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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

Navigating the Project Page and Producing Final Masters

In the music industry, mastering is often regarded as a mysterious blend of art, science, and magic that only a few exceptional people with supernatural ears and expensive equipment can perform. While it’s true that experience, a good pair of trained ears, and the right equipment will definitely have an edge, technology has reached a point where anyone in a modest home studio can create perfectly good masters of their music for publication in digital music platforms with some basic knowledge.

Studio One raises the bar in making this technology even more accessible by virtue of its Project page, an environment dedicated specifically to mastering. The tools available on this page put the mastering process within reach of every musician, regardless of their level of experience.

In this chapter, we will explore the Project page and learn how to produce final masters that meet the standards of digital music platforms....