I built a free open-source companion app for Studio One — project analyzer, plugin remapper, media relinker, articulation editor and more. Very early beta, bugs expected.
Hey everyone! 👋
I've been working on a side project for a few months. It started as a simple .song file inspector and slowly turned into something much bigger. I figured it was finally time to share it with the community!
It's called Studio One Project Hub. It is a fully desktop app (Windows, macOS, Linux) that reads your .song files directly. It lets you analyze, visualize, and maintain your projects without even opening Studio One.
🚀 GitHub (Free & Open Source): https://github.com/anthogoz/Studio-One-Project-Hub
🔒 Privacy First: Everything runs 100% locally. No accounts, no telemetry, no network requests. Your project files never leave your machine.
📺 Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRXArLFj6WM
⚠️ IMPORTANT BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD
This is an early beta. It has never been tested on anyone else's machine until now, so there will definitely be crashes, broken layouts, or edge cases I haven't thought of.
Safe practices: The tools that write back to your project files (media relinker, plugin doctor) automatically create timestamped backups. However, I strongly recommend working on a copy of your project folder at first. Just duplicate your project folder, point the app to it, and enjoy zero risk!
If something breaks, please open a GitHub issue with your Studio One version and what you were doing. That is the best way to help!
🔥 WHAT IT CAN DO
📊 Project Analysis
- Dashboard: Instant access to metadata (tempo, sample rate, duration, track count, audio clips, loop settings, markers).
- Mixer Console: Full channel strip view with inserts, sends, routing chains, gain, pan, mute, and solo states.
- Signal Flow Map: An interactive graph showing exactly how channels, buses, and outputs connect visually.
- Piano Roll: Visualize MIDI events from your instrument tracks with export options.
- Automation Plotter: Renders automation curves directly from the song file with export features.
- Structure & Tempo Map: Displays time signature changes, tempo events, and song sections across your timeline.
🗂️ Project Management
- Version History: Lists all your
.songfile snapshots, shows diffs between versions (tracks added/removed, plugin changes), and lets you compare two saves side-by-side. - Project Compare: Load two separate projects and diff them against each other.
- Workspace Audit: Scans your whole Songs folder to find duplicate project names, unusually large files, or abandoned projects.
- Session Sheet: Generates a clean summary (tempo, key, tracks, plugins used) to copy or export for session notes or client handoffs.
🛠️ Maintenance & Repair
- Missing Media Relinker: Scans for broken file paths, fuzzy-matches candidates from your workspace, and relinks them directly inside the
.songZIP (with backup). Perfect if you moved your sample folders. - Session Cleaner: Finds unreferenced audio files taking up space in your Media folder so you can safely delete them.
- Plugin Doctor: Maps missing plugins or VST2 versions to their VST3 counterparts, patching them directly into the project file while KEEPING your original parameters.
- Freeze & Latency Advisor: Scores every channel by estimated CPU weight and latency (based on loaded plugins like Kontakt, Omnisphere, Serum, Ozone, Soothe, etc.) so you know exactly which tracks to freeze.
🎨 Creative Tools & Other Features
- Sound Variations Editor: A visual builder for Studio One articulation maps. Set triggers, assign colors, and export ready-to-use
.soundvariationfiles. It also imports Cubase.expressionmapfiles! - Session Colorizer: Create keyword rules (e.g., "if track contains 'Kick' -> set color to Red") and apply them automatically.
- Vocal Chain Copier: Fast-copy a full insert chain from one mixer channel to another.
- Sample Browser: Searchable list of all audio clips with durations and sample rates, plus export options.
- Template Generator: Build a brand new template from the channel structure of an existing project.
- Collab Memo: A simple embedded notepad for your to-do lists, session notes, or client feedback.
- Video Sync Advisor & Version Converter: Detects video sync tracks, and includes an experimental tool to convert
.songfiles down to older major versions (back to S1 v3).
📦 DOWNLOAD
Grab the latest version from the Releases page: 🔗 https://github.com/anthogoz/Studio-One-Project-Hub/releases
- Windows:
.exeinstaller (Windows 10/11 x64) - macOS:
.dmg(Unsigned, so you'll need to Right-Click -> Open to bypass Gatekeeper) - Linux:
.AppImage(x64) - Or clone the repo and run from source with Node.js if you prefer!
I built this because I was tired of waiting for Studio One to boot up just to check a plugin list or see if a file was missing. Hopefully, some of you find it useful too!
Feedback is highly welcome, and bug reports even more. Let me know what you think!
