mjsalam
Active Member
Been playing about with Studio One 5 Pro demo and without having gone super deep am intrigued by what appears to be a decent middle ground between Logic and Cubase (both of which I perpetually waffle between). Reading though threads here the consensus on S1 seems to be one (or all of the following):
- Great DAW - want to like it but performance is awful (compared to ...) and crashes a ton.
- Great DAW - worthy of serious consideration...in 5-10 years.
- Great DAW - so close...but not quite for "serious" work.
On the surface though here is what I like about it:
- has the track visibility and management options I really like in Cubase (which logic doesn't have)
- cross-platform (in case that dark day comes where I can no longer justify the Apple ecosystem)
- much better licensing scheme than Steinberg (ie. no dongle). I work between a laptop and desktop a lot and for me dongles are pure shite.
- seems to have a sensible balance between power features and "simplicity" / workflow
- like the idea of of the "project" component allowing you to treat a body of work as a ..well...a body of work and apply treatment accoridngly
In terms of what I want to do - I write all manner of music - but I am very focused these days on orchestral/hybrid.
So my question to all is ...have any of you gone down this path for similar reasons (or coming from similar places) only to find that you hit a wall and returned to from whence you came?
TIA!
- Great DAW - want to like it but performance is awful (compared to ...) and crashes a ton.
- Great DAW - worthy of serious consideration...in 5-10 years.
- Great DAW - so close...but not quite for "serious" work.
On the surface though here is what I like about it:
- has the track visibility and management options I really like in Cubase (which logic doesn't have)
- cross-platform (in case that dark day comes where I can no longer justify the Apple ecosystem)
- much better licensing scheme than Steinberg (ie. no dongle). I work between a laptop and desktop a lot and for me dongles are pure shite.
- seems to have a sensible balance between power features and "simplicity" / workflow
- like the idea of of the "project" component allowing you to treat a body of work as a ..well...a body of work and apply treatment accoridngly
In terms of what I want to do - I write all manner of music - but I am very focused these days on orchestral/hybrid.
So my question to all is ...have any of you gone down this path for similar reasons (or coming from similar places) only to find that you hit a wall and returned to from whence you came?
TIA!