The best thing about Studio One is that has tons of great tools built in to make it competitive technically, while being superior by far in budget. Allowing for advanced organization during utilitarian editing iterations, providing full video support and enough stock plugins to do most anything you need to efficiently, S1 covers a wide variety of needs in elegant ways.

We're coming to a time where basically every DAW on the market has added features for many editions, covering whatever people are missing and what the competition is doing. If a feature is missing, you can be damn certain that a gang of VSTs will be waiting to surround you, punch you lifeless, take your money and fill the void. So for a review to be worthwhile, the most important features unique to this DAW must be put to light. The workflow here is incredible, key commands are easy to learn and quick to customize and I can put down drum machine beats through the keyboard or Maschine or midi controller lightning fast. The way you can split these bars with the "grid" feature is stupid rad if you make hip hop. Also, it almost never crashes. I don't have to bounce my tracks very much, even with nice plugin chains (at 32 RAM which is ok). even latency when playing guitar is minimal here. External sound card dropped in the mix and you can just go home and pee your pants, bro. also this might sound extremely pleb but idc - the colors are bright and easy to navigate. I literally chose this DAW when I didn't know anything about production because it had the prettiest colors (Studio one 3). they get even prettier with each edition. IDK how!! I thought I knew what colors looked like but I guess I'm a chump. Much like you, reading this. Since you probably don't have it.

I like the implementation and logistical order in workflow, how effects are engaged and routed within the bus system of the software.