 In this video we'll be discussing what's new in Studio One 5. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. So after much anticipation and more than a little bit of teasing from press on us they came through and announced what we're all hoping for and that's the release of Studio One version 5 and I've just literally finished watching their live stream where they've talked about some of the new features. So I thought I'd give you my reaction in the form of a top five favorite new features for this new release in reverse order of course. Now over the coming days, weeks and months I'll be releasing tutorial videos about these new features so I hope you'll consider subscribing and make sure you ring the bell on YouTube so you get notified about those future videos. So let's get stuck into my top five favorite features for Studio One version 5. So for number five I've chosen the makeover of the stock plug-in suite. I would have had this higher up the list because I'm really quite excited about this but at the end of the day it's more of an improvement rather than a new feature and they have made some of these plug-ins look very nice indeed. I'm really loving it but it's more than just a superficial improvement. You see up until now I found the plug-in suite with Studio One to be quite a transparent suite all in all and that's really useful at times. Sometimes you don't necessarily want to add a lot of color but now you can add some color with some new analog features that they've got on some of these plug-ins and I'm very very excited to try them out and see how I can improve my mixes with them and not have to reach for third-party plug-ins quite so much. So in at number four is the score view. Now Prisonis already had some notation software called Notion but we haven't been able to edit with a score editor in Studio One up until now. Now I know for some of you this is going to be your number one pick it's that big. The interface looks gorgeous, looks very easy to add new notes, to edit existing notes and it's very dynamic, it flows along with the music as we're playing it as well. You can unpin it, put it on another screen, all that kind of good stuff and there's also a step time mode as well so that you can input notes using your MIDI keyboard. Now what I'm excited about this more than anything because I'm probably not going to use this one that much but I know this is going to attract a lot of new users to Studio One because this has been a reason why some people haven't been using Studio One. So welcome if you're coming to join us with Studio One after this. A number three we have Mix Scenes, a feature which I think is so useful we're going to be thinking like that why didn't we have this before? It's so obvious. We now have the ability to take snapshots of our current mix save them for later and then create different revisions of mixes very very easily. You can also filter out certain channels or certain aspects of the mix. A really awesome feature. There's not too much to say about except I can't wait to try it. So if you like me use a lot of virtual instruments with key switches then you're going to be very happy about my number two pick because in Studio One they've now added a key switch lane an area where you can manage your key switches separately from the piano roll itself and I'm really really happy about this. I use a lot of virtual instruments like the ample sound instruments you see me feature on the channel and a whole bunch of contact libraries especially orchestral ones which use key switches to change the articulations of the instrument. It's always been a little bit fiddly to have that mixed up with the piano roll. So I'm very very pleased that it's got its own dedicated space now. Now some virtual instruments will show up automatically or their key switches are going to show up automatically but if they don't you can map them yourself and have it all perfect for your needs. So I just want to give an honorable mention not to a new feature of Studio One but something called Persona Sphere which was announced at the same time. Now while they were announcing this it was met with a lot of cynicism from a lot of people in the chat and I think it was highly unwarranted because I think people were mistaking Persona Sphere as a new sort of subscription service for Studio One. Well it kind of is because Studio One is included in this subscription but you can still buy Studio One in the regular way. But with Persona Sphere you not only get Studio One you get all of the plug-in all the add-ons you get the notion software as well that notation software. But more importantly for me it's the ability to have the online collaboration. You can hook up with other users and you can share mixes with each other work on projects together really easily by the looks of it. Now I'm getting emails all the time from people asking me how to go about that process. How do we actually collaborate with each other in our DAW. So this is another feature where I think this could bring a lot of people into Studio One. So look out for Persona Sphere I think from memory it was 1499 a month something like that. You get an awful lot in there and also you get 30 gigabytes of space as well which I think you can upgrade to 100 gigabytes so definitely worth checking out. One. So although my number one pick isn't something that I'll personally be using a lot. I've picked it as my number one because of the innovation shown here by Personas. I'm talking about the new show page. Now I get a lot of emails all the time from people asking me how they can use their DAW in a life situation and often I respond with don't it's not really geared up for that. So I'm really glad to see that Personas have addressed this need. The show page is a place where you can organize all of your tracks or your songs for a show. You can use a combination of live instruments, prerecorded instruments, virtual instruments all that kind of stuff and you can easily add, move, delete all that kind of stuff with songs on the fly for those last minute changes. Looks very very good indeed and I commend them on their innovation here. So what do you think? Did I pick the correct five features? Let me know in the comments down below what your favorite features are for this release. Also let me know which tutorials you would like me to make focusing on these new features and I'll do my very best to make them for you guys. 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