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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

Exploring the Studio One Environment

Some DAW programs are packed with features but are very complicated. Others are more user-friendly but light on the feature set. And then there’s Studio One. It’s extremely powerful yet very easy to use, thanks to a brilliant user interface that simply lets you sit down and start creating.

Saying that, there is a lot to explore beneath the surface, and the interface can only help you if you know what to look for. In this chapter, we will take a deep dive into the Studio One production environment and learn about all the different pages, windows, and tools that we will use in the following chapters. You will gain a clear understanding of the function and purpose of each page and zone in Studio One, along with learning how to work effectively with the interface and make the most of your computer screen(s).

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