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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

Using Melodyne to fix and enhance vocal recordings

Melodyne is an industry-leading software tool that allows you to manipulate the pitch and timing of individual notes in an audio recording. Melodyne is developed by Celemony. Although Celemony is not affiliated with PreSonus, they have worked in close cooperation for more than a decade now to forge an unmatched level of integration between Melodyne and Studio One. Melodyne Essential, the most lightweight version of the software, is bundled with Studio One Pro, and a trial version is included with Studio One Artist. The capabilities provided by Melodyne Essential are sufficient for the needs of most day-to-day music production.

Note

Although Melodyne is capable of manipulating the timing of audio, we will not cover that functionality in this book. Over the years, I have found Studio One’s own time manipulation capabilities, which we discussed in the previous section of this chapter, to be highly effective and sufficient...