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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

Adjusting MIDI data to enhance a performance

Although MIDI has been with us for almost half a century, it is still regarded by some music producers as artificial and sterile. Some music genres have embraced this quality, whereas other genres treat it as a necessary evil, an unfortunate side effect of technology that must be handled with care.

It is possible to inject realism and emotion into a MIDI performance, and Studio One has several tools to help you with this. In this section, we will cover several MIDI editing techniques that will bring your MIDI tracks to life.

Transposing notes

Being able to transpose notes easily and without sacrificing sound quality has been one of the strengths of MIDI. Transposing allows you to change the key of your Song without rerecording anything. This is useful for finding the best key for your vocal range, matching your Song to an existing set of tracks, or trying out different keys to find which one sounds best for your Song. However, that...