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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 basic editing tools and quantization

In Chapter 6, Adding Virtual Instruments and Recording MIDI, we covered several different methods of recording and programming a MIDI performance. While a MIDI performance is an excellent starting point for presenting musical ideas, it’s hardly ever used in its original form. It is meant to be processed and refined, just like a precious metal ore.

In this section, we will explore Studio One’s basic MIDI editing tools and then take a deep dive into MIDI quantization. All the tools and methods discussed in this section will be based on the Edit window, which can be easily accessed by double-clicking on the MIDI event that you’d like to work on.

As we noted in Chapter 6, the Edit window itself has three viewing options – the Piano View, Drum View, and Score View (see Figure 6.12). Unless otherwise noted, we will use the Piano View throughout this section, as it offers the maximum number of editing tools and options...