Who Wins in a Fight? ProTools vs Studio One?

I've been a PT user for over 20 years now, and Avids subscription model has driven me to try a new DAW. I am so looking forward to using Studio One on my next project.

Great advice, Joe! 20 year Cubase user here. In the early 2000s I remember feeling like I was on the outside looking in with the majority of folks using the "industry standard" Pro Tools. However, like you recommended here, I stuck with what I HAD and what I knew. Still using Cubase to this day, still love it.

Studio One is my DAW of choice hands down. Good music is good music, doesn't matter where it's made as long as it sounds good.

Studio One is my go to DAW! I've used pretty much all of them at some point but find the S1 workflow is best!

Excellent vid, Joe. I have been a S! user since version 2, now on 6. I appreciate you doing this short comparison to PT. Your key points hit the hot spots for me. And, as you said, it is not the equipment nor the software. It's the art. Thanks, and keep up the great work!

that is a great thing. I noticed the routing behaving that way and I love it. I went to change the output of the bus and I'm like oh, it's already going to the drum bus. Great work.

I started on acid pro years ago but left music to raise a family. When getting back into music it was a friend with studio one V2 that got me rejuvenated! Been on studio one ever since but I am just now learning how to actually use it thanks to you Joe!!!!

I am so happy to finally hear somebody that has "influence" in the industry to say we are teaching "how to make great music not how to us a certain software" after all their are musicians out there winning grammy's using free software and recording,mixing,engineering,producing and mastering all by themselves in their living room now.... Keep up the great work!!!

Hi Joe, 35 years of daws here. I used Cubase for all the first years of my career, then I switched to Logic because of the more immediate workflow. In recent years, after buying Dorico for serious score works (great software), I have given Cubase a new chance. From Logic to Cubase I find that in each one I found things that were not there in the other.  Then the breakthrough, the best of every DAW to the best of their aspirations to use: StudioOne! I couldn't ask and imagine anything better, from multi-part midi composition to more advanced audio mixing. And if I need sheet music on the fly, here is the score editor that is already there everything is ready.  In short, this year I made my final step and Buyed Studio One, and full of satisfaction. Great Presonus, go on like this.

Excellent video Joe. I tune in to several audio mixing channels for tutorials to learn the concepts, and that's what I get. Digital audio is so flexible, I can somewhat choose whatever I want as a DAW or plug-in, and if my application of knowledge creates what it should, it'll sound good regardless of what I used to create it. I'm in the Studio One 6.1 Artist camp, now on my new Mac Mini M2 and 24 GB unified memory and 512 GB storage.

Thank you for sharing your time and experience!

I started writing and recording songs in 2016. Bought a basic presonus rig and learned a LOT from Joe and Graham. I don't really see myself switching anytime soon. I got the shortcuts down, and the less time I can spend on learning new software and technical stuff the better the workflow

I agree totally. Its what works for you and makes sense to you. I use S1 and love it. I am "pre" DAW. I learned engineering before ADAT; totally analogue ;)... I started sequencing in the 80s. S1 seems to incorporate alot of the old school mentality when creating the interface. So for me, it was intuitive coming from that background.

Editing is the thing that protools has me on so it’s good to see how you transitioned from being dedicated in protools.

Great offer of perspective Joe! I appreciate the explanation of both sides of the two Daws in various views. If I was to try to do that with all of the reasons why I like and don't like just about "all" daws, viewers would walk away just as confused as I've been for too many years on it all....lmao.

My problem with various audio software tools is the learning curve. The more whistles and bells the software has, the more complex and mind boggling it becomes. I agree, less focus on the software, more focus on the music creation. :)

I love the mixer in FL Studio

For me, propellerhead's reason, pro tools and Luna

Mario Paint Music Composer is hands down the best DAW

Wow, what incredible timing! I've been working in Logic for 15 years and love it, but built a very strong PC recently. I wasn't sure which DAW to go with, Pro Tools or Studio One. Thank you for the video!