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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

Mastering the audio editing tools

Studio One has an impressive list of audio editing tools, and the sheer number of available options may appear intimidating at first. However, these tools are in fact powered by just two algorithms – the pitch detection algorithm tells Studio One which notes are played in an audio recording, and the transient detection algorithm tells it when those notes are played. Editing tools use these algorithms to make informed decisions on the audio material and perform automated tasks with precision.

In this section, we will cover the most commonly used editing tools. These are tools that you will need in almost every project where audio is involved. Then, we will talk about how you can harness the power of other less common but equally exciting tools so that you can integrate them into your workflow as well.

Transposing and tuning audio events

Transposing and tuning allow you to alter the pitch of an audio event without changing its timing...