Studio One 6 Explained

Join Studio One guru Eli Krantzberg for a complete walk-through of Presonus's Studio One 6! With a runtime of over 6.5 hours, Eli leaves few stones unturned in this comprehensive Studio One video manual course. Whether you're brand new to Studio One or a long-time user that just wants to learn about the new bells and whistles, Eli's got you covered. From audio recording to mixing, MIDI parameters to automation, plug-ins to editing and much more, you'll be ready to start making music immediately after completing the course with a thorough command of this DAW's impressive list of features. These videos are for new Studio One 6 users.

The Basics

• Start Page (05:52) - Welcome to Studio One 6. Learn about different document types used in Studio One 6, setting up multiple artist profiles, and using smart templates.

• Configuring & Installing (07:25) - See where to download additional Studio One content and how to set up the basic configurations for your audio hardware and external MIDI controllers.

• Audio I/O Setup (05:31) - Learn how to configure multiple input/output audio interfaces so the ins and outs are available for recording and playback within Studio One.

• Song Page (08:20) - Get an introduction to the main views and areas accessible directly from the Song Page.

• Learning to Navigate (10:01) - Discover the important fundamentals of moving the playback cursor around the timeline and starting/stopping playback.

• Creating a New Song (03:44) - See how to set user default content location preferences, create a song folder, set up Autosave, and manage the location of any imported media.

• Tracks & Channels (07:06) - Explore the relationship between tracks and channels, see how to create new tracks, and discover Track Presets (which store both track and channel parameters) and the Channel Overview Window, both new to Studio One 6.

• Custom Colours (01:49) - New in Studio One 6.1 is full control over the colour palette for channels, tracks, and events. Individual cells can be changed, and presets stored and recalled with custom colours and sizes.

• Metronome & Click (05:11) - Learn how to customize the metronome sound, control when it's heard, set preroll and precount options, and adjust the level uniquely in each output channel.

Recording

• Record, Quantize, & Autopunch (08:10) - Watch as basic MIDI recording is demonstrated. Quantizing is used to correct the timing of note events by moving them in relation to subdivisions of the bar/beat grid, and Autopunch is used to replace a short section within a longer MIDI recording.

• Instrument Recording Modes (06:38) - Follow along as input quantize, overdub mode, loop recording, and record takes are demonstrated in the creation of a drum part.

• Takes to Layers (05:22) - See how to create and record onto additional layers and how to loop record multiple takes directly into their own individual layer.

• Comping Layers (08:38) - Explore the workflow for auditioning and comping elements from different takes captured on individual layers. Also learn about some basic editing functions.

• Clean Up (04:00) - Learn about renaming tracks, channels, and events, reassigning output destinations in Impact, and assigning the new icons in Studio One 6.

• Step Record (05:14) - Discover how to use Step Recording: a special, note-by-note method of recording musical note data. Rather than playing in real time or drawing in notes with the Paint tool, you can simply specify a rhythmic value and press keys on your MIDI controller to enter notes and chords with ease and precision.

• Retrospective Recording (03:40) - See how Retrospective Recording captures every note you play on your MIDI keyboard or controller - even without hitting Record and when the transport is stopped! It works invisibly in the background on a track-by-track basis. Controller activity is captured as well.

• Note Repeat (05:29) - With Note Repeat active, any notes played re-trigger according to a user specified Rate setting. See the different features in action on a bass part.

• Audio Tracks (07:43) - Learn how to set up and work with Audio Tracks for the recording of live audio input (microphone, guitar, etc.).

• Cue Mix & Audio Recording (07:40) - See how to use the Studio One CueMix feature to create independent headphone mixes, necessary when recording live audio through a microphone.

• FX Channels & Cue Mix Setup (06:20) - Learn about FX Channels and how they're used to route the audio signal to a parallel destination, such as reverb, and then blended with the source signal. See how to enable CueMix sends on the FX channels and how to work with the pop up faders (new in Studio One 6).

• Recording Electric Guitar (05:56) - Follow along as some live electric guitar parts are recorded, punched in, and loop recorded to layers.

Editing

• Zooming Commands (05:36) - Learn some important and useful routine zooming commands that'll help you navigate your timeline with greater ease once your sessions become populated with more audio events and instrument parts.

