Hey everyone
this time on Tim talks audio track creation and
Organization inside studio one if you record or program anything it's based on tracks
tracks are the paths where audio or MIDI are recorded to
In Studio One you have audio
instrument or MIDI tracks and automation and
In studio one artist or professional you also get folder tracks and we'll get to those later
Creating tracks is very easy
You can start with the track menu on top and click add tracks to open a dialog box where you can add
Multiple tracks at the same time if you need a quick single mono track, you can click this option
If you need a stereo, you would click this option and a quick instrument track is just below
Automation so on and so forth
We're going to open up the dialog box and make a few it at the same time
Tracks add tracks and it opens up the dialog box. We'll name it
drums
We know it's gonna be audio
Depending on your interface and many other things is the number of tracks you need to create. Let's say 14 in this case. I
Like my drums to be light blue
can change the input to be mono or stereo and
They'll all be the same way, but you can change some to be stereo after you've created it
If you have presets you can load them here studio one also comes with a number of presets
You can assign the inputs based on your interface and make them ascending from one till whatever
And the same thing for outputs
For now, I'll leave these settings as they are
Hate okay, and there's all my drums
Then I could go in and rename them as I see fit. I'm gonna do that real quick and fast-forward through it
So here we go. I've named all my tracks and as you can probably tell from most of these they're gonna be mono
Except I like to record my overheads and my rooms in stereo and in the Edit window. It's as easy as clicking
This little circle that instantly changes it from a mono track to a stereo track and you can adjust your inputs from there
Let's say we also want to record the bass player at the same time. Another way to create tracks is to double click
Under the last available track in the left pane
This opens up the dialog box where you can name change your count and colors same way we did before
Seems like I had this one ready
Another way to make tracks really fast is to use the hotkey hotkey for adding tracks is the letter T
This opens up the dialog box and as we did before we can change our settings
If you've made too many tracks
It's just as easy by hitting shift T and the track you have selected will be removed from your session
If you need to add it back
you can either undo and pops it right back or
Press T again and add whatever tracks you need in whatever configuration
You may have noticed as I was creating tracks. I was making sure to color them
This is very important in keeping things organized. You can see here
I have just some blank audio in all of these tracks and
Everything is still well organized, but it's a little cluttered and a little small here
We can show off the importance of folder tracks
I can easily grab all of my audio tracks and
bus tracks and effects tracks and MIDI tracks or whatever you want and
Add them into a folder you would select all
Right, click and pack folder now, all of my tracks are in here and the color
Corresponds as well. You can name your folder
And put it right back to your favorite color
Then
When everything's done, it's nice and organized
Now look how organized that is
Everything is packed together
It fills the whole screen
nicely and whenever we want we can expand with this little arrow in the bottom left of the folder and
See all of the tracks contained within
Another reason to stay organized is in your mix window. You can quickly find whatever fader you're looking for
Because they're all color coordinated
By what works best for you?
That's all for now. I hope you found this informative
And if you did, please like and leave a comment of what might be troubling you in your track creation and organization
Thanks for watching