Studio One 5 Explained

DAW guru Eli Krantzberg brings you the largest collection of comprehensive Studio One 5 video tutorials! Studio One 5 Explained® covers both the basics and more advanced additions to version 5, showing you exactly what you need to know to use them effectively, when creating your productions. With over 6 hours of Studio One 5 lessons, you'll learn to master Studio One 5 and then go beyond. These videos are designed for both new and experienced Studio One users.

Core Work Flow

• Welcome to Studio One (03:59) - See how to set your audio interface and start a new song from the Studio One Start Page.

• Audio Interface I/O Setup (05:58) - Learn about Studio One's layer of software I/O channels, and how to create and name inputs and outputs that correspond with the inputs and outputs on your audio hardware.

• MIDI Device Setup (06:02) - See how to setup your external MIDI keyboard controllers, instruments, and control surfaces in Studio One 5.

• Main Workspace Overview (02:31) - Take a first look around the main areas of the Studio One workspace and learn how to access the various tabs and panels.

• Instrument Track Basics (07:07) - Explore various ways of creating and managing Instrument tracks, loading presets, and more.

• Audio Track Basics (06:14) - See how to create and configure audio tracks and how to set their tempo modes.

• Metronome & Count In Setup (05:01) - Learn how to customize the metronome sound, choose between pre-count or pre-roll, and more.

• Basic Transport Commands (06:01) - Learn the keyboard shortcuts for the most frequently needed navigation and playback functions.

Basic Recording

• Simple Audio Recording (05:17) - Learn how to record enable audio tracks and work with software monitoring and low latency mode.

• Recording to Layers (02:07) - See how to use Layers to record multiple passes on the same audio track.

• Auto Punch Recording (06:04) - Discover how to re-record a portion of your recorded audio file at a pre-defined in and out point in the timeline.

• Audio Loop Recording (02:51) - See how to record multiple passes over the same area in timeline and have each take automatically assigned to a new layer.

• Instrument Replace Recording (04:32) - See how Replace mode is used to have new material recorded to a new event when recording over an existing instrument part.

• Instrument Overdub Recording (04:12) - Explore overdub recording, and the Record Takes vs Record Mix options when recording over a looped region.

• Note Repeat (05:03) - Learn all about the note repeat functions, as well as note erase and loop undos.

• Step Record (03:31) - Discover how to enter notes or chords from your keyboard in non real-time while the transport is stopped.

Basic Editing

• Editing Basics (06:10) - Learn how to access the main editing functions, how the snap to grid settings work, and how to zoom the display horizontally and vertically.

• The Arrow Tool (03:54) - Discover several useful editing functions easily accomplished in the different click zones using the Arrow Tool.

• Selection & Splitting Techniques (06:04) - Explore various ways of making event based and range based selections and cuts using the Arrow and Range Tools, as well as a few useful key commands.

• Other Tools (03:50) - A brief roundup of the remaining tools and some of their unique functions.

• The Quantize Panel (07:06) - See how the timebase settings and quantize panel are used to determine where notes, events, or transients land on the timeline.

• Tune, Transpose, Nudge, Merge, Duplicate, & Strip (06:44) - Learn how to tune, transpose, nudge, merge, and duplicate Events, as well as how to remove silence from Audio Events.

• Useful Navigation Functions (05:05) - Explore some of the alternate transport options, and techniques for efficient playback when editing.

• Basic Comping (04:48) - Learn how to work with multiple layers on a single track, and create a new composite layer comprised of the best bits from each of them.

• Transient Detection & Bend Panel (07:02) - Explore how Bend Markers are used to stretch or compress audio to conform to transients and grid divisions.

• Slip Editing (04:11) - Discover this simple and elegant workflow and how it is when the timing of just a few notes of an otherwise good performance need correcting.

• Groove Extraction (03:56) - See how this feature is used to capture the timing and velocity settings from either and audio or instrument part, and apply it to another.

