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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

Recording and inputting MIDI

There are several methods for recording and inputting MIDI data in Studio One, each optimized for a different purpose. You can play everything live, input notes with a mouse, use a sequencer, or even create MIDI data from audio recordings. In this section, we will cover all of these methods in detail.

Let’s start with the most basic one: capturing a live performance.

Recording a live performance with MIDI

If you can play the keyboard, even at a beginner level, the best way to pour your ideas into your project is the old-fashioned way – hitting the Record button and playing it live. Once you’re done recording, you’ll be able to edit your performance to perfection. This takes the stress factor out of the equation and makes the whole process a breeze. Generally speaking, recording a live performance is much more practical compared to manually inputting notes.

This is all very well, but what if you don’t have a...