PreSonus Releases Studio One 5.5 DAW Software Update

PreSonus® has released Studio One® 5.5, a major update to its award-winning recording and production software (DAW). Studio One 5.5 adds improvements for production, performance and especially mastering. The first and only DAW with an integrated mastering environment, Studio One 5.5's Project page is now even more powerful. With Studio One 5.5, the Project page now provides full track volume, master volume and insert effect plug-in parameter automation. It allows real-time automation, using a mouse or hardware controller, or using the powerful Paint Tool. Clip gain envelopes have also been added, letting you precisely fix gain problems during mastering, without using dynamics plug-ins. Also new is the Listen Bus, for monitoring through your room correction plug-ins, favorite plug-ins or headphone monitoring tools without affecting the master output. It frees up processing power for complex mastering chains without losing the ability to make adjustments later with Track Transform.

Everything Is New in Studio One 5.5 Professional

The powerful digital release publishing feature in Studio One Professional now offers the ability to export multiple formats at once, so you can export your mastered session as high-resolution releases and for streaming services at the same time.

The new Target Loudness options let you set target values for loudness and true peak during export, or choose from presets for each popular streaming service to take the guesswork out of preparing your latest release. A new, custom-designed, patented interpolation algorithm minimizes the downsides of conversion.

Studio One 5.5 also introduces high-performance production features. Any MIDI file can now be dragged directly onto the Chord track to extract its chords. Studio One's chord detection also works with audio events and instrument parts.

You can now create a strum pattern manually by dragging note events onto a selected chord. In addition, PreSonus's Ampire XT guitar amp/cabinet and pedalboard plug-in, available in Studio One 5.5, adds a streamlined, faster preset change, so you can trigger Ampire presets from a MIDI pedalboard during a live performance without missing a beat.

Other improvements include saving automation with Mix Scenes, so you can experiment with multiple automation passes without losing your work. The powerful Plug-in Nap feature introduced in version 5.4 is now available as a plug-in, giving you even more optimization control. Improvements have also been added for PreSonus ATOM series controllers with Impact XT and SampleOne XT.

* Studio One 5.5 is a free update for registered Studio One 5 users and is included in PreSonus Sphere membership