Dolby Atmos Feature In Studio One to make it Competetiive [Completed 6.5]

answered Sep 26, 2023 by Lukas Ruschitzka (261,170 points)

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answered May 19, 2021 by erikhusler (4,510 points)
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It looks like Dolby Atmos is becoming the new, more immersive Stereo. You get your personal Atmos subscription from Dolby if/ when you want, so it wouldn't cost anything for non-users. Similar to S1 being prepared for ARA plugins, but you'd need to get the plugin(s).

What we're asking is for Studio One to get ready for it, like something resembling a path template to easily integrate with Dolby Atmos. An increasing number of albums are being mixed in Atmos, like The Weeknd's latest one. Pro Tools and Nuendo have an integration system to facilitate encoding to the Atmos app. The streaming services are up to par accepting Atmos mixes.

This is what I got attending an internal Epidemic Sound seminar about it this afternoon:

You can get the feel of it using just two speakers or headphones. You can also do renders to binaural (mp3, Wave etc) when sending demos to artists etc. which afaiu reflect the effect nicely. It's a different approach, object based instead of channel based. But you can mix pretty much like usual before sending the channels/ objects on to the Atmos app.

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answered Aug 8, 2021 by emanfu (480 points)
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I made a post not long ago about requesting native surround sound support and Dolby Atmos support. I understand that Studio One is marketed as a Music Production DAW opposed to Post Production but I think this is an essential feature that needs to be added to Studio One Pro because Studio One is such a great DAW but it's 2021 and nearly every major DAW supports at least 5.1 Surround Sound at the very basic level! But for what ever reason Presonus is lagging behind as others are forced to use a separate DAW for Spatial Audio / Immersive Audio Mixing. If not Studio One Pro, Presonus could make a higher grade version of Studio One marketed for the Post Production market.

Dolby Atmos is the future that will soon replace stereo mixing. Nuendo as of version 11.0.3 supports Atmos mixing 100% natively in the box with its own renderer baked into the software which no need for expensive RMU (Rendering Mastering Unit) hardware computer unit with the Dolby Atmos Mastering Suite. As other DAWs are moving fast, Presonus better start adapting before they get left behind. Logic Pro and Ableton Live are also supported for Atmos mixing.

answered Aug 12, 2021 by stephenchristoper (700 points)
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answered Sep 13, 2021 by bryanwilson5 (2,690 points)

answered Oct 19, 2021 by estevancarlosbenson (1,080 points)

answered Oct 21, 2021 by hasanismail (620 points)

I've been expecting some kind of surprise too from Presonus on this sector.

Right after Apple announced its Spatial Audio Macbook Pro release with M1 Pro and Max, they've also released an incredible update to its native DAW Logic Pro. With version 10.7 Logic is now Atmos-enabled with no additional fee or subscription to pay. Definitely a more attractive business model for many if you're already on Apple machines.

As much as I like S1, late entry into the game would mean I have to go back and forth to Logic now for mixdown in Atmos after exporting the stems from S1. If any of my clients wish for Dolby Atmos project from here on, it only make sense that we start from that dedicated DAW.he

I own S1 Pro with Notion from Day 1. And much as I like the features on S1 for compositions and mix, end of the day, the one that gets the job done from start to finish is what I'd be grabbing for the next session.

answered Oct 26, 2021 by bryanwilson5 (2,690 points)

I am also surprised on the radio silence from PreSonus about this much-requested feature for S1. Not only for film/TV scores BUT for MIXING films and TV shows. And also all of these new remixes of classic music in 5.1 and even 7.1 are becoming more popular. And lastly my latest music project is headed to iHeart radio and I was told I now need "spacial/surround sound" for these songs to be distributed properly. Please PreSonus, there has to be a way for this to work and any updates on this feature request would be greatly appreciated. I am also not a fan of having to go between DAWs exporting stems just to accomplish this.

answered Oct 29, 2021 by estevancarlosbenson (1,080 points)

answered Oct 29, 2021 by taylorscott2 (4,270 points)

Yeah what really bugs me is the complete radio silence from Presonus about surround/more Post features/better video implementation/Atmos/etc.

I absolutely love S1 but have been really looking into Nuendo lately. S1 could rule the industry one day if they added more "pro" features...but we don't even know if this is something they are even THINKING about.

I'm probably going to start learning Nuendo soon, and if PreSonus says nothing about these features by 5.5 or 6, I'm going to probably move entirely to Nuendo.

