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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

Using Melodyne to convert audio into MIDI

Until recently, converting audio recordings into MIDI data was pure science fiction. But today, any DAW software worthy of its name boasts this function in its feature list. Studio One comes bundled with Melodyne, the industry standard in audio pitch detection and correction, so it has the upper hand compared to its competitors. Be warned, though, that this technology is still in its infancy. The success of conversion depends, to a large extent, on the source material.

Let’s take a look at the things you can do to get the best results possible.

Choosing the right type of audio material

The first and most critical step in audio-to-MIDI conversion is to identify the pitches or notes in an audio recording. This task is performed by a pitch detection algorithm. The success of this algorithm depends heavily on two factors:

  • Pitch detection works best with monophonic material. The term monophonic has different meanings in different...