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Whether you’re a Grammy-winning producer or just getting started making music, there’s a version of Studio One® that’s right for you. Studio One comes in three flavors: Artist, our flagship Professional version, and Prime, a fully functioning free version. There’s no subscription model with Studio One, so you know what you’re getting today but you can customize it with Add-on features and content as your needs grow.
| General |  Studio One Prime |
 Studio One Artist |
 Studio One Professional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start page | • | • | • |
| Song page | • | • | • |
| Project page (Mastering, DDP, Red Book CD burning, digital release) | • | ||
| Elegant single-window work environment | • | • | • |
| Powerful drag-and-drop functionality | • | • | • |
| Native high-DPI and cross-platform multi-touch user interface | • | • | • |
| Unlimited audio tracks, MIDI tracks, virtual instruments, and FX channels | • | • | • |
| Unlimited buses | • | • | |
| Integrated Melodyne pitch correction | Trial | • | |
| Single and multitrack comping | • | • | • |
| Arranger Track | • | • | • |
| Scratch Pads | • | ||
| Chord Track and Harmonic Editing | • | ||
| Editable Folder Tracks | • | • | |
| Track display list with presets, linkable to console channel display | • | • | • |
| Content browser with search, user tabs, connections to the Internet, and Preview Player | • | • | • |
| Transient detection with editable markers | • | • | |
| Drag-and-drop groove extraction | • | • | |
| Multitrack MIDI editing | • | • | • |
| Instrument and Drum Editor | • | • | • |
| Drum and melodic patterns for pattern-based arranging | • | • | • |
| Multitrack Track Transform (advanced freezing capability) | • | • | • |
| Event-based effects | • | • | |
| Macro Toolbar (create and use command sequences) | • | • | |
| Automatic latency compensation | • | • | • |
| Dropout Protection for native low latency monitoring | • | • | • |
| Advanced automation | • | • | • |
| VCA faders | • | • | |
| Audio-processing resolution (floating-point) | 32-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit |
| Easy sidechain routing | • | • | • |
| Stunning virtual instruments | Presence XT only | 5 | 5 |
| Easy-to-use drag-and-drop live sampler (Sample One XT) | • | • | |
| Import sampler formats (EXS, GigaSampler, Kontakt, SoundFont) | • | ||
| Multi Instruments | • | ||
| Channel Editor with macro controls | • | ||
| Extended FX Chains with parallel processing | • | ||
| Control Link (most intuitive MIDI-mapping system available) | • | • | • |
| Real-time audio time-stretching, resampling, and normalization | • | • | • |
| Compatible with any ASIO-, Windows Audio-, or Core Audio-compliant audio interfaces | • | • | • |
| Use Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, or Sonar keyboard shortcuts—or create your own | • | • | • |
| Integrated mastering suite with automatic mix updating, DDP import/export, Red Book CD burning, and digital release | • | ||
| Send Song or individual tracks to Notion (audio + note data) | • | • | |
| Export to SoundCloud™ | • | • | |
| AAF (Advanced Authoring Format) import and export | • | ||
| Import Song data | • | ||
| Video playback and sync | • | ||
| Video export | • | ||
| MP3 encoding and decoding | • | • | • |
| M4A (AAC / ALAC) encoding and decoding | • | • | • |
| NEW: Exchange 2.0 | • | • | |
| Third-party plug-in support (AU, VST2, and VST3 plug-ins and ReWire applications) | (Add-on available) | • | |
| Hardware I/O Support | 2/2 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Native Effects™ Plug-ins |
Type | Studio One Prime |
Studio One Artist |
Studio One Professional |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ampire | State Space-modeled guitar amp simulator | Basic | Basic | • |
