Studio One vs Bitwig Studio

The Studio One DAW doesn't expect users to deal with a lot of windows, answer questions, or use the mouse excessively. This DAW is known for lettings users be creative without getting in the way.

All components are laid out in an understandable fashion and almost everything is drag and drop.

The Real Melodyne is integrated in the actual DAW. No other DAW is set up to streamline Melodyne.

Hovering over different parts of the events in the arrange window activates different tools.

Use the 'scratch pad' work on multiple versions for your song without leaving the main window.

Works great with interfaces, and doesn't fight with ASIO drivers.

When a plugin takes time to process a sound, the Studio One DAW detects the gap and compensates.

Performance is rock solid and very efficient, even on lower spec computers.

Possible to use key commands from Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, etc.

Chord track can be used by inserting chords or getting them from an inserted track.

Studio one has a page dedicated specifically to mastering which can be very useful when trying to finish your song.

When bouncing from MIDI to audio, a new track won't be created, the clip will stay in the same place. When bouncing a specific part of a MIDI clip, it will be placed in a new track.

Vocalign Project is can be integrated with the option to upgrade to Vocalign Pro.

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This view is very powerful because it not only “shows” the MIDI notes as a score, but it also lets you add, edit and remove notes in standard music notation. It includes all the formatting rules, articulations, note values, clefs and general symbols from Presonus’ Notion software.

Allows you to go from the studio to the stage or stream with other musicians through the interface. You can create a Setlist using your Songs created in Studio One, and combine them with a mix of live instruments, pre-recorded tracks, and virtual instruments.

Each song in the Setlist can have its own unique instrumentation. Songs in your set can be rearranged on the fly using drag-and-drop, and any element from your Song files can be added to your Show via simple copy-and-paste or direct export.

Switching to Performance view with a meter and customisable control over each parameter, means you can adjust in real-time while on Stage.

Can't complain about Studio One so much. It is almost perfect.

Have you ever wanted a delay on just a word or so. No need to automate or move to a separate track. No need to print it to the clip and run out of room on the audio file. Simply amazing feature.

Clip Gain Envelopes represent a new layer of gain introduced in Studio One 5, which is independent from the audio event as well as the volume automation. This feature is ideal for applying gain correction before the signal hits the inserts, specially useful when dealing with extremely dynamic vocal tracks and sections in general that are too soft or too loud.

The user can create breakpoints within the clip by clicking on the curve, and then dragging either up or down in order to increment or reduce the clip’s gain. These gain modifications will be shown on the waveform.

The process is simple, fast, and extremely effective.

Retrospective Recording captures everything you play on your keyboard or controller—even without hitting record! It works invisibly in the background on a track-by-track basis.

Managing large projects with a huge track and channel count is now faster and easier than ever with the addition of powerful search and filter options.

View minutes:seconds with bars and beats at the same time! A must for film composers.

Software of Studio One plus cloud storage and packs, and a lot of other stuff included just for a tiny fee each month or year.

They now support surround . in version 6.5.

Area to arrange all your tracks without touching the main arrangement.

Studio One doesnt wait putting big features until a major updates comes.

It's the lightest DAW there is, Studio One is less than 400mb.

Makes use of the Seaboard, Linnstrument, Continuum and other modern expressive controllers.

The easiest DAW to do automation in. All you have to do is press record and start moving knobs, and that's it.

The ability to run two sequencers at the same time, while swapping out sounds gives you great flexibility to complete a song.

This software has big, responsive, easy-to-handle controls that work really well on a touchscreen. Additionally, it has a tablet mode that re-organizes the UI to make it much simpler and perfect for smaller screen devices. This is both a mobile touchscreen app and a DAW at the same time! It even has a built-in keyboard/drumpad.

The Bitwig DAW runs on Mac, PC, and, Linux. This DAW also has the distinction of being one of the only DAWs that can run 32 bit and 64 bit plugins at the same time.

Being able to add multiple midi instruments on the same track is a nice feature. It allows for much easier setup for VSTs like Cthulhu. It's also nice to be able to have multiple instruments setup that can be toggled.

There is an instrument called Sampler which can correctly load sf2 instruments as a multisample preserving all individual sub sample settings and zoning. You do NOT need a VST to play soundfonts and you don't need to extract the sf2 samples! This is unique among all popular DAWs.

Create any style synth, wavetable, fm, analog, and fx in the grid.

Plugins can be sandboxed.