Question

Pro Tools has the option to hold down SHIFT while clicking on a session name on the main page and the session will open with all plugins disabled! That was utterly critical in troubleshooting plugin issues at times when sessions would freeze during loading.

I've only been using S1 for a few years now, but yesterday I upgraded Melodyne 4 Editor to 5 Studio, opened a session, and it froze while doing some Melodyne work. After that, every time I tried to open any session that had an instance of Melodyne, it would freeze  at the "Loading Melodyne... xx%" stage. At that point, I realized there was no way with S1 to open a session with all plugins disabled. Seems like a rather simple and useful feature to add.

Answer 1

"there was no way with S1 to open a session with all plugins disabled. Seems like a rather simple and useful feature to add."

not totally correct - go to Services, disable AU, VST, and VST3 support, then reopen Studio One.

There isn't a one-step simple "Safe Mode" like Cubase tho

Answer 2

this feature was added in 5.2 if someone can mark as completed