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Home » Video Review: What Makes PreSonus Studio One 4 Pro a Top Audio DAW Choice?

Video Review: What Makes PreSonus Studio One 4 Pro a Top Audio DAW Choice?

Image: Alex Scott wants you to rethink your DAW.

Is it time to check out a new digital audio workstation? In the following video, Alex Scott thinks so. To start, the musician and sound engineer points out that today there are a dizzying number of choices among DAWs that you should be considering besides old standards like Pro Tools, Logic Pro X or even GarageBand. Today, with more useful approaches to layout, filter families and more, you might try out apps like Ableton, Studio One, FL Studio, Reaper, Cubase, Nuendo, and Audacity.

How do you – beginner, expert, or just in between – decide upon a best choice? What if you go with one of the legacy DAWs? That old code base might be limiting you more than you realize.

We have one suggestion. Spend some time looking over Presonus’ impressive DAW with Alex Scott. Scott is a Denver-based multi-talent – touring musician, recording engineer, and music producer- who dives in to review the latest audio apps and hardware. After many years as an Apple Logic Pro user, he explains some of the unique features of Presonus’s Studio One, capabilities which led him to embrace the DAW as his post audio tool of choice.

Presonus’ Studio One V4.5 offers a comprehensive single window environment.

Why Studio One?

What’s to like? A comprehensive, single-window work environment with quick and easy drag-and-drop functionality. That approach is ideal for a new generation of widescreen monitors such as Viewsonic’s gorgeous ultra-wide 34-inch VP3481 (look for our upcoming review).

You can run Studio One on both PC and Mac, you’ll find its arranger track very useful, there’s an ample number of audio editing features, including some of the best processing plugins around. Finally, there’s excellent integration with audio control surfaces and hardware, and a potent “Artist” version priced very inexpensively if you want to see what all the fuss is about.

About Alex

Alex Scott is a professional bassist, drummer and producer based out of Denver, CO. He performs and tours regularly with a wide variety of groups, having the honor of working with members of Blues Traveler, Thievery Corporation, Ween, Blood Sweat and Tears and is one of members of consordini.com team.

For more information on Alex Scott, find him on Cosordini (https://consordini.com)

Here’s a link to Alex’s review on YouTube http://bit.ly/2JnjJY1

NYCPPNEWS’ own Joe Herman was wowed by an earlier version of Presonus’ Studio One – as well as the company’s Notion 6 and PSO – all of which you can read about on our site by clicking this link.

About Dan Ochiva

New York City-based journalist and NYCPPNEWS founder Dan Ochiva writes and consults on film, video, and digital media technology.

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NAB Looks Toward In-Person 2021 Show

The National Association of Broadcasters said it has done research that shows there is growing sense that the 2021 NAB Show could be an in-person convention this October.

Not surprisingly, NAB said that the availability of a vaccine for COVID-19 will be the biggest influencer (for three in five respondents) in whether to attend an in-person event.

To read the full article on Broadcasting + Cable, click here.

 

Rupert Neve, the Father of Modern Studio Recording, Dies at 94

When the Seattle grunge band Nirvana recorded their breakthrough album, “Nevermind,” at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, Calif., in 1991, they used a massive mixing console created by a British engineer named Rupert Neve.

The Neve 8028 console and others he made had by then become studio staples, hailed by many as the most superior consoles of their kind in manipulating and combining instrumental and vocal signals. They were responsible in great part for the audio quality of albums by groups like Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Grateful Dead, and Pink Floyd.

Read the full obit in the New York Times.

New York City Movie Theaters Can Reopen at Limited Capacity, Gov. Cuomo Says

After nearly a year of closures, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has given movie theaters in New York City permission to reopen at limited capacity starting on March 5.

During his daily press briefing, the Empire State leader said cinemas in the city will be permitted to operate at 25% capacity, with no more than 50 people. Moreover, other safety measures such as masks, social distancing, and heightened sanitizing measures will be required. Last October, New York venues outside of the city were allowed to reopen with similar restrictions.

To read the full article in Variety, click here.

Stimulus Offers $15 Billion in Relief for Struggling Arts Venues

The coronavirus relief package that Congressional leaders agreed to this week includes grant money that many small proprietors described as a last hope for survival.

For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suffered through the pandemic with no business, the coronavirus relief package that Congress passed on Monday night offers the prospect of aid at last.

To read the full article on The New York Times’ site, click here.

If you want to start production, here’s the latest news from the Mayor’s Office

Phase 4 production guidance is available on the Film Permit website. All production activity, whether it requires a Film Permit or not, must comply with New York Forward Industry Guidance.

For more information see, please refer to the State Department of Health’s Interim Guidance for Media Production During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Please review the guidelines and FAQ before submitting permit applications. The Film Office is operating remotely, so please allow additional time for Film Permit processing.

The above paragraphs contain links to the various FAQ – just mouse over the relevant words.

Amazon Prime Video Direct and the Dystopian Decision to Stop Accepting Docs


Chris Lindahl and Dana Harris-Bridson outlined Amazon’s position in IndieWire: “When Amazon made a unilateral decision in early February to stop accepting documentaries and short films via Prime Video Direct (a policy that also covers ‘slide shows, vlogs, podcasts, tutorials, filmed conferences, monologues, toy play, music videos, and voiceover gameplay’), the announcement also served as a quiet purge.

The above continues on to some surprising conclusions on DOC NYCs Monday Memo, 

Disney to Close Upstate Blue Sky Studios

Various sources have reported that Disney is in the process of shuttering Blue Sky Studios, the largest animation studio on the East coast. The former 20th Century Fox animation division pulled in $5.9 billion churning out 13 feature films including the Ice Age franchise.

Publications have noted how Disney – which had three animation studios including Pixar and Disney Animation – couldn’t make the case to have these many houses when the pandemic took a toll on the company’s profits.

Some 450 employees will lose their jobs, though some hope to get into one of Disney’s other animation houses.

Here’s Deadline’s report.

Here’s Variety’s report.

Epix Announces ‘Godfather of Harlem’ Season 2 Premiere Date

Epix revealed that the second season of “Godfather of Harlem” will premiere on April 18. Set in 1964, the crime drama series explores the collision of the criminal underworld and civil rights movement. The second season will follow Bumpy Johnson (Forest Whitaker) battling the New York crime families for control of the French Connection, a pipeline for heroin that runs from Marseilles to New York Harbor.

To read the full Variety article, click here.

Sony’s FX3 is a compact $3,900 camera for filmmakers

Sony has announced the FX3. As expected, the camera is essentially an A7S III with features from the company’s Cinema line crammed into a body that looks like the A7C. Its backside-illuminated full-frame sensor has an effective resolution of 10.2-megapixel when shooting video and 15 stops of dynamic range.

To read the full story on Engadget, click here.

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