You're reading from The Ultimate Studio One Pro Book A step-by-step guide to recording, editing, mixing, and mastering professional-quality music

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803241012

Length 386 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Presonus Studio One

Concepts

Audio Processing

Author (1):

Doruk Somunkiran

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Started with Studio One

2. Chapter 1: Choosing Your Flavor of Studio One FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring Your Studio One Environment

4. Chapter 3: Exploring the Studio One Environment

5. Part 2: Creating in Studio One

6. Chapter 4: Creating a New Song

7. Chapter 5: Recording Your First Audio Track

8. Chapter 6: Adding Virtual Instruments and Recording MIDI

9. Part 3: Editing in Studio One

10. Chapter 7: Editing and Rearranging Your Song

11. Chapter 8: Editing Audio

12. Chapter 9: Editing MIDI

13. Chapter 10: Using Global Tracks

14. Part 4:Mixing and Mastering

15. Chapter 11: Preparing for the Mix

16. Chapter 12: Working with Effects Plugins to Craft a Mix

17. Chapter 13: Optimizing Signal Flow and Elevating Your Mix

18. Chapter 14: Navigating the Project Page and Producing Final Masters

19. Chapter 15: Using Additional Studio One Features

20. Index

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Appendix –Customizing Studio One and Following Best Practices

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...