• Snapping (06:22) - See how Snapping allows editing actions to occur only at specified divisions in time (such as bars and beats), making editing easier when working with tempo-specific material.

• Event Sync Point (02:24) - In version 6.1 and later, both Audio Events and Instrument Parts offer an optional variable Sync Point allowing you to add an additional timing reference if the transient or peak is other than the start of an event. This is great not only for syncing effects to video, but also editing in a musical context with material not rounded to even bar/beat positions.

• Smart Tool (08:50) - Discover the power of the Smart Tool for all of your basic arrange view editing functions.

• Other Arrange View Tool Functions (06:19) - Explore the Split, Eraser, Mute, Paint, and Listen tools.

• Clip Versions (09:08) - Learn how to work with Clip Versions, a completely separate copy of a clip with its own, independent metadata that can be manipulated independently of that of its parent audio file.

• Clip Gain Envelopes (05:57) - Dig into of the hidden features and power of clip gain envelopes.

• Some Basic Editing Tasks (12:36) - Explore a mixed potpourri of routine workflow and editing tasks for both instrument parts and audio events.

• Edit Groups (04:24) - Learn how to group tracks so that edits performed on an event in one track are automatically applied to events on each track in the group.

• Getting Started with Audio Bend (08:22) - See how Bend Markers are used in Studio One to stretch audio inside an audio event without the need for slicing the event into multiple pieces.

• Getting Started with Note Editor (11:17) - Learn the basics of the Action menu functions, the Inspector, and the various Arrow Tool workflows available in the Note Editor?s Piano View.

• Event Editing: Other Tools (07:02) - Explore some of the other tool functions when editing events in both the Piano View and Drum View.

• Getting Started with Score View (06:24) - Discover the basics of editing pitch and duration using musical notation, entering notes using the mouse or MIDI controller, and more.

• Lyrics (06:27) - Learn all about the new Lyrics Track, Lyrics Lane, and Lyrics Editor new in Studio One 6.

• Lyric Handling Enhancements (03:17) - Learn about the lyric handling enhancements introduced in the Studio One 6.1 update.

• Working with Patterns (12:37) - Explore the world of step sequencing using Patterns in Studio One.

Arranging

• Key Sig, Time Sig, & Tempo Changes (05:13) - Learn how to work with multiple time signature, key signature, and tempo changes.

• Arranger Track (05:48) - Discover how this is used as an arrangement tool that lets you work with portions of your entire song and edit them as though they were individual elements.

• Scratch Pad (03:35) - Explore how these alternate timelines are used to quickly rearrange, edit, and store various elements in your song in alternate arrangements.

• Melodyne QuickStart (08:13) - See how to get started editing monophonic audio with Melodyne, how to use it to convert audio to MIDI, and to extract tempo information from external audio files.

• Chord Track (09:19) - Learn how to perform harmonic editing of both instrument and audio parts using the Studio One Chord Track features.

• Folder Tracks (05:19) - Watch how to use these to keep the arrange view organized and to route related tracks to bus channels that act as a subgroup.

• Introduction to Macros (05:41) - Discover how the macro toolbars in Studio One let you customize your workflow by giving you easy access to often used functions and custom command combinations.

• Marker Track (04:51) - See how the Marker Track is used to quickly navigate around different sections of your song.

• Working in the Browser (07:48) - Dig a bit deeper into the Browser's search, navigation, and view functions, see how to work with favorites, create custom preset folders, and learn how to save and recall track presets (new in Studio One 6), all directly to/from the Browser tabs.

Mixing & More

• Getting Around the Console (14:44) - Take a detailed look at the various panels, view options, and workflows in the Studio One 6 Console.

• Getting Started with Plug-ins (06:01) - Learn how to work with and manage plug-ins and FX Chains in the Studio One 6 Console.

• Sidechaining & More (06:24) - Discover how to set up the compressor plug-in and route a trigger source from another channel to control its behavior. Also get a look at the newly updated Pro EQ3 band solo and dynamic EQ features in action.

• Channel Editor (07:20) - See how this is used as an overview and access point for all the important channel parameters, as a place to set up either parallel, channel, or frequency-based split points within the effects processing chain, and as an access point to freely assignable macros to control any parameter in any of the plug-ins or instrument used in the channel.

