r/StudioOne • u/NANAMINER • 13h ago
TECH HELP MAC ARA + PDC is still broken in Studio Pro 8.1.2 for me. Anyone else?
I’m getting clicks/cutoffs on vocal events with Melodyne running as ARA/Event FX whenever the project has significant latency — especially from Pipeline / External Effect.
This happened in Studio One 7.2.3, and I upgraded to Studio Pro 8.1.2 hoping it was fixed. It isn’t.
Toggling “Process Volume after Event Effects” helps, but it does not fully solve it. And it changes the Event FX/fade processing order, so event fades and volume handling no longer behave the way I need.
So right now my options are basically:
- keep ARA live and get incorrect/glitchy playback;
- change the Event FX processing order and break parts of my normal editing workflow;
- or render/freeze the tuned vocals before continuing the mix.
That last option is the only reliable one I’ve found, but it completely defeats the point of keeping ARA edits live while mixing. If I need to change one note later, I have to go back, disable the latency-heavy processing, edit, render again, and return to the mix.
This looks very much like an ARA/Event FX + PDC timing bug, not a Melodyne edit issue, because changing the amount of latency elsewhere in the project changes the problem.
Has anyone reproduced this with Melodyne + Pipeline/External Effect or other high-latency plugins?
And has anyone found an actual workaround that preserves both:
- correct ARA playback;
- normal Event Fades / Event Volume processing?
I’ve submitted it to Fender/PreSonus support as well.
