Studio One: Beginner's Guide

DAW guru Eli Krantzberg presents powerful beginner Studio One video tutorials! Compatible with all versions of Studio One, see how to get up and running fast with Studio One, including set up, recording and editing MIDI and Audio, loop recording, arranging and mixing basics, using S1's powerful automation, basic mixdown and much more. These videos are designed for beginner Studio One users.

Videos

• Start Up & Configuration (05:00) - Learn how to set up your audio and MIDI hardware, and how to create a new song.

• Introduction to the Workspace (02:30) - Discover the main areas of the Studio One workspace, and some simple and useful shortcuts to navigate through them.

• Creating an Instrument Track (03:37) - See the various ways of creating tracks and assigning software instruments to them.

• Setting Up the Metronome (03:18) - Learn about the precount and preroll count in options, assigning the metronome sounds, and how to control the functions from the Transport bar or with key commands.

• Simple Recording & Basic Transport Commands (03:01) - Watch how to record a software instrument and basic navigation commands for locating and playback.

• Quantize & Input Quantize Basics (03:47) - See how to use basic quantization to correct the timing of a performance either after the recording, or on input as the performance is recorded.

• Replace & Loop Recording (04:12) - Discover how Replace Mode is used to punch in and correct areas of an existing recording, and how Loop Recording is used to record multiple passes over the same area.

• Loop Recording In Record Mix Mode (02:53) - Watch as Record Mix mode is used to loop record percussion. Instead of creating separate takes, parts are merged each time the Loop is repeated.

• Audio Recording Basics (04:25) - Learn how to get up and running recording a simple mono audio track in Follow mode.

• Arrange View Editing Basics (05:50) - Discover how Snap to Grid works when editing events in Arrange View, and see how range selections are used to copy portions of an event.

• Event View Editing Basics (05:51) - Explore how notes are created and edited with the mouse in Event View.

• Mixing Basics (06:41) - See how Insert device racks are used to process the sound playing through the channel, and how Send device racks are used to send a portion of the signal to another location for effects processing, and then blended together with the original audio.

• Automation 101 (03:46) - Learn how to create Automation Envelopes on a track in order to vary the values of specific instrument parameters over time.

• Mixdown & More (05:22) - Discover how to add a fade out to the end of your song, how to add limiting to the full mix to increase the volume, how to edit your song?s meta data, and finally, how to mix it down to a single audio file.