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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

Choosing Your Flavor of Studio One

Competition is fierce in the world of Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs), with well-established major contenders having, over time, specialized in different aspects of music production. Although Studio One, the ever-popular DAW developed by PreSonus, is more than a decade old at the time of writing, it’s still considered a newcomer. However, it has garnered a well-deserved reputation as the “program that does it all.”

As exciting as that may be, not everyone needs all the functionality that the full-fledged version has to offer, so PreSonus has come up with several alternative packages to choose from, offering different levels of functionality, complexity, and pricing.

In this chapter, we will go over these versions, analyze the differences, and discuss which user profile each version would be most suitable for. By the end of this chapter, you will have a solid understanding of which version will best meet your needs, and why.

In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics:

  • Meeting the candidates – Prime, Artist, or Pro
  • Picking a one-time purchase or joining Studio One+
  • Sifting through the additional content