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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

Rendering final masters for publishing and delivery

Part of what makes the mastering process intimidating to many people is the abundance of delivery formats and the standards associated with them. Digital distribution networks, streaming services, and CD manufacturing plants all have unique standards that they expect you to conform to when delivering your final masters. If you fail to comply with these standards, in the best-case scenario, you’ll be required to submit your masters again, this time with the correct settings. In the worst-case scenario, your songs will be published as is, resulting in sub-par sound quality.

Fortunately, the Project page makes it easy to render final masters that comply with all applicable standards, even if you don’t have any experience or technical knowledge in mastering. Using the Project page, you can create final masters of your songs for the following formats:

  • Digital distribution: This is by far the most popular channel...