Your primary DAW crashes during a mix. The OS is corrupted. You quickly boot into a Windows To Go drive or a live Linux environment (via Wine/Box86) and launch the portable Studio One. The project is retrieved. The deadline is met.
Teaching a class of 20 students in a lab that has outdated DAWs is painful. A portable version of Studio One 6 on a USB stick handed to each student allows them to run the software from the drive. No admin passwords, no installation waits, no conflict with the school’s pre-installed software. presonusstudioone6professionalv600incl portable
You are on a tour bus. You have a laptop, but the bus’s gallery computer is a powerful desktop. Instead of installing your license on 5 different machines (violating EULAs), you run the portable version off your personal SSD. You produce a beat during the 3-hour drive, save it to the cloud, and resume on your laptop later. Your primary DAW crashes during a mix