Version 3 introduces just two new audio effects: a Leslie cabinet emulation called Rotor Audio, and Bit Crusher. Even though you can only have one open at a time, it’s a much neater solution than sticking edits at a random spot down your timeline, or saving versions of projects you may never come back to. Better yet, you can save multiple Scratch Pads in your project that contain different versions of your musical doodling. Say you want to work up an alternative intro, but you’ve always been afraid of messing with your main timeline, now you can drag it to the Scratch Pad, try out your idea and drag it back into your main arrangement if it makes the cut. The idea is to stuff around with your arrangements without any fear of trashing the original project, or confusing the hell out of yourself. You can drag any of your Arrange track section to the Scratch Pad and perform edits in this alternative timeline (cue Doctor Who theme tune). Scratch Pads basically allow you to split the Arrange Window in two, with the Scratch Pad on the right, and main arrangement on the left. It’s rare to see completely new ideas in a DAW update, and Scratch Pad is one of those. It’s like markers that do more than just bump you around the timeline. Even without shuffling parts around, the large and colourful Arranger track is a boon for seeing where you are inside your project.
It’s impressive just how seamlessly these sections can be moved around, including transplanting slices into otherwise whole audio files. It’s a global track that allows whole sections of your song to be labelled - a verse or chorus, for example - then you can shift or copy all regions below it to your heart’s content simply by dragging around sections on the Arrange Track. Studio One’s new Arranger Track comprises labelled, coloured blocks along the timeline with an Inspector list to the left. In the greater scheme of things relating to a DAW upgrade, it’s hard to get excited about an improved Browser, but Studio One’s browser has been given some treatment that streamlines file access and clip auditioning and also includes thumbnails of effects and instruments. Aesthetically it doesn’t do much for me but I imagine it might be very useful for anyone suffering a visual impairment (such as colour blindness) that can be alleviated by removing or enhancing troublesome shades. An overall Hue setting in Options can shift the background colour from subtle to sickly, across the entire spectrum.
Now Studio One has it.Īgain, with the colour options and the improved DPI display you can channel your inner Mondrian with the Arrange View. Some of you will agree that a Mixer View needs a bit of sparkle. It’s changed the Mixer from simply functional to a much more inspiring GUI - yes, call me shallow and I don’t care. The improved GUI has brought variable-sized faders (previously it was simply long or short-throw faders), these colour options and a channel focus.
Don’t freak out over the coloured channels, it’s a new option you can enable and I’ve gone overboard to show you.
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