It will happily extend across multiple displays, too – not just one or two. There’s multitouch support, making this very nice indeed on those new Windows machines. (If you want genuinely free software, do check out the fully free and open source Ardour, which also runs on Linux - but its UI may not be for everyone.)Įverything is modern looking and drag and drop is everywhere. Nor is there a nag screen asking you to buy.
And there aren’t any pesky limits on the number of MIDI or audio tracks or automation, as in some stripped-down free software.
And beyond that, this software does quite a lot – enough so that you could put it to the test by making some actual music. You do, however, get instruments that you can play with right away. (Well, they had to leave out something in order to lure away your money.) The notion is to provide the multitude of features producers demand, but keeping everything close at hand and operating quickly.Īnd now, you can try it free – not as a demo (though there’s one of those, too), but in a surprisingly full-featured version that costs nothing.įirst, the bad news: you don’t get VST / AU for instruments and effects, or ReWire support. PreSonus’ Studio One is among a handful of tools that has bucked the trend, putting everything in a streamlined single window view. And so a lot of DAWs seem to be counting how many windows and views and tools they can provide. Historically, these have been tools that do a lot of things in a fairly complex interface. The very fact that a tool is called a “digital audio workstation” rather than “music making software” tells you something.