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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 special tools and analysis plugins

The final set of plugins in Studio One’s arsenal is designed to perform some specific, technical tasks and provide visual feedback on the quality of your mix. In an age where music production has largely shifted from commercial studios to home studios, we are more and more concerned about the accuracy of our room acoustics and monitor speakers, so this visual feedback has become extremely valuable for ensuring that our mixes are in top shape.

Special tools

The plugins in this category are utility tools that are designed to help you perform specific tasks. With the exception of Tuner, there may be little use for them in a typical home studio workflow, but it’s good to know they’re there when the need arises. Let’s take a quick look at what’s in the toolbox.

Tuner

Studio One has a built-in Tuner that you can use for tuning guitars, basses, or any other instrument that requires tuning. It’s...