New features and improvements:
Project Page
● Track Automation
● Clip Gain Envelopes
● Listen Bus
● Track Transform
● Multiple format export for Digital Release
● Target Loudness on Digital Release
● Tab to rename Tracks
● Option to replace audio on Track
● Default track pause is now set to 0 for new Projects
Show Page
● Detached Performance View for dual monitor use

Workflow and Performance
● Automation included in Mix Scenes
● Plug-in Nap option per plug-in
● Remote control Impact XT / Sample One XT sample editors with ATOM SQ and ATOM
● Copy/Paste pads in Impact XT
● Drag & Drop MIDI files to Chord Track
● Chord Selector: new 2, b5 and #5 intervals (tensions)
● Create strum pattern by dragging notes
● Draw vertical stacks of notes
● Manual time stretching by adjusting Event start
● Option to Snap Event End to grid
● Ampire – faster preset switching
● Limit of simultaneously added tracks increased to 500

General
● New state-of-the-art dithering algorithm
● Improved handling of plug-in processing errors
● Support for Opus audio file format
● Plug-in list in Diagnostics Report
● Display plug-in name and slot on Automation Tracks
● Support for Steinberg CC121 and Tascam Model 12

New Commands
● Project Page - Transform to Rendered Audio
● Project Page - Transform to Real Time Audio
● Score - Toggle Note or Rest

The following issues have been fixed:
● [Ampire] Noise when disabling/enabling Plug-in Nap
● [Apple Silicon] Certain AU Plug-ins are not tempo-synced
● [Audio Editor] Audio Events may disappear when Gain Envelopes are enabled
● [Mixer] Black screen artifacts when large/small fader button is toggled in fullscreen mode
● [Mixer] VST3 instruments sub-outs not added on activation
● [Pedalboard] Phase parameter in Modulation Pedal has wrong tooltip
● [Project Page] Showing LU instead of LUFS on recall
● [Project Page] "Show/Hide Loudness" doesn't expand after detection
● [Project Page] Changing gain from the context menu in a project doesn't trigger "Update Loudness"
● [Sample One] [Impact XT] Scroll to loop end does not work reliably
● [Show Page] Crash in Performance View when executing transport and locate commands
● [Show Page] Instrument Track input doesn't save the 'None' state
● “666” error on processing particular Audio Events
● Can't remove VocAlign from Event FX
● Certain templates not showing Note Editor window
● Data zoom resets on timeline position change
● Dragging notes in Editor is slow when automation lanes are displayed
● Double-click on unselected Track doesn't locate cursor
● Filtering many Tracks by name is slow
● Manual time stretch does not stop playback when Event is not under playhead any more
● Notion Sequencer Overlay view remains visible once transferred to Studio One
● Potential crash when dragging window to second monitor
● Render Instrument Track does not work for Chord Track manipulation
● Removing a layer from a grouped track no longer removes all layers across the group
● SoundCloud may drop its connection after a certain time
● Track numbers in tracklist > 999 are cut off

 

Last edited: Jan 11, 2022

It's weird they decided to release it in January. If I remember correctly, they used to make .5 and .0 versions at the end of May or at the beginning of June.

I hope it doesn't mean they gonna do "one paid update every year" scheme.

 

Release dates.
27th Sep 2009 1.0.0
28th Apr 2010 1.5.0
31st Oct 2011 2.0.0
2nd Dec 2012 2.5.0
20th May 2015 3.0.0
23rd May 2017 3.5.0
22nd May 2018 4.0.0
21st May 2019 4.5.0
7th Jul 2020 5.0.0

I seem to remember that its only major release updates you pay for, all minor ones are free.
So 5.5.0 should be free.

 

Yep, I know. I mean that they could switch to major-minor-major-minor update schedule, where major comes every year, and in between those two majors one minor update(.5).

 

Where does it say an update will be released? All I see is that an announcement will be made which could be anything.

