I have downloaded Studio One 5.2. I found it trying to "write home", despite the fact that I had blocked it when I installed 5.1, so I just re-blocked it and it seems to work fine,

I spent the entire day yesterday checking it out, It's definitely a good upgrade, especially the new Sound Variations.

I was working on Notation, and I found a few things glaringly missing.

Tablature - If we are going to have guitar tablature, then we should at least have SOME guitar articulations, Palm Mute is a MUST have. Bends and slides would be nice as well,

Even ore important the ability to write TEXT onto the Score.

I ask anyone with a genuine copy to PLEASE ask Presonus to add ability to put text anywhere in the score between the staves and to add at least Palm Mute to the score.

Sound Variations : If you assign an instrument to a track and load the Sound Variations for the instrument and later decide to change the instrument, it insists on keeping the Sound Variation Preset for the original instrument instead of clearing it for a new one.

 

I'm afraid the score features aren't going to improve much because Presonus has a separated software for notation

 

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Last edited: Mar 19, 2021

Studio one is asking to download additional content libs, is this something that is ok or should I block it from doing so, I ask because I dont want this version getting locked out. As anyone else DL the content and been ok? any ideas?

 

@Ziplob : your question already has the answer in it ,IMHO.
Not sure , but I suppose one has to login to dwnload, I would´nt do it.
It´s like robbing a bank , and asking the clerk if he has a bag for the cash , and if he might bring that filled bag to your car.

 

lol I guess so, good analogy.

 

I have a sneaking feeling that they will drop Notion in time. I don't think it sells that well, but if they put more stuff into Studio One, they won't need it. I don't see people queuing up to excitedly await a new version of Notion, like they do Studio One and they are competing with the BIG boys, like Sibelius, which is way above the league of Notion.

 

Logic had one of the better scoring features for a DAW and that's because it was developed from Notator by EMAGIC many moons ago before Notator became Logic, then Logic Audio (now owned by Apple). I do not use it anymore but last Century it was certainly the most advanced and 'logical' score editor of its time before Digital Audio Workstations became commonplace.
With Sibelius, Finale and other dedicated scoring applications, which are more focused purely on notation, orchestration, arranging and scoring, the majority of these applications seamlessly run with several DAW's, whether rewire or ARA. As it has been suggested, I agree that separating the two for the greater part is a good thing.