Sidechaining refers to the practice of using the signal level of an input to control the compression level of another signal. When the external signal is stronger than a specified amplitude (threshold), the compressor acts more strongly to reduce output gain on the sidechained track. It is useful in a variety of situations including: Creating a pumping effect in electronic music Automatically …
How To Tempo Sync By Tapping Tempo In Studio One
In this video tutorial I show how to tempo sync in Studio One by tapping tempo. The most efficient way to use this trick is with a macro that splits an event on each barline. You can make the macro yourself inside S1, or you can use the one I’ve made. Copy /paste this code into How to set up …
Guide To Orchestral Scoring In Studio One – Part 1 Intro & Basics: Percussion
Part 1 Intro & Basics Continued 5. Section Review: Percussion Percussion instruments have been around since the dawn of humanity. They are the eldest of all instrument families (save, arguably, for the human voice). Some of the earliest specimens in the form of shaped rocks have been dated to around 165,000 years ago. In modern times, the instruments have matured …
Guide To Orchestral Scoring In Studio One – Part 1 Intro & Basics: Brass
Part 1 Intro & Basics Continued 4. Brass: Brass instruments were originally intended as outdoor instruments- they were used for hunting, military functions (including in battle), royal fanfares, communication across long distances, and to announce emergencies to a township. Primitive brass instruments did not allow the flexibility (or the accuracy in tuning) to render them suitable for use in composed …
Quick Tip: How To Transfer Your Session Templates To A New System
Question: “I just installed Studio One on a new computer. How can I transfer my old recording templates to it without having to make them all again?” Answer: Transferring Studio One templates from one machine to another is easy! All you need to do is copy & paste the template file from the old installation to the new one. Make sure …
How To Debug A Studio One Song That Won’t Open
What could be more nightmarish than trying to re-open a mix that you’ve spent hours working on, only to encounter a fatal error that means you cannot open the .song file? We all know that sinking feeling you get when you first realize you may have lost hours of hard work. It’s especially painful if you may have lost a …
Routing Multi-Timbral Kontakt Instruments To Separate Outputs In Studio One 3
If you’re a Kontakt user running a large project full of virtual instruments, it can be very useful to have multiple patches loaded on a single instance of Kontakt, and route each of those patches to individual channels for mixing and processing. It allows you to consolidate your plugin instances thereby saving processing power. Here’s how! Insert an instance of …
How To Cycle Between MIDI Channels Using Keyswitching In Kontakt
In this free video tutorial I show a cool trick for using keyswitching in Native Instruments Kontakt to cycle between MIDI channels. A script is required which can be downloaded here: https://www.orangetreesamples.com/blog/free-keyswitch-router-multiscript
Guide To Orchestral Scoring In Studio One – Part 1 Intro & Basics: Strings
Part 1 Intro & Basics Continued 3. Strings: During the string sections relatively brief history as an orchestral section, it has seen a meteoric rise to prominence and indeed dominance in the ensemble. Innumerable scores from all periods demonstrate that composers have treated woodwind and brass as accessories to the string section, to which they typically entrust their most essential …
Quick Tip: Export Individual Sounds From A VSTi In Studio One
Sometimes, it is useful to be able to export individual sounds from a VSTi. Perhaps you want to edit the samples in an external editor, or maybe you want to use the sounds in an entirely different context (Like an app, or as a sound effect) In this quick tip, we’ll look at how to export all the sounds from …
How to Use MIDI Learn in Studio One
MIDI Learn is the ability to assign DAW and plugin controls to physical knobs and faders on a MIDI control surface. Very useful for dynamically controlling filters, panning, volumes, delays and many other parameters that may change over the course of a track. Make sure your control surface or keyboard is set up properly in Studio One. In this case, …
Guide To Orchestral Scoring In Studio One – Part 1 Intro & Basics: Woodwinds
Part 1 Intro & Basics Continued 2. Woodwinds: Of all the instrument families of the orchestra, the woodwinds have consistently proven the most difficult to define. The term “woodwind” can be a misleading one, as the various instruments are made of assorted materials including silver, brass, plastic and wood. Suffice to say that every instrument we now classify as woodwind …
Guide To Orchestral Scoring In Studio One – Part 1 Intro & Basics: Preamble
Part 1: Intro & Basics 1. Preamble: Writing for the virtual orchestra is an art that has come a long way in the last two decades or so. With the advances in computer hardware, sequencing software, MIDI and instrument sampling, it’s now easier than ever to create astonishingly professional sounding orchestral music using readily-available tools, even for the beginner. Although …
Guide To Orchestral Scoring In Studio One – Part 1 Intro & Basics: Choir
Part 1 Intro & Basics Continued 6. Section Review: Choir More than any other group, the human voice is often omitted from discussions about orchestration and composition for large ensembles. It is rarely considered part of the orchestra, and indeed, one often neglects to think of the voice as a musical instrument at all despite it being the eldest and …
A Detailed Overview Of The Chorder In Studio One 4
In this free video tutorial, I give a detailed walk through of how to use the Chorder found within the Note FX included in Studio One 4.
17 Ways to Optimize Your Windows PC for Studio One
Microsoft Windows has been the world’s number one operating system for almost 30 years – it runs on everything from desktop PCs, laptops, tablets, phones, ATM machines, electronic billboards and many other devices. Because of its ubiquity, there are an enormous combination of hardware settings, system settings and audio settings available that can affect how Studio One will run on …
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Understanding Audio Setup in Studio One
The audio setup dialogue is where you’ll configure your audio hardware. Here you can set options for sound card, sample rate, bit depth, multicore processing and many other useful settings. Audio Device Here you will choose which soundcard you want to use with Studio One. You may use either an internal sound driver, or an external audio interface if you …
Bussing in Studio One
Bussing simply means routing audio from one or more tracks to an “auxiliary” track in order to process them as a single unit. Think of it as putting an audio signal on a “bus”, to send it from one place to another. For instance, if you wanted to put a reverb on 10 different tracks, you might use bussing. Rather …
How to use Audio Bend in Studio One
Audio Bend is similar to Elastic Audio in Pro Tools or Audio Warp in Cubase: it’s a way of bending, stretching and molding audio around in time without affecting the pitch. It is very useful for manipulating an out-of-time performance or can be used creatively to achieve brand new sounds. First, click the Audio Bend icon to show the …
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