PreSonus unveils Studio One Free, a free version of their DAW for OS X and Windows.
"Intended for beginners who don’t yet need the advanced features in Studio One™ Artist, Producer, and Professional, Studio One Free provides all of the recording and editing features needed for basic music production—and as its name implies, it’s free."
Features:
- Elegant single-window work environment
- Powerful drag-and-drop functionality
- Unlimited Audio and Instrument (MIDI) tracks
- Unlimited FX channels
- Two simultaneous inputs and outputs
- Unlimited inserts and sends per channel
- Single and multitrack comping
- Multitrack MIDI editing
- Track list with presets and mixing-console link
- Track Transform (advanced freezing capability)
- Content browser with search, user tabs, and preview player
- Automatic delay compensation
- Easy-to-use sidechain routing
- Presence virtual instrument with 100+ presets
- Most intuitive MIDI-mapping system available
- Real-time audio timestretching and resampling
- Compatible with any ASIO-, Windows Audio-, or Core Audio-compliant audio interface
- Works with key commands from Pro Tools, Cubase, and Logic—or create your own key commands
- 8 Native Effects audio-processing plug-ins:
- Beat Delay – Tempo-Synchronized Delay
- Channel Strip – Dynamics Processing and Equalizer
- Chorus – Mono/Stereo Chorus
- Flanger – Stereo/Mono Flanger
- MixVerb – Mono/Stereo Reverb
- Phaser – Stereo/Mono Phaser
- Red Light Distortion – Distortion Processor
- Tuner – Instrument Tuner