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The Ultimate Studio One Pro Book

By : Doruk Somunkiran
Book Image

The Ultimate Studio One Pro Book

By: Doruk Somunkiran

Overview of this book

The Ultimate Studio One Pro Book is a detailed, step-by-step guide to creating music with Studio One’s extensive set of production tools. This practical, goal-oriented resource will help musicians start producing their own music with Studio One and teach audio professionals how to include Studio One in their production workflow. The book begins by showing you how to set up Studio One to work smoothly on your system. The following chapters will walk you through the process of creating a project, along with recording audio and using virtual instruments to construct a MIDI arrangement. As you advance, you’ll find out how to edit your songs to perfection using Melodyne, Audio Bend, and an extensive collection of MIDI modifiers. You’ll also discover how to mix in Studio One with the effects plugins included in it, along with applying audio mastering in the Project window. Throughout this book, you’ll gain the skills needed to leverage Studio One confidently and effectively, as well as build your own unique music production workflow. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to effortlessly translate your musical ideas into complete songs using Studio One’s powerful tools.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with Studio One
5
Part 2: Creating in Studio One
9
Part 3: Editing in Studio One
14
Part 4:Mixing and Mastering

Understanding Snap and various Snap modes

Editing music is a painstaking process that requires precision. We cannot just drag an event and hope that it falls into the right place. Studio One assists us in overcoming this issue by using Snap, an automatic alignment feature that ensures that any editing operation we perform is perfectly lined up with either a musical grid or with other events.

Snap affects the behavior of all the editing tools we discussed in the previous section. So when you move an event with the Arrow tool, select an area with the Range tool, or cut an event with the Split tool, Snap will align these actions automatically.

Snap is active by default, and you’ll want to leave it like that most of the time. If you need to do some minor surgical editing that does not need to align with anything, such as removing a breath noise, Snap can be turned off by pressing N on your keyboard or by using the Snap toggle button:

Figure 7.11: Snap options – the Snap toggle button is on the far right

Figure 7.11...