• Most intuitive MIDI-mapping system available
• Real-time audio timestretching and resampling
• K-System metering
• Compatible with any ASIO-, Windows Audio-, or Core Audio-compliant audio interface
• Works with key commands from Pro Tools, Cubase, and Logic.
• Native Effects™ 32-bit effects library with 20 dynamics processors, reverbs, modulations effects, amp simulators, etc.
  • Ampire - Amplifier-Modeling
  • Auto Filter - Envelope Filter
  • Beat Delay - Tempo-Synchronized Delay
  • Binaural Pan - Stereo Panning Effect
  • Channel Strip - Dynamics Processing and Equalizer
  • Chorus - Mono/Stereo Chorus
  • Compressor - Mono/Stereo Variable Compressor
  • Flanger - Stereo/Mono Flanger
  • Limiter - Mono/Stereo Limiter
  • Mixtool - Phase and MS Utility
  • MixVerb - Mono/Stereo Reverb
  • Phase Meter phase-correlation analysis
  • Phaser mono/stereo phaser
  • Pro EQ 7-band parametric EQ
  • Red Light Distortion distortion processor
  • Room Reverb stereo/mono room reverb
  • Spectrum Meter frequency analyzer
  • Tricomp 3-band compressor
  • Tuner instrument tuner
  • X-Trem mono/stereo tremolo
• Four virtual instruments
  • Impact™ Sample Trigger Drum Instrument with 32 drum kits by Ueberschall™
  • Presence™ Sample Player Virtual Instrument with 200 sampled instruments by Digital Sound Factory™
  • SampleOne™ Sampler Virtual Instrument
  • Mojito™ Analog-Modeling Subtractive Synthesizer
• Native Instruments™ Kore™ Player with 150 instruments
• Native Instruments™ Guitar Rig LE
• Toontrack™ EZDrummer Lite
• Nearly 1,400 drum loops (1.4 GB!) by Bandmate™ Loops
• Up to five installations and activations
• Free jambalaya recipe!