Tech Interview with PreSonus Software Co-Founder Matthias Juwan on Fender Studio & Studio One

[Lukas]

This is a quite nerdy interview / article on porting Fender Studio and Studio One for Windows on Snapdragon processors:

Fender and PreSonus supercharge music creation apps on Snapdragon

Fender and PreSonus optimized their music creation apps for Windows on Snapdragon devices to provide musicians and producers with truly mobile studios.

www.qualcomm.com

 

[SwitchBack]

Interesting. Any numbers on how this performance compares to Studio One on Apple silicon?

 

[Jemusic]

My M2 Max Mac Studio did the export of Rhythm of The night in 18 seconds! (compared to 29 in this article)

 

[SwitchBack]

Ah thanks. So still worth the premium

 

[dominicperry]

Interesting that they put Fender Studio first on the list, despite it being the much newer and smaller of the two.
The article is marketing guff, but it's good marketing guff in that it's quite reassuring to see that Studio One is mainly coded in C++ and it is actually impressive to be able to port the entire codebase so quickly. And now we know why there was a lull in releases - they were doing this.
Getting ahead of the game here for running on the latest hardware is good, as long as we can continue to run effectively on older and slower hardware too. Not everyone can afford to upgrade their machine every few years.

Dominic

 

[SwitchBack]

Good points. I can see the reasoning behind putting Fender Studio first, it being the simpler tool. Those who need a proper DAW (and know that buying a tool doesn't automatically mean that you're mastering it too, no pun intended) will find Studio One just the same.

For me the time is about now to switch to Apple silicon, finding good used ones to replace the Intel based ones. Never saw the need to buy new computers. Even 2nd hand Apple computers are pricey but you get what you pay for, in performance and stability.

 

[jpettit]

Happy to hear that they're finally engaging with the NPU.
Maybe we'll see some machine learning coded by PSL in the future.
The first and most obvious would-be Fender machine learned amps.
The second avenue would be helping with writing songs.