While our focus remains on music production, nearly 50% of our users describe their main activity as “content creation” involving mixed media, so the line between pure music production and content creation involving mixed media is blurred. Was this focus spurred by a desire to expand Studio One’s abilities beyond music production, and edge it further into being a broader multimedia toolkit?Īrnd Kaiser: Studio One users have been asking for extended video support for a long time, and we’re excited to see how well the new video features in Studio One 6 have been received. We’re planning to add more layers to this in the future and provide our users with even more ways to communicate their needs.ĪMI: A notable addition to Studio One 6 was the refinement of video editing and the addition of the video track. All this information combined provides us with a vivid picture of what Studio One users need and how they’re using our software. On top of that we’re organising local Studio One Meetups in places around the world where users meet other users, sometimes including beta testers or PreSonus staff. We conduct regular surveys, monitor discussions on various forums and social media platforms and run a dedicated community-driven website () where users can post, discuss and vote for feature requests. When adding new features, we incorporate a lot of user feedback. It’s the shared codebase that allows us to work efficiently across projects and offer regular free feature updates for all applications. In turn, Notion Mobile inherited a lot of new Studio One code. The first result of this effort was the Studio One score editor we released with version 5 in 2020. We’ve been working on Notion Mobile for quite some time-several years, actually, because we ported the original Notion code to the Studio One framework and also rewrote a lot of code. In the case of Studio One 6, the team started back in January 2022 with part of the team still involved in Studio One 5.5 and subsequent maintenance updates. With projects of this scope, we are working in parallel with smaller teams sharing the work. How long had these new iterations been in development before release? And were Studio One’s new features – and the creation of Notion Mobile – influenced in any way by community/audience feedback for specific new features?Īrnd Kaiser: Last year was a great year for us, with both a major Studio One update and a brand-new version of Notion Mobile released. We caught up with Arnd Kaiser (above, left), General Manager for Software and Chris Swaffer (above, right), Product Manager for Notion, to learn more about these major releases, and to learn more about the company’s major drives in 2023…ĪMI: Last year, both Studio One 6 and Notion Mobile wowed the home production world, balancing advanced feature-sets with easy to navigate interfaces. Later in the year, an improved version of Notion Mobile appeared in platform agnostic form, and what, for our money, is the slickest route to sketching and composing orchestral music. The breadth of Studio One 6’s new features – which include video editing, lyric incorporation and Smart Templates – seemed to indicate a move towards a more holistic philosophy, perhaps in tandem with the perennially cool ethos of their new parent company, Fender, who acquired the venerable music technology brand in 2021. “Not just more bells, but also better whistles” was how we wrapped up our review of PreSonus’s Studio One 6 recently, after spending some quality time with this feature-packed multimedia workstation. With a sparklingly spruced up iteration of their increasingly versatile DAW Studio One and the now cross-platform Notion Mobile astounding us last year, we caught up with the company to find out more about PreSonus’s aims for 2023… Following their acquisition by guitar giants Fender, PreSonus have been on something of a roll.
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