• Multi Instruments (04:10) - Discover how multi instruments are set up and used to layer multiple instruments together.

• Note FX (06:55) - Explore Studio One Note FX, which are like real-time MIDI effects processors that alter incoming note data before it reaches your instrument plug-in.

• Listen Bus (03:02) - See how this special bus is available for monitoring solo signals or routing signals to alternate physical outputs and processing streams.

• Effect Micro View (02:46) - Micro Views are small, expandable control panels within the Insert Device Rack that allow control over the critical parameters of each effect. Learn how to customize the micro view controls displayed by third party plug-ins.

• Getting Started with Automation (11:51) - Learn about track automation and automation tracks, see how to add envelopes and create and edit data points using the arrow, range, and paint tools.

• Instrument Part Automation (04:07) - See how this feature is used to integrate automation of instrument parameters directly into the instrument part.

• Scenes (03:52) - Discover Scenes, which provide an easy way to save and recall different configurations of Channels and Tracks, as well as different effects, plug-in parameter settings, and even automation.

• Mixdown (10:58) - Explore the various ways of rendering audio, including track transform, bounce, export mix down, and export stems. Hear a final play-through of the short arrangement built up throughout these videos.

• Video Track (09:38) - New in Studio One 6, multiple video clips are easily added via drag-and-drop and freely moved and edited using standard editing functions like trim, cut/copy/paste, slip, time and edit locks, ripple edit, duplicate, and replace. A new spot event window makes it easy to drag-and-drop or move events to specific frame-accurate locations in the timeline.

• Video Track Enhancements (01:44) - New in version 6.1, one or more videos can dropped into the drop zone when starting a new song and automatically imported and placed in the timeline. The video player window options menu (wrench icon) now includes an optional large timecode display with its own format selector. The video window can now also be freely resized when dragging from the bottom right corner.

• De-Esser & Vocoder QuickStart (09:21) - Learn how to use the De-esser and Vocoder plug-ins, new in Studio One 6.

• v.6.1 Miscellaneous Enhancements (02:40) - Discover several small but useful workflow improvements including shelf band soloing in Pro EQ3, a new transport bar loop display, macro page navigation, and more.

6.2 Update

• New Mixing Features (02:49) - Discover a variety of small workflow enhancements to your Mixing workflow, including copying automation along with FX plug-ins, polarity link behaviour improvements, panner linking behaviour changes, and folder track functionality.

• New Editing Features (03:09) - See how the new auto zoom feature works, how the tape time stretching mode and song end marker functionalities are improved, and how to apply crossfades to selected ranges.

• Takes & Layers Improvements (04:44) - Learn about several enhancements to the takes and layers workflow, including independent trimming, copying and moving events or range selections on layers, and more.

• The Editors & More (04:10) - Explore new scale highlighting & colouring, lyric handling, automation stretching, and arrow tool functionality in the Editor windows. And learn about the new Event Editors folder in the Browser, Macro organizer improvements, and the new send MIDI clock option for hardware controllers.

6.5 Update

• Understanding Spatial Audio (02:12) - Learn about the new concepts and terminology used in the Studio One 6.5 implementation of Spatial Audio.

• Spatial Audio Setup (03:34) - See how to configure existing stereo projects to Spatial Audio and how to map inputs and outputs to your audio hardware.

• The Panners (04:29) - Explore the surround and object banners built in to Studio One 6.5.

• The Renderer (04:26) - Learn how to get the most from headphone binaural monitoring by customizing the binaural modes, how to enable separate stereo speaker and binaural headphone monitoring, make overall VCA style adjustments to the combined bed, and more.

• Exporting & Importing Atmos Mixes (02:33) - Discover how to export your Atmos mix as a single consolidated ADM BWF format file and how to import Atmos mixes directly into Studio One.

• Plug-ins Enhanced for Multi-Channel Audio (05:25) - See how to mute specific channels in effects updated for multi-channel use and get a quick flyover of the multi-channel Surround Delay and Open Air 2 plug-ins.

• Other New Features (01:46) - See how to work with ARA audio editors directly in the Studio One Project window and learn about the new open-source DAWproject file format for file compatibility between DAWs.