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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

Working in the Pattern Editor

As we saw in Chapter 6, the Pattern Editor is a perfect tool for creating musical ideas that are meant to be repeated. While its strictly grid-based design lacks the Edit window’s what-you-see-is-what-you-get approach, the Pattern Editor offers some unique features that are not available anywhere else in Studio One. So, let’s take a look at each of these.

To start using the Pattern Editor, double-click on the pattern you want to edit. This will open the Pattern Editor window. Just like the regular Edit window, this window has an Automation Lane in its lower section but with a different set of options:

Figure 9.16: The Automation Lane in the Pattern Editor

Figure 9.16: The Automation Lane in the Pattern Editor

Now, let’s go over these options one by one:

  • Velocity allows you to set the velocity value for a note, on a scale from 0 to 100. Note that in this window, you cannot select a note by clicking on it; this will delete the note. Instead, click...