| Analog Delay | Tape delay emulator | • | • | |
| Arpeggiator | Note FX arpeggiator with pattern sequencer | • | ||
| Auto Filter | Envelope-controlled filter | • | • | |
| Beat Delay | Tempo-synched delay | • | • | • |
| Binaural Pan | Stereo panner and imager | • | • | |
| Bitcrusher | Lo-fi and downsampling processor | • | • | |
| Channel Strip | Compressor / expander / equalizer | • | • | • |
| Chorder | Note FX chord processor | • | ||
| Chorus | Three-voice chorus with stereo width | • | • | • |
| Compressor | Full-featured RMS compressor with side-chain | • | • | |
| Console Shaper | Mix Engine FX analog console emulation | • | ||
| Dual Pan | Independent L/R channel panner | • | • | |
| Expander | Downward expander with sidechain | • | • | |
| Fat Channel XT | Native version of StudioLive Fat Channel | • | • | |
| Flanger | Flanger with tempo sync | • | • | • |
| Gate | Noise gate with MIDI trigger outp | • | • | |
| Groove Delay | Multi-tap delay with tempo sync and tap filtering | • | ||
| Input Filter | Note FX filter for velocity and key range | • | • | • |
| IR Maker | Impulse response creation utility | • | ||
| Level Meter | Resizable, multi-scale loudness / level meter | • | • | |
| Limiter | Brickwall peak limiter | • | • | |
| Mixtool | Channel utility | • | • | |
| MixVerb™ | Basic reverb | • | • | • |
| Multiband Dynamics | Multiband compressor/expander | • | ||
| Open AIR | Convolution reverb | • | ||
| Pedalboard | State Space-modeled guitar pedals | Basic | Basic | • |
| Phaser | Multistage allpass-filter phaser | • | • | • |
| Phase Meter | Phase analyzer | • | • | |
| Pipeline | External-processor insert | • | ||
| Pro EQ | Seven-band parametric equalizer | • | • | |
| RedlightDist™ | Analog distortion emulator | • | • | • |
| Repeater | Note FX delay with transpose | • | ||
| Room Reverb | Room simulator | • | • | |
| Rotor | Rotary speaker emulator | • | • | |
| Scope | Digital oscilloscope | • | • | |
| Spectrum Meter | Spectrum meter | • | • | |
| Tone Generator | Multi-waveform signal generator | • | • | |
| Tricomp™ | Basic multiband compressor | • | • | |
| Tuner | Chromatic instrument tuner | • | • | • |
| X-Trem | Tremolo/autopanner with tempo sync and step sequence modulation | • | • | |
| Total Native Effects™ Plug-ins | 10 | 32 | 41 | |
| Virtual Instruments | Type | Studio One Prime |
Studio One Artist |
Studio One Professional |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mojito | Monophonic subtractive synthesizer | • | • | |
| Mai Tai | Polyphonic virtual analog synth | (Add-on) | • | • |
| Impact XT | Multichannel drum sampler | • | • | |
| Sample One XT | Drag-and-drop integrated live sampler | • | • | |
| Presence XT | Sample playback instrument | • | • | • |
| Support for third-party sampler format (EXS, Giga, Kontakt) | • | |||
| Total Virtual Instruments | 1 | 5 | 5 | |
| Bundled Content | Size | Studio One Prime |
Studio One Artist |
Studio One Professional |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melodyne Essential | 120 MB | Trial | • | |
| Prime Selection Loops and Sounds | 785 MB | • | • | • |
| Presence XT Core Library | 15 GB | • | ||
| Impact XT Core Library | 1.8 GB | • | • | |
| Acoustic Drum Kits and Loops | 1.5 GB | • | ||
| Producer Loops and Kits (BigFishAudio, Sample Magic, MVP Loops) | 3.76 GB | • | ||
| Electronic Audioloops | 3.17 GB | • | ||
| Electronic Kits and Musicloops | 294 MB | • | ||
| Studio One FX | 546 MB | • | ||
| Studio One Impulse Responses | 1.19 GB | • | ||
| Studio One Instruments Vol. 1+2 | 1.68 GB | • | • | • |
| Studio One Musicloops 1+2 | 900 MB | • | • | |
| Studio One Expansion | 39 MB | • | • | |
| Ueberschall Impact Drums | 68 MB | • | ||
| Vengeance Sound | 880 MB | • | ||
| Voodoo One Synth Soundset | 900 MB | • | • |
