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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

Adding Virtual Instruments and Recording MIDI

Virtual instruments have been an integral part of music production for decades, and MIDI is the universal language that allows us to work with them. One of the most important duties of all DAWs is to take our creative ideas and convert them into MIDI data that virtual instruments can process.

MIDI is an archaic and cumbersome language by today’s standards, so this translation is by no means an easy one, but Studio One does an amazing job with it. Whether you’re a total beginner or a seasoned expert, you will find plenty of alternative methods to channel your ideas into concrete musical productions in no time.

This chapter will begin with a brief introduction to MIDI for the complete beginner, and then we will proceed to examine Studio One’s several methods for recording and inputting MIDI. By the end of this chapter, you will have a solid understanding of how to translate your musical ideas into MIDI data and...