Studio One 6 Review

Studio One 6 was released a couple of days ago. I’ve made an “expectations” Bingo card a few days before the announcement and now that I played with version 6, I can conclude that a few things from my card have materialized but most of them didn’t. At the same time there were several unexpected yet useful additions.

Here’s my video review of Studio One 6 consisting of 6 improvements I really like and also my top 6 missed opportunities in this release:

And here’s a TL;DW list:

6 Highlights

1. Track presets
2. UI customization and scrollbars in inspector
3. Instrument sidechain and overall sidechaining improvements
4. Track/channel icons
5. Popup faders on sends/pan
6. Sends on FX Channels

6 Omissions

1. No VSTs as NoteFX
2. No ATOM SQ/ATOM integration improvements
3. No Impact XT improvements
4. No smarter arranger track
5. No scale highlighting in piano roll
6. No public scripting API