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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

Fixing and enhancing the timing of audio recordings

You recorded an amazing vocal performance, but the singer was late when singing a few of the words. You know that you can use punch-in recording mode to record just those words once again, but the singer slipped out of the mood and just cannot deliver the same magical performance. Alternatively, maybe you borrowed a friend’s ukulele and came up with a great idea while noodling on it. You definitely want to record and use the idea, but you know that your timing will be shaky because you’re new to the instrument.

In music production, there will always be cases like these where you’ll need to fix the timing of an audio recording. Studio One makes this task incredibly easy to implement. In this section, we will take an in-depth look at the technology behind this functionality and how you can use it to correct timing errors and harness its power for creative purposes.

Understanding transients

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