PreSonus Studio One Pro becomes Fender Studio Pro: here’s what it means for producersPreSonus Studio One has found a new home under the Fender umbrella as Fender Studio Pro – as the Big F looks to provide the most cohesive DAW environment possible for creators and producers.
Alongside the consolidation of PreSonus Studio One into Fender Studio Pro, PreSonus’s Quantum and AudioBox interface lines are also being rebranded under Fender. Meanwhile, the PreSonus brand remains focused on studio and live gear, maintaining its popular lines of studio monitors, PA speakers, and digital consoles. Fender acquired PreSonus back in 2021.
What does this mean for current Studio One users?
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If you’ve been using Studio One in your recording, music production, and mixing workflows, there’s no cause for alarm. Fender Studio Pro 8 is the next logical progression of Studio One, and it sits at the centre of the new Fender creator universe. In preparation for this shift, the PreSonus and Fender teams have been working hard to ensure that Studio Pro 8 is the most advanced, efficient, and creative DAW platform that it can be.
As there hasn’t been a UI update in Studio One in some time, Fender Studio Pro brings a fresh look and feel. It’ll still feel familiar to existing users, but features like the Arrangement Overview improve the experience on smaller displays, as well as a new Channel View that gives you an overview of the inserts on the selected channel, with access to key parameters.
Futher feature enhancements include the addition of Mustang and Rumble native plugins, with a range of 39 amps for guitar and bass, and over 70 effects pedals. These plugins have similar interfaces to the Fender Tone app and the Fender Studio mobile and desktop app, the latter of which has also been updated to version 1.2. The Fender Studio app becomes the pocket partner of Studio Pro, with full real-time Wi-Fi integration that allows you to transfer projects and scale your ideas up to fully-fledged productions.
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Meanwhile, for producers and beatmakers, there are improvements to the range of included virtual instruments. This includes interface updates across the board, as well as some user-requested feature additions for the Impact and SampleOne instruments. This is particularly exciting in the context of the newly redesigned Fender Motion MIDI controllers coming this Spring. This will provide a tactile platform to harness all the new and existing features, giving you a similar feel to some of the legendary sampler/sequencers of the past.
“We live so much of our lives in music today in the digital domain compared to where we were even 10 years ago,” says Max Gutnik, Chief Product Officer at Fender. “As the modern signal chain has gone digital, an iPhone could easily become the guitar amp for the new generation of musicians. This is why we want to ensure that the modern signal chain evolves with them, and the level of creative inspiration is consistent as they move between hardware and software.”
What are some of the notable music production and live performance features?
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Fender Studio Pro brings a range of improvements which expand the platform’s potential from a creative standpoint. The integration of AI-assisted stem splitting has been refined for more practical applications. For accurate drum replacement, you can isolate the drum hits in an existing audio file and convert them to MIDI in a single-step process called Extract Drums. Equally, you can use the Extract Notes feature to transfer a recorded instrument take into MIDI and use it with a software instrument of your choosing.
The same process can also be performed with chords, and the extracted information is instantly transferred to the Chord Track. The Studio Pro Chord Track, with its drag-and-drop import functionality, is particularly useful because it can feed chord information to 3rd-party plugins like Celemony Melodyne and others from developers like UJAM. Also, with the new AI enhancements, you can access the chord recommendation database in the backend of Studio Pro. There is also some crossover functionality, because the new version 1.2 update of Fender Studio adds the Chord Track, with a chord detection function to find out the chord sequence of any song.
On top of all this, Studio Pro’s Show Page now enables you to send a video file alongside each of your backing tracks via HDMI, visually enhancing your stage performance. What’s impressive, too, is the new integration with the Fender Tone Master Pro guitar processor, as it becomes a controller for your setlist and transport functions while being able to receive program changes that ensure you have the corresponding tone for each of your songs.
What inspired the change from PreSonus to Fender?
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The change came as Fender recognised the potential for musicians to user their affinity for guitars and Fender as a brand to channel that inspiration into the creative workflow of Studio Pro. With the marriage between Fender and PreSonus, the development teams create a symbiotic system that can deliver the best of both technological worlds to benefit both new and experienced users alike.
This consolidation will allow Fender to evolve with the next generation of musicians, and by doing so, remain at the forefront of creative technological development in this ever-changing space.
“One of the biggest challenges we face today is inspiring new creatives to actively make music,” says Arnd Kaiser, General Manager for Software at PreSonus. “Rather than simply providing a range of integrated technological solutions, the synergy between Fender and PreSonus bolsters the way we relate to musicians. Studio One was already a popular DAW with guitarists, but this new transformation presents the creative potential of Studio Pro to a wider range of users, in any musical genre.”
How can I get Fender Studio Pro?
Fender Studio Pro is available now, with a perpetual license priced at $199.99/£169.99, or a monthly subscription priced at $19.99/£19.99. A number of upgrade options are also available for existing users.
You can learn more by heading over to Fender.
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