PreSonus - communicate with your user base!

ps - I would TOTALLY pay for an "ultimate" S1 version that included Post features if they offered it. (I know these features can be used for music and not just Post, but you know what I mean)

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answered Feb 25, 2022 by Lukas Ruschitzka (261,170 points)

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I have to go with the majority of the people here : it's high time S1 added Dolby Atmos to its feature list.

Atmos is no longer used solely for (movie) post production; more and more music is being mixed in Atmos. Indeed, Apple Music and Youtube have made Atmos mixes available and this will continue.

Another fact that has been mentioned in the replies here quite frequently, is that most major DAWs now have Atmos : ProTools, of course, and Nuendo both being one of the first ones, as they are still considered the 'industry standard' (although that is a quite obsolete notion these days), but now Logic and Cubase have made the leap as well. And both have had 5.1 Surround mixing capability for many years before that, so there's no longer a valid reason not to make the leap to Atmos. Presonus has put in so much effort to get people to switch to S1 from other DAWs, most notably ProTools, so to not make Atmos available to S1 users - at least those of us who use the Professional version - would mean it would fall behind again. I own Cubase Pro for no other reason than to mix in surround, and it seems a bit silly to have to pay for two DAWs when the one I use on a daily basis could do it all.

The mere fact that there is a Project page in S1 for mastering purposes and the DAW having a video track, points towards S1 not being 'just' a music production DAW, but an all in one music and post production solution. Dolby Atmos would just solidify Studio One's position in that respect. The price shouldn't be an issue, as both Logic and Cubase have illustrated that Atmos can be integrated at no extra costs.

answered Jun 19, 2022 by jghoward (940 points)

I've been mixing in S1 since version 2 and have evangelized it to anyone who cared to listen, but it's getting harder and harder to justify recommending it as a platform for mixing. Every other mix job that's come in from a label has asked me if I can also do a spatial mix, and I've had to abandon using my S1 workflow on several projects in order to not miss out on those gigs.

We need it so badly. I know the marketing around S1 makes it more geared toward music production than audio post, but the reality of it is that you've also created IMO the best and most efficient platform and workflow for the post-production community. It's high time that PreSonus takes this user base more seriously. More and more artists and producers are considering Atmos in the creation and production phase as well, so the longer we go without it, the less S1 looks like a Logic/PT/Nuendo competitor, and the more it looks like it belongs in the Sonar/DP/Bitwig cohort. I want to remain loyal to S1, and I believe the sky is the limit for this product and platform, please take the professional audio post and mixing community seriously. It needs you.

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answered Jan 21, 2023 by yonikesslermusic (180 points)

Bumping this as a newer Studio One user who is prepared to make the full switch completely the second Atmos/surround support is integrated. I do a lot of post production work along with a lot of ambisonics and classical music recording. Right now I have to go into Logic or ProTools, decode my ambisonic files to stereo, and THEN take them into studio one to do my mixing and it's made me stick to PT for that kind of post even if its stereo and to Logic whenever I have to mix classical music recorded with ambisonics. It's especially frustrating because if you bring a quad file into Studio One you will get a quad waveform display but its automatically mixed down to stereo and there's nothing you can do about it besides look at it and say it looks pretty.

Atmos is also coming in waves and Studio One just needs to catch up, I love the program but it needs this functionality for me to be able to recommend it to any of my colleagues in the post world or even the classical world nowadays with how common recording for atmos is becoming.

answered Feb 26, 2023 by shawnrainey (500 points)

As for the arguments saying it would be to exspensive that clearly not true. CUBASE has it natively and they cost 500 dollars for there pro version. I use it when I need to do atmos mixing. Logic that supports dolby atmos natively for just 200 dollars. And even davinci resolve supports atmos natively. there is like 6-8 diffrent daws supporting atmos in one way or another.

Btw I step up my dolby atmos rig with all presonus speakers. And have them hooked up via a patch bay then routing to the studio live 32s console. Where I have set in all the eq correction on the board, and time delays for time alignment. Did the measurements with sonarworks. The only crappy part about using the console is you can't assign the ouput levels to a single VCA .. so u have to move 12 output faders for volume control. Tho the way the atmos render seems to work you can use the master fader in cubase for a monitor control. Cause the atmos rendering happens before that fader. But it would be nice if presonus updated the firmware on the console to do that. And also add atmos to studio one. It needs it badly.