 

The biggest question is if they gonna change their name from PreSonus to Fender

 

nah, i don't think so. what will happen is one of those sennheiser-neumann cases, where the bigger one bought the smaller one and let it operate freely, they just were there to collect the money

 

cool stuff I wonder what they add or fix

 

No major 7th?

 

Last edited: Jan 11, 2022

PreSonus Studio One 5.5 - First Look - YouTube

 

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Version 5.5 Release Notes (January 11, 2022):

New features and improvements:

Project Page
● Track Automation
● Clip Gain Envelopes
● Listen Bus
● Track Transform
● Multiple format export for Digital Release
● Target Loudness on Digital Release
● Tab to rename Tracks
● Option to replace audio on Track
● Default track pause is now set to 0 for new Projects

Show Page
● Detached Performance View for dual monitor use

Workflow and Performance
● Automation included in Mix Scenes
● Plug-in Nap option per plug-in
● Remote control Impact XT / Sample One XT sample editors with ATOM SQ and ATOM
● Copy/Paste pads in Impact XT
● Drag & Drop MIDI files to Chord Track
● Chord Selector: new 2, b5 and #5 intervals (tensions)
● Create strum pattern by dragging notes
● Draw vertical stacks of notes
● Manual time stretching by adjusting Event start
● Option to Snap Event End to grid
● Ampire – faster preset switching
● Limit of simultaneously added tracks increased to 500

General
● New state-of-the-art dithering algorithm
● Improved handling of plug-in processing errors
● Support for Opus audio file format
● Plug-in list in Diagnostics Report
● Display plug-in name and slot on Automation Tracks
● Support for Steinberg CC121 and Tascam Model 12

New Commands
● Project Page - Transform to Rendered Audio
● Project Page - Transform to Real Time Audio
● Score - Toggle Note or Rest
____________________________________________________________

The following issues have been fixed:

● [Ampire] Noise when disabling/enabling Plug-in Nap
● [Apple Silicon] Certain AU Plug-ins are not tempo-synced
● [Audio Editor] Audio Events may disappear when Gain Envelopes are enabled
● [Mixer] Black screen artifacts when large/small fader button is toggled in fullscreen mode
● [Mixer] VST3 instruments sub-outs not added on activation
● [Pedalboard] Phase parameter in Modulation Pedal has wrong tooltip
● [Project Page] Showing LU instead of LUFS on recall
● [Project Page] "Show/Hide Loudness" doesn't expand after detection
● [Project Page] Changing gain from the context menu in a project doesn't trigger "Update Loudness"

● [Sample One] [Impact XT] Scroll to loop end does not work reliably
● [Show Page] Crash in Performance View when executing transport and locate commands
● [Show Page] Instrument Track input doesn't save the 'None' state
● “666” error on processing particular Audio Events
● Can't remove VocAlign from Event FX
● Certain templates not showing Note Editor window
● Data zoom resets on timeline position change
● Dragging notes in Editor is slow when automation lanes are displayed
● Double-click on unselected Track doesn't locate cursor

● Filtering many Tracks by name is slow
● Manual time stretch does not stop playback when Event is not under playhead any more
● Notion Sequencer Overlay view remains visible once transferred to Studio One
● Potential crash when dragging window to second monitor
● Render Instrument Track does not work for Chord Track manipulation
● Removing a layer from a grouped track no longer removes all layers across the group
● SoundCloud may drop its connection after a certain time
● Track numbers in tracklist > 999 are cut off

Known issue:
● [macOS High Sierra] Graphics Hardware Acceleration cannot be enabled

 

Fender's amps on Ampire?

 

Excellent update. Studio One rules!

 

I think, v6 may come this July, if my guessing is right, which is, "major update on even year's July"

 

They seem to have gone off the rails with V5 and V5.5. They have put most of their effort into the Show page, which is ill-thought out, half-assed and hardly anyone uses it and now they have made many improvements to the Project page, which is also a minority activity.