Of the two, I do think Logic is the more ergonomically designed. Studio One is a bit too dark for my tastes - though I concede that as personal preference. I think a lighter gray is a better compromise. Cakewalk provides both visually-consistent Lite and Dark themes, as does Pro Tools and Samplitude Pro X - without you having to cook one up yourself). It’s like developers saw the Photography and Videography apps doing it and they all decided to create a universal FAD… which I am growing to hate, particularly when a well-designed light theme is not provided (i.e. I’m becoming averse to these Dark Themes… which really only made a ton of sense in Visual Arts apps that were run consistently in dim rooms (to avoid ambient lighting polluting color perception - same reason why there are hoods for color calibrated screens). So, basically, darker bland > brighter bland? I do wish it had a workable default lite theme. Just make sure you watch the Presonus YouTube channel for a bunch of awesome features. I promise you're gonna fall in love with it. They've thought of everything and they SERIOUSLY listen to their customers and keep adding features that people ask for as free updates for everyone. It sounds so nice, I still use a bunch of their stock plugins even though I've got UAD, FabFilter and a bunch of others. Studio one was listening to all those conversations people were having and put ALL of those features in one place and then made it super simple to understand and even shape studio one to the same workflow as the previous DAW you came from (such as the fact they've got options to map the keyboard shortcuts to the same as the ones you had previously just as a one click option) It's basically, "I like (insert DAW) cause of (insert feature)" Each DAW has their "feature" that makes that DAW different to the others (could be time stretching done well, routing made easy/automated, keyboard shortcuts made easy, special commands that make it easy to achieve things and so forth).The best description I've heard to describe Studio one is: So yeah, if you're more comfortable being on a PC - Studio One looks like a fine choice to me.I used to use Logic Pro, and I was pretty happy with it but the second I went to Studio one I never looked back. There was a time when trying to keep a DAW running on a PC without constant problems was a real issue. Though the middle version seems quite functional - but if you get that into it, you can always upgrade later (though you really may not need to). I'm still not totally clear about the differences between the middle version and the flagship. I would venture that Logic still provides a deeper selection of virtual instruments, loops and audio FX - but SO's version 5 seems to include a more than workable selection of instruments and audio effects. But the last few versions have seen the program seriously catch up - in fact, with some big leaps with this new version 5. Of course, there's always been a significant feature set difference - and for a long time, those discrepancies weren't just bells and whistles. Of the people saying they've used both - pretty much an even split between which one is considered easier to use. Literally the only negative reviews/comments I've seen on has come from folks using it on the Mac - it seems it is still having performance issues for some folks on that platform. Hey Dan - I haven't used Studio One at all - but from I can tell from all I've read - you should have no qualms about going in that direction.
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