PreSonus Studio One 3.3 is the latest in a series of free updates to Studio One 3 Artist and Studio One 3 Professional, adding frequently requested enhancements, including integration with Notion music notation and performance software for Mac and Windows.
Together, Studio One 3.3 and the newly released Notion 6 bring music composition and arranging of note events to traditional notation for printing or editing, as well as the ability to work on arrangements with Notion’s composition tools. Compositions made in Studio One 3.3 can be sent as note data to Notion for editing and printing parts. Audio or note data for each track can be moved to a copy of Notion 6 running anywhere on a network or on the same machine.
Compositions may be begun in Notion 6 or Notion for iPad and moved to Studio One for editing, sound design, and mixing. Notion 6 can find instances of Studio One 3.3 anywhere on a network, automatically open a new project, and send the audio files or note data, track data, VST instrument data, and score data straight to the DAW, retaining instrument name, score order, pan and gain settings, rehearsal marks, initial time signature, and metronome marks.
Other Studio One 3.3 enhancements include faster multitrack drum editing instant quantisation of an entire drum performance using beat slicing. New Autofill and Autofades options allow filling of gaps, removal of overlaps, and fading in one pass. Alternatively, quantisation and beat-based time-stretching can be achieved using a more advanced combination of Audio Bend and Elastique Pro 3 algorithms that preserves transients. New mixing enhancements include one-click global effects on and off, enabling quick A/B comparisons. Tracks, instruments or plug-ins can be disabled to reduce CPU load and save memory.
In addition, Studio One 3.3 Professional improves multi-processing in the DAW’s Mix Engine FX for better CPU performance and introduces a new video engine that replaces QuickTime for Windows and Mac OS-X. Based on AV Foundation for Mac OS-X and Microsoft Media Foundation for Windows, this new video engine supports more current file formats and improves audio extraction.
Studio One 3.3 is a free update for registered users of Studio One 3.0 and higher. Downloads are available from within Studio One 3 or from the user’s My.PreSonus account.
