![]() What’s nice is that Studio One gathers all these words into a Lyrics Display and highlights them as the song plays back. ![]() It’s not lining the syllables up with beats or notes or anything at this stage, this is purely putting a line in at the start of a bar or when it comes in. Studio One will see each line in the song as a separate event and you can hit a key combination during playback to snap each line to the right place. If you have your lyrics in a text file, then you can drag and drop that directly onto the Lyrics track and they’ll get automatically extracted. With the Lyrics track active you can add words into the timeline just as you would with a Marker track. This is in the increasingly crowded section at the top of the arrange page where you can currently display Arranger, Marker, Chord, Time Signature and Tempo tracks, a Ruler, and the new Video track, which we’ll come onto in a minute. The first place they appear is as a Global Lyrics Track. While being able to enter lyrics is not particularly innovative, the way PreSonus have baked it into the workflow is well thought out. It’s not very surprising because the recent addition of score writing and the potential of the Show Page all lead towards the need for words. Thankfully that’s not an AI powered song word generator, but it’s more than adding text under your notes. One innovation introduced by Studio One 6 is a lyrical engine. It will literally show you how to start producing beats, if that’s what you want, and point you to video tutorials if you still need more help. It’s like you’re being warmly invited to try something out, which is so much better than staring at a blank project wondering what to do first. I’m sure they’ll be annoying to seasoned users but to newbies these are excellent. PreSonus call them Smart Templates I wonder what that means? It could mean the inclusion of brilliant little tutorials that talk you through a few steps of what you’re probably going to be doing. But with Studio One’s new Track Presets and Customisation (which we’ll come to) this is more detailed and intentional. When you load the Template, you get a version of Studio One tailored to that scenario with a couple of tracks loaded and plug‑ins ready to go in a similar way as to before. ![]() Often, I’m dipping into Studio One to play something, or do a quick recording and these templates get me right there without having to start from a completely blank project and without having to commit to the style of music I’m producing. What immediately impressed me about them was how quickly they got me to what I wanted to do. Once selected you have some options on the right to add audio files or make further choices. They incorporate the Song, Project and Show pages without having to specifically separate them. The choices are colourful and inviting with options like Record and Mix, Master and Release, Rehearse and Perform, Play Now, Record Now, Create Content and Produce Beats. PreSonus have now replaced these slightly patronising styles with ‘Templates’ that make a lot more sense. Each style would load up a selection of relevant tracks and plug‑ins ready for that particular style of music making. These were called things like Band Recording, House/Techno, Piano Ballad, Podcast Production and so on. Previously when you hit ‘New’ you’d get a window offering you a list of ‘Styles’ for different song scenarios. They’ve modernised the option toolbar across the top, so it looks a little bit less Windows 95 and a tad groovier. Studio One 6 starts up in a very familiar way. Change is risky, let’s see if it’s worth the gamble. In version 6 PreSonus have brought in some good stuff, expanded into much needed stuff, and messed with the thing that they’re most proud of: the interface. It desires to be all things to all people while filling out the back catalogue with things you may have missed along the way. Studio One is both an innovator and an assimilator of features. It’s been interesting to observe the development, the movement and evolution from a position of catch‑up to a place where it pushes the DAW paradigm into interesting places. I’ve been reviewing Studio One and writing the monthly workshops for Sound On Sound since version 4. PreSonus’ DAW software continues to grow and improve as it reaches version 6.
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