Working in the Editors

• The Audio Editor (03:19) - Take an initial look at the edit window and its main functions.

• The Music Editor - Piano View (07:21) - Explore the main note creation and editing functions using the Arrow, Split, and Paint Tools.

• Piano View Editing (05:16) - Learn how to scale velocities of selected notes using the Transform Tool, transpose, quantize, humanize, and mute selected notes, and edit their properties numerically in the Music Editor Inspector.

• The Drum Editor (07:35) - Explore the Drum editor functions, along with some useful Action Menu MIDI processing functions.

• Score View (05:01) - Welcome to the new Studio One 5 Score View, where musical data is displayed and edited as musical notation.

• Working in Score View (05:44) - Explore the available expression symbols and other Score Window features; and see how to work with the new side-by-side editors feature in Studio One 5.

• Key Switch Editing (06:13) - Discover the new key switch lane that has been added to the Musical Editor in Studio One 5 to view and edit key switches in context.

• Getting Started with Patterns (05:16) - Learn about Studio One?s step sequencer, and how to get up and running with the basics quickly.

• Pattern Step Record & Real-Time Record (02:02) - Discover two alternate ways of entering notes in patterns using the step record function.

• Patterns, Patterns, & More Patterns (04:39) - Explore workflows for creating pattern variations, and saving/loading patterns for use in other songs.

• Drum Mode Pattern Editing (07:13) - See how the Pattern Editor Drum mode is used to work with an Impact XT kit, and how velocity, repeats, and probability are modified on a per step basis.

• Other Useful Zoom Commands (04:51) - Review the basics, and learn some new useful zoom commands to use while editing.

• Introduction to Macros (03:32) - Discover how this special control panel gives you easy access to often used functions, and custom command combinations.

• Customizing the Macro Toolbar (06:12) - Explore the various ways of editing and creating buttons, menus, actions, and macros.

• Audio Loops & Music Loops (03:06) - Learn about the two proprietary file formats used by Studio One.

• The Browser Pt. 1 (06:58) - Dive a bit deeper into the Browsers search and organizational functions.

• The Browser Pt. 2 (04:43) - Here we continue by exploring the Loops, Files, Cloud, Shop, and Pool Tabs.

Arranging Tools & Workflows

• Duplicating Events & Tracks (03:10) - Look at some simple ways of duplicating events and tracks either separately or together in Studio One.

• Tempo & Time Signature Changes (03:54) - Learn how to create tempo changes and time signature changes in your song's timeline.

• The Arranger Track & Marker Track (10:30) - Discover how the Arranger Track is used as an arrangement tool that lets you work with portions of your entire Song as though they were individual Events, and rearrange them quickly and easily. And see how the new Marker Track in Studio One 5 is used to quickly navigate the timeline.

• The Scratch Pad (04:14) - See how Scratch Pads act as quick storage to hold Events, Parts, and entire Song sections for later use or re-use, reducing clutter in the Arrange view as you assemble your Song.

• Getting Started with the Chord Track (08:19) - Explore this tool that provides the ability to perform "harmonic editing" of both Instrument and Audio Parts.

• Arrange View Clean Up (07:22) - Explore ways fo cleaning up edits using the Bounce Selection, Bounce To New Track, Merge, & Mixdown Selection functions.

• Edit Groups & Track Lists (04:38) - Learn how to work with Edit Groups, and to use the Track List to move, and show/hide various combinations of tracks.

Mixing Your Music

• Getting Started with Console View (09:24) - Get to know the layout of Console View, the different track types, and where things are laid out.

• Working with Insert Effects (08:27) - Learn how to work with insert effects and device racks.

• Event Effects (05:02) - See how these are used to process individual Audio Events, as an alternative to channel based insert effects which effect the entire track.

• Track Transform (04:56) - Explore an alternate way of rendering insert effects and automation on either Audio or Instrument tracks.

