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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

Customizing Studio One

As you go from one project to another, some procedures become muscle memory, and you find yourself doing them over and over again. Maybe you have a special combination of effects plugins that works like magic on your vocals. Or maybe you created a killer sound by layering three virtual instruments on top of each other, and that sound has become such a part of your sonic signature that you want to use it on all your projects.

If you find yourself launching the same plugins or virtual instruments frequently, it’s a good idea to save them as templates and presets. This will allow you to jump right into the creative process without spending time setting up the same elements every time.

Studio One offers several methods that allow you to customize your workflow for more efficiency and consistency. In this section, we will explore these methods in detail.

Creating your own Smart Templates

In Studio One, a Smart Template is a pre-configured Song file...