Question

Here are a couple of suggestions for futur Studio one releases.

1. More icons many more. Icons for various types of fx live reverb, delay or side chain process. At least 2 or 3 different guitar shapes. A Strat, a Tele, a Les Paul, a flying v. Why not. More Synths icons for pads, pluck sounds, bells and others. More icons for floor toms.

2. The abilities to mute midi playback for a track without entirely muting the track so that we can try something different that what recorded by midi on the track

3. Upgrade de look of the stock plugins. Some of them are very very good but they look dated and not inventing. The EQ plugin for exemple which is one the best that I have used now that it is dynamic. I use everywhere but the graphic eq curves are small compared to the Izotope or Fabfilter EQs. Same with the standard comp, reverbs and modulation. They lack personality.

4. A way to disable completely the abilities to expand the plugin quick control. This is more annoying than anything else and I never use it. I prefer to clic and open the plugin entirely.

Answer 1

FEATURE ONE: I have another feature request.  I am a newbie with Studio One 6.5; however, for my own personal reasons I am considering a move to Studio One 6.5;  I have been using Cakewalk in all incarnations since 1995. There are some features in there that are not in Studio One, and would be extremely useful.   Track-Templates.  I've searched, discussed with AIs bots on line to determine if this exists in Studio One, or not.  

Track Templates (the way cakewalk does it):

1) open an empty session

2) add tracks for your instrument, attach the sends, the auxes, and all the full routing, load the plugin chains to the track set all the plugin presets etc.  (this can be midi or audio)

3) when I load an instrument plugin, it asks :
    a) do you want a track for each output from the instrument plugin (stereo or mono)
    b) do you want those tracks to be displayed in a Track Folder (organizing them into groups, and the ablilty to have subgroups (and sub folders)

4) setup up all the tracks as you would normally use them, with the plugins, set with all signal the routing, with the Aux tracks, sends, and the mix buss

5) select all tracks, and the folder (if you have one containing all those tracks, plugins and signal routine

6) setup all the color schemes you want to use

7) export as a Track-Template.

8) repeat this process for each instrument (like AD2, NeuralDSP, Arturia, Omnisphere etc).

Then Open a brand new Blank (default) project/song/session

Import a Track Template previously defined and built ready to go and it appears exactly with plugins loaded, all presets set, all send routing to auxes and Busses, any or all outputs from the VSTi Instrument.  Everything necessary , to arm and record. in literally one click to import the Track Template (track set/folder set of tracks) all ready to use and record.

Decide, Oh, I need an Omnipshere Set of tracks.. (or whatever other instrument in your libraries)

select Import Track Template, select the one you like, and it appears all ready to go, ready to arm, all routing sends auxes and mix busses in the signal routing all plugins, FX and their presets are set.

One click, arm and ready to record.

This is the single FASTEST way to start a new song, and import the track templates you want for your song/project. example I always use stereo split tracks and sends/auxes FX for using NeuralDSP guitar modelers and EQ and parallel compression etc.  So I can load my track-template set of all that, and the plugins and routing, add a reference track, and start recording. I repeat this process each new project.  Just 1 click.

ITEM 2:  Tempo Mapping:  I have heard from sources that Studio One can do it, and some sources say it cannot do it.. Doing tempo mapping, in say Pro Tools is an arduous measure by measure process.. Not fun.

again, coming from the Cakewalk world; they were the First to adopt ARA, and they worked closely with Celemony (melodyne) to implement it into the first DAW.   Melodyne can do tempo mapping.   I've heard Studio One 6.5 can do this process.  In cakewalk, all I have to do is import a reference audio track (or one I created free-form), select it or a selection within it, then drag and drop the clip onto the time ruler, and in a few seconds, it creates a complete global I(song/session/project) tempo map that all subsequent tracks will follow.

I don't know how well, or if Studio One can do this, but if Studio One 6.5 in fact has ARA technology built in, this is absolutely possible to do, it saves you many steps..

Studio One 6.5 advertises great workflow abilities and is quite popular; Cakewalk has been looked at as the '******* sister" in the DAW world, sadly.  But these two ITEMS for feature enhancements will cut work flow processes to a minimal number of "CLICKS" so we can get down to recording and making music.. the idea of workflow, is for it to not hinder making music but making it faster and more efficient.

I hope to see some of this taken very seriously.  Music Production composition and recording takes time to produce, but having to spend a lot of time configuring your session, is arduous, and without a visual representation to show your signal routing in an organized chart, you have to hunt down and find your signal path issues (and we Always have that happen).   Production time costs money and time saved is money earned.

Thanks in advance for reading and considering these feature requests. I was an aerospace engineer for 30 years, now in a recording studio.    I couldn't' figure out where else to post this, this is my Question, not an answer to the question I found.

Byl S.