The Presonus Studio One Artist is a 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, yet provides a wealth of professional features.

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 that make the Presonus Studio One Artist the next generation in audio software. Far from just another music-production program, Studio One changes the rules of the game, giving you a complete, easy-to-use solution from raw tracks to finished master, while supporting the latest standards and technologies.

Studio One Artist Features

Studio One Artist is not a dumbed-down, “lite” version of Studio One Pro. Rather, it’s just one version of the same creative recording and production platform—with unlimited track count and the same intuitive interface.  Studio One Artist is bundled with all PreSonus FireStudio audio interfaces and is also available separately from authorized dealers.

• 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 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
• Free jambalaya recipe!

HIGH-END AUDIO ENGINE

Studio One is based on a cutting-edge audio engine that delivers unparalleled sound. Studio One Pro’s 64-bit audio engine automatically switches between 32-bit and 64-bit floating-point processing on the fly (even with a 32-bit OS), ensuring the highest quality audio at all times. Studio One Artist’s audio engine 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 recognizes your PreSonus interface, and preprogrammed templates automatically create software inputs and assign them to the appropriate hardware inputs on your PreSonus interface. You don’t have to configure your software to work with your hardware—Studio One does it for you!”

Studio One stores I/O configurations with each song, for each computer, and for each device driver. As a result, you can take a song to a friend’s studio, use Studio One with their interface, and when you get back to your studio, Studio One will recall the original I/O configuration for the song, as if you never left. This works regardless of interface.

INNOVATIVE START PAGE

A powerful tool that will appeal to professionals and hobbyists alike, the Start page allows you to access recent songs and projects, create new ones, configure external devices, and access tutorial information, demo songs, and a special PreSonus news feed. You can download updates and support materials directly from the Start page, without ever leaving Studio One.

EASY TO NAVIGATE

Unlike most music-production programs, a single, straightforward workspace allows you to track, edit, and mix in one easy-to-navigate window that you can access with a single click. Or if you wish, you can separate the Console and Arrange views and can even drag them to separate displays. A compact Console view allows you to mix while viewing the arrangement so you don’t have to bounce back and forth between windows. You also can switch to a larger Console view—yet another way that Studio One helps you work quickly while giving you maximum flexibility.

The Arrange view employs a waveform display with user-selectable color-coding and sample-level zoom. The Arrange view shows you the big picture, while the Edit view shows you the up-close details; used together, they virtually eliminate the need to zoom in and out. The Console view contains faders, solos, mutes, pans, and other expected elements. It also includes extensive sidechaining capability.

Studio One’s Browser provides instant access to effects, loops, instruments, and other key elements. You can preview any audio clip, and if the clip has tempo information encoded, it will play synced to the song tempo.

POWERFUL DRAG-AND-DROP FEATURES

Here’s where it gets really interesting: Studio One’s powerful drag-and-drop function allows you to drag an audio clip, effect, or a virtual instrument from the Browser directly onto a track in the Arrange or Console view. Time stretching enables Studio One to automatically match tempo-encoded audio clips with Song tempo. You can copy an effect or a whole chain of effects—including settings—by simply dragging to a new track in the Console view. These are just a few of the many ways that Studio One’s Browser and drag-and-drop implementation allow you to work quickly, without scrolling through pages of menus. It’s a lot more fun too! No other music-production program even comes close.

AWESOME PLUG-INS

Of course, Studio One supports ReWire and the VST and AU plug-in formats, including the new VST 3 plug-in specification, so Studio One is ready to use the newest plug-ins as they are released. It also utilizes automatic delay compensation, which keeps tracks in sync regardless of plug-in processing. But the most glittering gems are PreSonus’s proprietary Native Effects Suite plug-ins, which include a wide variety of built-in effects, such as compressors, EQs, distortion, delay effects, amp modeling, modulation effects, and reverbs. These are brand-new plug-ins that process audio with 64-bit floating-point double precision. This is truly state-of-the-art technology. Three new PreSonus virtual instruments are also bundled with Studio One, including SampleOne, a virtual sampler that offers the fastest sample mapping available.

EASY, INTUITIVE MIDI MAPPING

When it comes to MIDI mapping, Studio One changes the rules yet again. Of course, you can record MIDI parts and then tweak them in a piano-roll editor. But the real fun starts with Control Link, the most intuitive MIDI-mapping system available. Simply move the hardware and software controls to be linked and click the Link button for instant mapping. In Global mode, hardware and software controls maintain a one-to-one relationship, so a hardware control is linked directly to one software control for the entire program. In Focus mode, control maps only apply to a particular plug-in, so you can make different control maps for each plug-in, and the Focus map is stored with the plug-in, giving you no-sweat, context-sensitive MIDI mapping. This works with all parameters of any VST or AU plug-in. At last, a music-production application that makes controller mapping as easy and flexible as it always should have been!

System Requirments

Macintosh

• Operating Systems: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or Mac OS X 10.5.2 or higher
• Hardware:
  • Minimum:
    • PowerPC G4 1.25 GHz or Intel Core Solo 1.5 GHz processor
    • 1 GB RAM
  • Recommended:
    • PowerPC G5 or better or Intel Core Duo or Intel Xeon processor or better
    • 2 GB or more RAM

PC

• Operating Systems: Windows XP or Vista
• Hardware:
  • Minimum:
    • Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz processor or AMD Athlon 64 (Turion)
    • 1 GB RAM
  • Recommended:
    • Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz EM64T or better or AMD Athlon 64 3000+ or better
    • 2 GB or more RAM

Windows and Macintosh Systems

• Internet connection
• DVD-ROM drive
• A monitor resolution no lower than 1024x768 pixels