Editing Audio
These are exciting times for music production. Today, in a modest home studio, we can do things that the biggest producers of previous decades could only dream about.
Vocals out of tune? Sloppy timing on a drum track? The neighbor decided to mow the lawn during a guitar solo? No problem! These can all be fixed in a matter of seconds, without any significant artifacts. The ability to fix errors in a recording is a game-changer in and of itself, but it’s only the beginning. The ability to manipulate audio recordings opens the door for endless creativity – changing the groove of an existing drum track, creating background harmony vocals from a single vocal take, or creating an ensemble of instruments from a single instrument. The only limit is your imagination.
In this chapter, we will take a deep dive into Studio One’s impressive audio editing features and learn how to use them to fix errors and for creative purposes. We will cover the following...