Following final 12 months’s launch of Fender Studio – a GarageBand-style, beginner-friendly DAW app for recording and jamming – Fender is taking issues to the following degree.

Now, Studio One Professional, the famend DAW software program from PreSonus – which Fender purchased in 2021 – is transitioning into Fender Studio Professional, bringing a variety of updates to visible design and UI, new amps and results, quicker mixing workflows and masses extra.

However Fender isn’t stopping there; PreSonus’s Quantum and AudioBox interface strains are additionally transferring underneath the Fender identify, and can now be the Fender Quantum Sequence and Fender AudioBox.

Along with an up to date UI, new amps and results – 57 guitar and bass amp fashions by way of Mustang and Rumble Native plugins – and quicker workflows, the reimagined Fender Studio Professional setting additionally introduces upgraded samplers, in addition to AI-powered audio-to-note conversion.

“For greater than a decade, Studio One Professional has set the usual for contemporary music manufacturing,” says Max Gutnik, Chief Product Officer, FMIC.

“Its steadiness of energy, creativity and ease of use has impressed numerous artists and formed how music is made right this moment.

“With Fender Studio Professional, we’re taking these celebrated options and enhancing them with a modernised interface, Fender’s award-winning amp and results fashions and new intuitive workflows and capabilities that make creating music quicker, extra inspiring and extra related than ever.”

Fender says it “stays devoted to inspiring generations of artists and creators”, and that the brand new Fender Studio model – which brings PreSonus’s Studio One and Quantum and AudioBox interfaces underneath its umbrella – is the “subsequent evolution of that imaginative and prescient, the place custom and innovation meet within the service of creativity”.

To showcase the potential of Fender Studio Professional, Fender has tapped Nile Rodgers and Grammy-nominated producer Alissia Benveniste for a demo video.

“Having genuine Fender amps and pedals constructed straight into the DAW is a game-changer,” says Benveniste. “Fender Studio Professional delivers true analog heat with a seamless workflow.”

Additionally price noting, MyPreSonus – the platform by way of which you handle and entry your PreSonus gear and software program – is being changed by the brand new MyFender platform. This platform will even serve the broader base of Fender prospects who buy guitars, amps and results.

Whereas Studio One Professional is changing into Fender Studio Professional, and the Quantum and AudioBox strains are transferring underneath the Fender identify, PreSonus will proceed to serve prospects with professional audio merchandise together with its Eris Displays, StudioLive Sequence III SE Mixers, Air XD Loudspeakers and extra.

By way of pricing, a perpetual license for Fender Studio Professional is available in at $199.99/£169.99, whereas a month-to-month subscription is offered at $19.99/$19.99 per thirty days. Various improve choices are additionally obtainable for current customers.

Alongside the launch of Fender Studio Professional, the corporate has additionally issued an replace for its Fender Studio app, introducing a brand new transmit characteristic which seamlessly sends periods to Fender Studio Professional, in addition to new Chord Observe, and Drum Metronome options.

To study extra about Fender Studio Professional, head to Fender.

Elsewhere within the Fender world, it was introduced final week that CEO Andy Mooney can be stepping down, with the present President of the corporate’s Asia Pacific division Edward “Bud” Cole assuming the position of CEO from February 16.

“Main Fender has been a spotlight of my profession,” says Mooney. “I’m deeply grateful for the creativity and dedication of the Fender groups around the globe and pleased with what we’ve completed. I’m excited to move the baton on to Bud and assured that underneath his management, Fender will proceed to encourage gamers for generations to come back.”

Throughout his tenure as President of Fender Asia Pacific, Edward “Bud” Cole has spearheaded the opening of Fender’s flagship Tokyo retailer, overseen the growth of the model into 14 international locations throughout the area together with mainland China and Korea, and performed a pivotal position in quite a few Made-in-Japan launches, just like the extensively publicised Godzilla Stratocasters again in October.