- Tempo detection, which is better than not having it but not quite as accurate as the painfully slow process of doing it manually.
- Stem separation which believe it or not it's the same Z plane stem separation as BB now, but much better integrated. This combined with the tempo detection makes it much easier to get the tempo map for any live song. BTW this local stem separation is not as sophisticated as online tools which can do 6-8 different separations, but Z plane will improve its learning as free updates.
- Launcher is designed for EDM but it has this place for playing around with a progression to hear different sections of your song in different orders or the party of the song that needs to jam along longer.
- The Splice integration is really good, making thousands of loops key and tempo aware so they work with your song with little effort.

By the way these all work pretty good with the V7 BB plugin, which can now follow tempo maps and uses the same process (slightly slower) as BB for generating the tracks to preview. You still have to convert the tracks to waves to get them into your DAW just like if you were to do it manually in BB.


Studio One (latest version), Win 11 23H2 , i9 -10940X 3.3 GHz, 32GB Mem, a 4K 40" monitor, PreSonus Studio Live III Console as interface/controller. secondarily test on Reaper, Cakewalk, and S1 on Surface Pro 3 Win 10 (latest versions).