- I'm Mike Russell.
In this series we'll look at recording,
editing, and mixing audio
in Studio One.
(electronic tones)
So let's start by recording and editing
in Studio One.
Just like you,
I'm new to Studio One,
I've edited for decades,
but Studio One and PreSonus is fairly new,
although I know that PreSonus
makes some fantastic hardware,
so I think their software
is equally going to be good.
I know this is targeted very much at musicians,
mastering, and recording,
but we can also record and mix
our own vocals and other bits, as well.
So let me start off with "Mike Test" as the name.
It's gonna record into
the "Studio One Songs" folder,
sample rate, 44.1,
which is absolutely fine.
Don't want any files.
Wanna start with a clean, new area to work from.
So click okay.
And here we are.
This is what you'll see
when you first load Studio One.
And we can get started recording with ease.
But the first thing,
we need to throw down a track.
It's kind of similar to Pro Tools in that sense.
So you could go to the Track menu
and select "Add Tracks,"
or you could just hit the "T" on your keyboard.
That's simple enough, right?
And then I can choose "Audio,"
"Instrument," "Automation" or "Folder."
I'm recording audio,
so that will work perfectly for me.
And I'll call this "Mike VO,"
so I know exactly what I'm doing here.
Click "OK,"
and there's my first track.
Okay, now I can really do things.
I can for instance, hit the record,
and of course I'm hearing an echo back.
That's my voice.
Switch off monitor,
and that's not so distracting anymore.
And then to record,
I just go down at the transport controls
at the bottom of Studio One
and hit record.
Hello, this is Mike Russell,
for the very first time
recording into Studio One
to find out what it's capable of,
and how to use things inside it.
And I must say, I like the interface.
It's pretty, it's slick,
it's really cool.
Everything looks nice.
They've done this well.
Let's switch off the record here,
and let's see if we can just play back
by hitting "Play."
Now, of course,
it starts playing from where the cursor is,
so I'll need to move that cursor
back to the start, and hit "Play."
- [Recording] Hello, this is Mike Russell,
for the very first time
recording into Studio one
to find out what it's cap-
- Okay, that's pretty cool.
That works really nicely.
Now I can, of course,
select items and play back,
but it's not playing back my selection,
interestingly,
it just keeps going.
But I can select
and I can also move
if I go to the bottom of the audio.
So at the top I'm doing selecting,
and at the bottom,
I'm doing movement of audio in time.
Of course,
I've got bars and beats up here,
but I can always change the time base
from bars to seconds
so I can work in time,
if I'm used to working in time,
that's a possibility,
and my transport controls down here
will reflect that. Now you'll see I can go to the start,
and just like with other DAWs,
I can trim in here
and I can trim the outro here.
So that's all neat and tidy.
Now if I want to throw down another track,
"T," it's as simple as that,
and we'll call this "Mike Guest,"
say I was doing a podcast for instance,
and then I could go place my cursor here
and say,
"And here's another recording-"
But notice nothing's laying down.
Gotta enable the track record,
switch off monitor,
place the cursor where I want to record,
and here's me a second time
recording something else.
I like the way it changes from green
to then its track default color
after the record has finished.
So already we've got something really great here.
So I've got all my controls up at the top,
the opportunity to select a range
or, indeed, select at the bottom
and move around in time.
But if I hold down "Command" or "Control,"
and left click,
I can actually choose a secondary icon,
so an alternate tool.
And I might go for the "Split Tool,"
instead I've got "Eraser,"
"Paint," "Mute,"
all these things.
"Bend" is a good one I'll be covering
in a future video.
Let's go for the "Split"
as my secondary tool.
And now you can see I can select a range.
I can do all of that stuff. I can still move around,
but if I hold down the "Command" key,
or "Control" on pc,
I can actually do a split here and here,
and then I can move separate little bits around
like this, just this bit,
and I can cut bits out
and do kind of cross fades if I need to
by taking this bit
and moving it and fading it over like so.
And all of this is possible.
It's a real cinch to get started
recording and editing in Studio one.
I think I'm really going to like it.
And keep watching me
for my journey on Studio One,
and how to do various things
like compression and cross fading
and all the things we need to do
when we're editing audio.
If you've got any questions for me,
or you make any discoveries yourself
about Studio One,
let me know in the comments down below.
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