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New Features and Enhancements in Studio One 2

  • Editing Enhancements

    • Resize adjacent events (bottom of event end/start)
    • Paste notes in Arrangement
    • New contextual menu with icons
      • Event color selector
      • Recent Items menu
    • New snapping modes
      • Relative Grid (snaps to relative position)
      • Event (snaps to other events on the timeline)
      • Cursor and Loop
    • Rename Edit Groups
    • Rename Layers
    • Drag complete crossfade

  • Advanced Audio Editing

    • Strip Silence function via panel
    • Enhanced Comping
      • Comping with Layers
        • Swipe and double-click to copy range to active layer
        • Works across grouped tracks, even when layers in the other tracks are hidden
    • On the fly Transient Detection
      • Snap to event hotspots (transients) in Audio editor
      • Tab to transient via tab key
    • Audio Bend
      • Add markers from offline Transient Detection
      • Add markers
      • Move markers
      • Delete markers
      • Reset Bend markers
      • Multitrack editing with phase lock
      • Bend tool
      • Bend panel for bend functions and settings per selected event

  • Groove Quantize

    • Create Groove Templates via drag-and-drop onto Quantize menu
    • Groove Template presets
      • in user Preset folder
      • create via drag-and-drop onto Browser
      • Create Instrument Part from Templates when dragging on empty Instrument Track

  • Track List

    • Expand folders
    • Expand layers
    • Expand automation
    • Move Tracks
    • Hide/Show Tracks

  • Folder Tracks

    • Bus/output macro selector for tracks in folder
      • Add bus with folder name
    • Acts as effects drop target for selected bus/output
    • Can hold automation envelops
    • Acts as a Group creator
      • Changes group name if folder name is changed

  • Instrument Tracks

    • Selectable instrument-output assignment
    • VST output-channel selector
    • Instrument Track transform (Audio <-> Instrument)
    • Input monitoring follows selection

  • Transform Audio and Instrument Tracks to rendered audio
  • Inspector Enhancements

    • Track Inspector
      • Channel controls
      • Instrument Track <> Instrument Output Channel selector
    • Event Inspector
      • Gain
      • Fade in
      • Fade out
      • Velocity (Instrument)

  • Event Effects via Inspector
    • Render (optional Tail)
  • Mixer Enhancements

    • Narrow mode
    • Mono switch for outputs
    • Pan numerical-entry field
    • Outputs container

  • Instrument Track Editor

    • Split tool for notes / Deep Split for Instrument Parts
    • Select Track menu
    • Multiple Instrument Track edit
      • Uses track colors
      • Edit List
        • Track Select
        • Hide Show option
        • Edit Active option

  • Editor

    • Detachable editor
    • Scale in Audio editor (percentage and dB)

  • Audio Parts

    • Create Audio-Part Music Loops (drag to File Browser)
    • Dissolve Audio parts
    • Play overlaps option
    • Export to Browser (audio loop)

  • Music Loops

    • Instrument preset
    • FLAC audio
    • Multichannel preset chains
    • Music file
    • Export via drag-and-drop to Browser

  • Browser Enhancements

    • Search
      • Show in context
      • Show in Explorer
    • Drag external folder to create new location
    • Split multichannel files
    • Merge L/R mono files to stereo
    • Convert to audio loop
    • Convert to Wave file
    • Home menu
    • Pool
      • Expand takes
      • Drag takes to arrangement

  • FX header

    • New GUI with tabs
    • FX Preset functions
      • Copy
      • Paste
      • Compare (compares to last Song save)

  • Listen Tool
  • Transport

    • MIDI Monitor shows MIDI output
    • Enhanced Performance Monitor
      • List Plugins with individual Performance cost
      • Sortable by columns headers
    • New Loop commands
      • Set Loop Start command
      • Set Loop End command
      • Shift Loop command
      • Shift Loop Backward command
    • Advanced MIDI options
      • Chase long notes
      • Cut long notes

  • Zoom

    • Zoom to Selection Toggles command
    • Zoom Selected Track command
    • Zoom to all content
    • Key commands for zoom height

  • Options
    • Copy external files when saving dialog in location options
    • Autosave interval-time setting

Start Page

  • All Songs and Projects list (scans user-document folder)
  • Sticky option in Recent Files list

Project Page

  • DDP Export
  • Independent track markers (CD tracks)
  • Activate All switch for Master and Track effects
  • Split tool
  • Loudness Analysis for Input Tracks

Effects

  • Analog Delay
    • Boost option
  • Beat Delay
    • Delay offset
  • Phaser
    • Spread delays
  • Ampire XT

    • New amp and speaker models
    • Stomp FX section
      • Wah-wah
      • Tube driver
      • Modulation
      • Pan
      • Tremolo
      • Delay
      • Reverb

  • Open AIR (convolution reverb)
    • New
    • create reverb from impulse responses of hardware devices or real spaces
  • IR Maker
    • New
    • create impulse responses from hardware devices
  • Mixtool
    • DC offset blocker
  • Dual Pan
    • New

      • Input balance
      • selectable Pan law
      • L/R pan
      • Link option

  • Tone Generator
    • New

      • generate basic waveforms
      • Wobble function
      • MIDI in Gate function

Instruments

  • Mojito
    • Sub Oscillator
    • Filter Drive
  • Impact

    • Sample Offset Start/End
    • Note Assign per Pad (Learn function, click in Note and press on keyboard)
    • Select next or previous sample in folder
    • Playback modes
      • One Shot Overlapped
      • One Shot
      • Note On/Off (Gate)
      • Toggle
      • Synced

  • Sample One
    • Select next or previous sample in folder