• Sends & FX Channels (05:15) - See how Sends and FX channels are set up and used to route audio form one channel to another.

• Working with Bus Channels (02:25) - Follow along as a bus track is created and set up as a subgroup for the drums and percussion.

• Cue Mix Setup (05:53) - Learn how to set up and customize unique headphone mixes, including send FX; and also how to print with effects while recording.

• Working with Scenes (04:48) - Mixer Scenes have been expanded into full mixer snapshots in Studio One 5. You are now able to capture full mixer snapshots at any given time and recall snapshots in a variety of different ways.

• The Listen Bus (03:03) - A New Listen Bus, with independent routing, is now available as an alternative to monitoring solo signals through the main output channel. It is also useful for routing within Studio One when using speaker calibration software.

• Aux Channel & External Instruments (04:45) - Explore the new Aux Channel in Studio One 5, and see how to set it up in conjunction with an external device in order to route external hardware synths into the Studio One signal flow.

• Clip Gain Envelopes (04:24) - See how this new Studio One 5 feature is used as an additional layer of gain control for audio clips applied directly on the audio event.

• Getting Started with Automation (08:31) - Learn how to use track automation to automate any parameter related to an audio or instrument track. And hear the newly enhanced State Space Modeling Drive Stage added to the Analog delay effect (as well as many others) in the Studio One 5 update.

• Drawing & Editing Automation (06:29) - Explore ways of creating and editing automation envelopes using the different tools in the Arrange View.

• Automation Tracks & Real Time Automation (06:09) - See how automation tracks are used to automate parameters on FX and Output tracks, and how touch and latch modes are used to capture real time fader movement.

• Instrument Part Automation (03:40) - Discover how part automation is integrated into Instrument Parts. With the new Studio One 5 Select Part Automation With Notes feature, no matter where an instrument part is moved, or how it is edited, the automation stays in place.

• Exporting Stems (03:39) - See how Studio One's fantastic export features allow you to export individual tacks and channels with insert and send effects included.

• Final Mix Down (03:55) - Hear a final play-through of the short arrangement built up throughout this series, and learn how to bounce down a final mix.

The Show Page

• Studio One 5 Show Page (05:45) - Take a first look around the new Show Page in Studio One 5, which introduces a powerful, fully-integrated live performance environment that's capable of running complete shows from a single computer.

• Working with Setlists (06:25) - Discover everything there is to know about creating and managing setlists within the new Show Pages.

• Meet the Players (06:15) - Learn about Players and Patches; see how they interact with setlist items, and more.

• Players, Patches, Songs & Shows (10:21) - Watch how players and patches work together, and see how to move elements of a song into a show.

• Arranger Track & Shows (02:52) - See how the Arranger and Chord are moved across when sending a song to a show, and see how to set the sync and playback modes of the Arranger Track sections within a Show.

• Controls View (08:05) - See how the macro controls are set up to map parameters of any Player, instrument, plug-in, or mixer channel for real time adjustments.

• Performance Mode (04:32) - Explore this full screen view of the Show page, designed with big easy to read controls that are optimized for visibility on dark stages.

Studio One 5.x Update

• Retrospective Recording (04:25) - Learn how to capture MIDI performances, including CC messages, as well as on screen knob movements, either when the transport is stopped or in Play Mode.

• Track & Channel Filters (01:25) - Watch how to navigate big sessions by using filters in either the Mixer or the Track List, to easily display subsets of tracks in the full session.

• Other Enhancements (02:09) - Discover various workflow enhancements including the ability to bypass Clip Gain, view multiple Time Rulers simultaneously, and copy Send Chains.

• Notation Enhancements (07:38) - See how the notation in Studio One has been enhanced to included two new page views, a print option, as well as track and layout tabs to customize transpositions, and other page display options.

• Introduction To Advanced Score Features (02:26) - Learn about the new guitar tablature, drum notation, and multi voice assignments added in the Studio One 5.2 update.