Installation was super easy with one installer from the PreSonus site, especially in this era where ironically you have to download a separate piece of software to install your software. Even though that’s average or slightly below today’s music hardware standards, S1.4 has been running with nary a glitch. Of course, there are many deep expert-level layers that you’ll need to search online for, but Studio One’s enthusiastic community makes finding these features easy.Ībout my computer as it might be relevant to others thinking about switching over to S1.4 (Studio One 4): I use a 4-year old Razer Blade ‘gaming’ laptop with a 2.4ghz i7 processor, 16gb of RAM, and an SSD drive. Meanwhile, its deceptively minimal ‘flat’ interface is intuitive enough to jump right in.
The zippy way it draws waveforms and opens tabs without any fancy fading just plain works and feels like precise no-frills coding.
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Gone are any graphic-card-clogging ‘friendly’ Windows Vista style transitions (not sure why some programs still insist on this). To put it simply, with much fewer mouse clicks and key-strokes and much less CPU load, 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 leap-frog forward in so many ways. I would only fire up the program when the song was mostly written. The end result was a dread of experimenting. 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, through habit I stuck with Cakewalk through the years, appreciating its incremental improvements, but realizing that its long-lived legacy was exactly its Achilles heel. To take the analogy further, mid-2000’s software during the dreaded Windows Vista era became the equivalent of 1980s gas guzzlers: Programs like AutoCAD and Cakewalk with one foot shackled to the analog conceptual world became bloated to accommodate new functions within old form.
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 environment. For this reason, I can’t help make parallel comparisons between the two: Cakewalk was my musician’s version of AutoCAD. I started using recording software, namely Cakewalk, in 1992 roughly around the same time I started using AutoCAD to draw architecture.
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