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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

Optimizing your system for best performance

Let’s consider a common scenario – say you have a laptop computer with a conventional hard disk drive (HDD) and you’re working on a modest project, with 10 Audio Tracks and 10 Virtual Instrument Tracks.

Now, if you want to record another Audio Track on top of that, here’s what’s going to happen – as soon as you click the record button, Studio One will try to simultaneously read audio data from all 10 existing Audio Tracks, retrieve Sound Sets for the Virtual Instrument Tracks, and write data for the new track that you’re recording on.

Keeping up with this amount of data flow is demanding for even a fast HDD, and it will become even more so as the project grows bigger. Add to this the fact that the operating system may need to use the disk for background tasks of its own, and we’re pushing the disk way beyond its limits. HDDs are equipped with buffer memories to avoid this, and...