Studio One 3.5 What's New and Release Notes

14/06/2017

Studio One 3.5 is here! This is a free update for owners of Studio One 3.x. Click Check for updates in Studio One's start page to get it!

Full release notes follow. For a less-technical overview, check out the video below or visit our What's New page here.

IMPORTANT: This version introduces an updated file format for Songs and Projects for faster

Save / Auto-Save. Files created in 3.5 will no longer open in previous versions of Studio One.

Make sure to work from copies of your existing songs created in Studio One 3.3.4 or older if

you like to continue working with a previous version as well.

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New features and improvements:

Audio Engine and Performance

Flexible Dropout Protection

Native Low Latency Monitoring

Low-latency virtual instrument monitoring

Multi-processing enhancements for improved CPU balancing

Arrangement and Automation

New shortcut to Select all Muted Events

Copy/Paste Events also copies Layer data

Import tempo map, time signatures and markers when dragging MIDI file to

Arrangement [Cmd+Alt]

Maximum Track Delay increased to 1,000ms

New Track command: Apply Track Names to Channels

Cursor follows Edit Position now limited to manually selected events or

ranges

Batch renaming events always adds leading zero

Event Inspector: Multi-editing for Event Start and End

Arranger Track: Move Arranger Section only [Cmd+Alt]

Bounce to new Track now preserves output routing

Complete Show/Hide for Automation

Automation Lanes on Instrument Track

Improved time-stretching accuracy. Audio Bend mode now obsolete.

Mixer (Console)

Mixer Undo

Remote control of StudioLive Series III Fat Channel and mic pre-amps

New command: Remove Track Automation removes all automation data

Visual plug-in bypass state in console

Instruments and Plug-ins

Fat Channel XT

Adjustable level range for Spectrum Meter (all modes)

Updated micro-views for Spectrum Meter

12th octave mode in Spectrum Meter (incl. keyboard scale)

Loudness Meter now EBU R-128 compliant

[macOS] MIDI input for AU plug-ins

Event FX window follows Event selection

[macOS] Preset list support for AU instruments/plug-ins

FX Routing: Splitter can now be moved freely

Music Editor

Unlimited number of controller lanes

Option to Resize adjacent Events (multiple overlapping) [Alt]

Score Editing with Notion

Send audio or note data to existing song

Tempo map import (drag & drop)

Other improvements within Notion (ReWire handling, Studio One application

launcher, and more)

Project Page

Independent Track Markers

Flexible Loudness Detection options

New Loudness Meter

New Spectrum Meter

DDP import

Improved meta-data editing

Pool in Project Page

New Bounce Track option

Dynamic search for Songs in Project (improved compatibility)

Faster rendering (if a Song is used multiple times)

New command Bounce Track (includes Track inserts, not Master FX)

Extended Add to Project menu

Improved ID-tag export (adding Composer and ISRC)

User interface improvements

New Split Track and Split at Cursor commands + shortcuts

Browser

New Construction Kits node in Loop Browser

Search fields in Browser and Mixer reset on close

Hardware and Multitouch

Dual-screen support (Raven MTi)

Higher MIDI update rate for control surfaces

General

Delete unsaved files and folders when closing new song w/o saving

Warnings shown when errors occur while exporting mix in real-time

Updated FLAC codec (better performance)

Improved save and auto-save performance for Songs and Projects

[macOS] Independent recording and playback devices

Extended Bounce and Export options

Support for 176.4 kHz sample rate in audio export

[Developers] Gain Reduction API for VST2

The following issues have been fixed:

Invert Selection didn't restrict range when Scratch Pads exist

Arranger Track section copy doesn't work backwards on timeline

Pre-recorded notes overlapping loop start are doubled after loop recording

Fade handles are hard to reach when event volume is not at max.

Overlapping audio events with fade-in are out of sync

Crash when recording MIDI in loop

Play Start Marker affects bounce between markers

No Paste in context menu for Tempo Track

[ARA] Events show wrong content when split after analysis with Melodyne 4.1

Crash with NI Komplete Audio 6 when changing sample rate

Audio time-stretch with bend markers is not exact

Chorder: Crash when transposing out of range with automation

Install from Cloud inside Studio One 3.3 hangs

Plug-in menu search box loses focus

Command for Show in Finder/Explorer not working for Macros

Can't drag more than one Instrument from Browser

[macOS] Newly created folders not visible in Browser

Copy external files not working for multiple opened songs

[macOS] Studio One language changes after re-install

Crash while closing all songs

Musicloop exports without audio when routed to outputs other than Main

Wrong-placed note events in loop recording

Sustain pedal with latency writes wrong data

Global plug-in bypass not functional if any plug-in in Chain is disabled

Spectrum Meter curve has offset depending on FFT size

Channel buttons missing on Multi-Instrument channels

[macOS] AU Instruments saved in OFF status load back empty

[macOS] Kontakt AU not showing all available outputs

Global deactivate FX not working with disabled tracks

Inconsistent behavior when chasing long notes

[Impact] Wrong channel order when moving sub outs in mixer

Wrong channel order after transform to audio and back

Wrong channel order between folders and busses

Wrong channel order when dragging ins

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