I would like to suggest a feature for a Listen feature, or Dim Solo. What is it? When in listen (Dim Solo) mode non-listen/non-soloed channels are still audible but at a reduced (configurable) level. This is useful when you want to focus on a specific track/element/sound but you still want to keep it in context with the entire mix. So it allows you to hear all tracks while the soloed track stands out from non-soloed tracks, without the need to manually change its level.

Being able to map a sine/saw/etc wave to volume, pitch, cutoff frequencies, or any other plugin parameters would be really cool. What do you guys think?

There should be an option for created busses to "stick" to the right side by the main master track. If you have the 'busses group to the right' option on, it keeps them right, but also scrolls them with everything else. So for large projects you still have to scroll quite a ways to get to them. Perhaps a simple right click 'Sticky' option or something, and bam, that buss is now stuck to the right by the master. This functionality exists in Sonar as a reference. Would be a huge time saver for something like a Drums buss, when you have 20 tracks, going to various sub-busses (Shells, Room, OH, etc), to a main Drum bus, to a master, and you just want to solo the Drums buss without scrolling all the way to the far right to get to it (as an example).

I would love to transform a selected range of a bus and/or FX channel to audio with the same options as a normal transform track to audio but with an added option to disable the tracks being bussed to it. I know you can bounce tracks out and import but I think this is a much quicker and more elegant solution.

With S1v4, the Import Song Data feature was implemented. However, I don't think the feature is complete. For instance, when you select a Song to import from, you _**cannot import bus or FX channels with no automation lanes**_. I've tested this. As long as there are no events or automation envelopes on a track, you are not given the option to import it. Why is that a problem? Well, let's say I have Superior Drummer set up in multi-out to give me control of individual mics, and I have groups of mics bussed to subgroups for kick, snare, etc., and I have all the channels running to a drums subgroup with processing on it. I want to import just the bus channels I used as subgroups. Well, they don't have automation envelopes, and because they're bus channels, I can't put events on their respective tracks. So I can't import them without importing the instrument. Or, what if I want to import pieces of my template at a time, so I pull in my DRUMS layout, then my KEYS, then FX, and so on. That's not possible if there are no events or envelopes on those tracks. In the case of FX, you really can't import them without first adding automation envelopes. To make matters worse, you **_cannot import from Song templates_**. Why in the world is that the case? The first thing I tried to do with the S1v4 demo was import from a template. Why would I want to do that? Well, let's say I've already started on a song, or I've begun working on a project, and I need to bring in additional processing after recording the drums. Or, I've laid out the tracks as recorded and I want to bring in my FX "rack." I'd look for my template and import just the pieces I need. So, I know it's not a bug, but there's really huge limitations on Import Song Data as it compares to Pro Tools' Import Session Data. If Studio One wants to be the next big professional-level player, I think it should incorporate as much of a professional toolset as possible. Hopefully others agree with me.

Right now there are no slots in the inserts area in the mixer, which is a good thing because this doesn't limit the amount of inserts per channel and it makes it easy to insert a new plugin anywhere in the chain without having to move other plugins first. Like in ProTools, if you have slots 1-6 occupied but you want to insert a new effect in slot 3, you need to first move the plugins in slots 3-6 to make room. So in that regard how Studio One handles this is better. However, sometimes you want a certain plugin, for example a channelstrip, or a mixtool, always on the last position, but also want to be able to only bypass that one plugin on all channels. This is not possible if that plugin is not on the same line. Or maybe you want to be able to remove it all at once, not one at a time. If there would be additional insert areas, or at least one, that would solve this limitation. Put the mixtool in the second area and it doesn't matter how many plugins are in the chain in the first area, the mixtool will not move. If then there would also be a power button for each area, that would be the icing on the cake. No need to first select all channels, just a click and all inserts in that area are bypassed/activated.

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Dear PreSonus, As a user of Studio One, I was wondering if you could adopt a great feature found in Logic. In Logic, you can turn an audio region fade in/out into a tape stop/start effect with the click of a button. You can actually toggle back and forth between tape start/stop and fade in/out, it's that easy. The length and speed are dictated by the length of the fade in/out drawn on the ends of the audio region. Is there any way for you guys to write that into the program? Many have written in about this topic a long while ago but still nothing. Would love to see this feature usable in the same simple way Logic uses it.

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What I really lack in Studio One is the peak value display on the separate channels. Coming from Cubase Pro and Logic X Pro, I have a constant habit looking at the separate channels for the actual peak value of the channel. In Studio One we have only the slider value and not the peak value. The peak value is only shown on the master channel which is not practical at all. I would like to see the peak value to each channel and being aware as to how much and whether the channel is peaking.