Jurij Ricotti is a Musician, Composer, Music Director, Sound Engineer, Sound Designer and Producer. He's worked on multiplatinum albums alongside top artists and producers with Tony Renis and Humberto Gatica. He's worked as a Musician and Sound Engineer in Europe, Asia, Middle East, USA, and Australia, and is a Studio One power user. He was happy to tell us why.
What PreSonus products have you used and which do you currently use?
I Use Studio One Professional since version 3 because I was tired of crashes and old features in Cubase 7 and 8. My workflow is stressful for the DAW, and for the Mac too, with hundreds of MIDI tracks assigned to orchestral instruments, drums, audio guitars and percussion strictly focused on Cinematic purposes. As a composer and arranger, I love flexibility, speed and performance that does not distract my mind from the creativity process. And Studio One is the best DAW for this, in my humble opinion of course.
For what applications are you using Studio One? (Example: for recording, composing, sound design, and so on; in a commercial studio, project studio, for live recording, etc.)
At the moment, SO3 is my main DAW at JGRSTUDIO. I'm finishing mastering on Barbara Todisco's new album before starting Gianfranco Mauto's next album. And all my collaborators are moved to Studio One and Notion. Recently I've finished some guitar tracks for three international movies in 2016. I've used Studio One for all Andrea Bocelli Cinema Radio edits and cuts, some edit for his TV video show in Italy with Rita Ora and many other great performers. I've also used Studio One for arranging the drums on Bocelli's performance at the MTV Awards with Tory Kelly. The piano parts and mixing was performed by Pierpaolo Guerrini at PPGStudios. Another intensive use was during percussion programming on the Track Maria on Cinema Album. Vocal Recording was all done in PPGStudios (www.studiocentauro.it) by Humberto Gatica, Pierpaolo Guerrini for the English and Italian songs and with me in the Spanish version. The London Symphony Orchestra was recorded at Abbey Road. Final Mix was by Humberto Gatica at Lion Share Studios in LA. Cinema was a gigantic work with pro arrangers involved, four Sound Engineers, Abbey Road sessions, mixing in LA. Thanks to three of the best producers: Tony Renis, Humberto Gatica and David Foster. Studio One is a perfect platform for project studio and for pro studio, I didn't use it for live yet, but I will cover this soon.
What led you to choose Studio One? Was it the company's reputation, audio quality, ease of use, specific features, price, other factors?
PreSonus have a great reputation in Europe, and the products are solid and used in a lot of home and project studios. As I mentioned before I was tired of other DAWs, I've used Cubase mainly for the last 10 years, I use Pro Tools because is a standard in the studio, and when 64-bit came around, the choice was only on Logic, Cubase 8, Bitwig, or Ableton. I've tried to work with those platforms, especially on Logic because of its score editor, and other features.
But there was always something missing. As any user knows, changing your DAW after 10 years is not easy for anyone. I downloaed the Studio One demo and started to feel confident immediately thanks to the option to use Cubase Key Commands. But I was completely blown away with the Melodyne Integration and parallel processing with the Splitter. At this point curiosity brought me on to the Studio One Expert website where I've studied all the other features. After the first month, I was faster than before doing vocal comps and converting MIDI to audio. With Melodyne studio I can also bring the orchestral click on the arrangement. I love the mixer: it's innovative, full of controls and perfectly fits with my controllers and iPad.
Having used Studio One, what do you like most about it?
Well, strange but not strange. Studio One is super solid-I get no crashes with my intensive sessions. Great compatibility with any controllers, Melodyne and now VocAlign integration, parallel processing, and great performance on my Mac Pro. There are also other features I love: no dongle, affordable price, mastering in the Project Page, and last but not least an amazing dithering process from 192khz or 96khz to 44khz-better then all the other DAWs.
What Studio One features have proven particularly useful and why?
In modern music arrangement and mixing, the parallel processing and external audio hardware integration is a standard. Especially with external outboards like compressors, effects, or preamps. I'm using Studio One with an RME Fireface UFX and a lot of outboard gear. Many composers and sound engineers are now tracking in home studios, or project studios without physical mixers, they prefer to use Summing Mixers with outboards and different kinds of preamps. Even if you are involved in rap, pop, rock or classical. This reduces space, studio costs, and time. The most interesting feature for me is the automation. With Studio One you can automate everything, simply amazing.
How does Studio One compare to other DAWs you have used? What's better, what's not as good, what does it give you that other DAWs don't?
A comparison is obvious for a professional user, someone like me comes from intensive works on Pro Tools or Cubase or Logic. Studio One is new, and all the new features are impressive. The mixer has better performance and the audio dithering is better. The score editor with Notion 6 is great. Pro Tools does not have score editor at all. The real strength of Studio One is the continued relationship with their Forum users, they pay attentions what users ask and suggest, this never happened before with other DAWs. The compatibility with AU and VST let the users choose do not cha
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Jurij Ricotti is a Musician, Composer, Music Director, Sound Engineer, Sound Designer and Producer. He's worked on multiplatinum albums alongside top artists and producers with Tony Renis and Humberto Gatica. He's worked as a Musician and Sound Engineer in Europe, Asia, Middle East, USA, and Australia, and is a Studio One power user. He was happy to tell us why.
