Studio One 3 Minute Auto Punch

Kicking off a new series on Youtube today. Studio One 3 features explained in 1 minute or less. Designed for user who want to find out how to use a feature in Studio One quickly. Suggestions for others welcomed.

Turn Mono To Stereo With Analog Delay Plugin

Navigating With Song Markers In PreSonus Studio One

Preparing A Mix For Mastering With Studio One Pro

Subtractive EQing Using Presonus Studio One ProEQ Waterfall

Here's a cool tip on how to use Presonus Studio One ProEQ's Waterfall visualization graph to spot trouble areas in your mix.

Tutorial: Bus Automation In PreSonus Studio One 2

Here's a great tool.. Bus automation on Presonus Studio One 2 Professional. Very useful...

Bass DI With PreSonus TubePre V2 Preamp - Setup And Test

Studio One 2 - Turn Mono Tracks Into Stereo

iPad DAW Control Via Wi Fi With xDisplay Remote Monitor App

De-Essing with Presonus Studio One 2

Lesson learned about CPU pops..

All of the sudden a song that we're working on develops horrible CPU pops and crackles when played back though my Audiobox 22VSL. It's to the point where it sounds like a bad AM radio station or better yet.. A bowl of Rice Crispys. Then I discover that pops are being recorded... Panic time!

I do some research and decide to reinstall the Audiobox 22VSL drivers. After that I still have the problem.! Then change the sample rate from 96kHz to 48 kHz.. Boom. CPU rate decrease by half. Lesson.. If you don't have a killer amount of CPU horsepower don't try using 96kHz.

HT

Back On Tracks

A bit of a layoff from recording and producing but we plan to kick it up a notch. My son just finished writing his EP and we've been working on the recording and mix. I have worked quite a bit with Studio One and feel its the best DAW I have ever worked with. So powerful and intuitive. I love it. More to come.

HT

Studio One 2 - How To Add 3rd Party VSTs

This applies to Studio One Producer and Pro versions.  Artist does not support 3rd Party Plugins.

Studio One 2 - How To Get Full Acoustic Guitar Sound

Check out how to get full acoustic guitar sounds by layering tracks and proper panning technique.

Studio One 2 - Automating Track Panning To Tempo

A quick and easy way to automate panning to the tempo of your song using Presonus Studio One version 2.

Studio One 2 - Add Effects On Part of Track With Event FX

A quick and easy way to add an effect on one phrase or note in a track.

Getting Phat Bass Tracks With Melodyne

Unfortunately my bass guitar is not the greatest instrument.  Despite adjusting it constantly it doesn't have a great neck which results in notes becoming sharp as you go up the fret board.   Melodyne to the rescue!  Now my bass lines can be perfect using Melodyne pitch correction integrated into Studio One.   You can also use the Amplitude tool to phatten up notes.  Check out this video I put together that shows how to improve your bass tracks...

Studio One 2 - Stereo Image From Mono Track

Here's a Studio One tip that allows you to turn a mono track into a wide, stereo image.  When I first started working with DAWs I searched forever to figure this out.   Now its a technique I use on nearly every project.  Simple and works well.

Check it out...

Studio One 2 - Melodyne Quick Look

A quick look at the Melodyne plugin and it's integration with Studio One 2. Melodyne is powerful note correction software. I'm sold.   Melodyne comes integrated with Studio One Pro.

Check it out...

New EP Session 3

Made lots of progress during a 4 hour session tonight.   Finished up tracking vocals and correcting a few stops on a few tracks.   Now that all of the notes seem right we'll be getting into the mixing.   Started to work on dynamics and mix of the rhythm section tonight as well as the vocals.

The song has a real driving feel to it.  Need to get just the right sound for the lead guitar.  Will have some time over the holiday to work on it..  We'll probably begin tracking a  few of the acoustic tunes too.

I'm continually amazed but the features of Studio One.    Mixcraft was fine to start but it really is not anywhere near the robustness of Studio One.     Over the 3 sessions we've had so far I would venture to guess that we've saved a few hours compared to if we had recorded with Mixcraft.

Side note.  Thinking of getting a new keyboard.  The Casio I have doesn't have velocity sensitive keys and is really a toy with a MIDI port.   Maybe this weekend I'll splurge for one.  Probably go for a 61 key unit that has assignable knobs to control VST instruments.

Last thing.. I've decided to name my studio Hometracks Studio.  The name syncs up with this blog and my HomeTracks YouTube Channel so it made sense to me.

More to come...