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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

Adding color and character with plugins

Today, almost every photo we see in a magazine or billboard ad is retouched extensively in Photoshop or similar software to enhance the image and reinforce its impact. The same is true for music tracks as well. Most of the material we hear on music platforms is augmented by special effects to make them sound bigger and more powerful. If you’re thinking about releasing your music on platforms such as Apple Music or Spotify, you’ll want to make sure that your tracks are as polished and compelling as all the others. Thankfully, Studio One offers plenty of tools to help you achieve the impact your tracks need. In this section, we’ll take a close look at these tools.

Distortion plugins

Distortion effects are a common tool in music production used to add grit, warmth, and character to a sound. Distortion plugins come in many flavors with different names, such as overdrive, fuzz, saturation, and bit reduction. These affect...