hey everyone this time on tim talks
audio we talk about importing song data
in studio one and in many other daws you
have the ability of
maybe starting your mix you're working
on a whole album or an ep or just a
number of songs from the same artist
whether it's yourself or anybody you're
working with
and you're in the mixing process now you
maybe have done a song and you want to
be able to use that baseline of what you
started in your mix with song number one
and copy those settings to the other
songs within the same project other daws
do this and they call it some different
things but in studio one it's called
import song data this is something you
can do in the pro version but there are
ways we can get around it with the
artist version as well so let's dive
into the daw and take a look so here we
are inside of our session and you can
see this is
just the files that i got from my artist
the the band is called the 39 and this
is the second song in an ep that i'm
mixing for them
but
i've already mixed the first one and i'm
starting to work on the second one but
you can see there's nothing going on
minus a little panning that i remembered
from the first song but i don't want to
have to go in and remember all the
things that i did i just want things to
be quick and easy so let's start with
what the studio one artist users can do
you'll need to go into your old session
or the first mix of your project
and whatever your inserts are you can
use the down arrow
and you can come down to the bottom
we'll just scroll all the way down and
what you're going to do is store effects
chain and you are going to have to do
this a bunch of times across all of your
channels and i would say name it
something appropriate i might do
something like the band name or the song
name plus the instrument of the effects
chain that i'm using now in a song like
this there's a lot of tracks a bunch of
them might be duplicates for other
things that i do there's lots of guitars
and bass and vocals so you can see how
this can be a bit of a tedious task but
it helps carry things over and speed up
the process a little bit because it's
all of the same sounds that you got from
the first mix
but if you have pro or are a presonus
sphere member you have import song data
and this makes it so much faster and
easier to get you working towards
completing the project and completing
the album of course we want to do our
keyboard shortcuts but i'm going to show
you where it is anyway you come up to
song and right here import song data on
mac it's command shift i and on pc
that'll be ctrl shift i
when you open this up you then can
navigate to wherever you have the other
song stored i'm going to do that real
quick
okay so i've navigated to where my other
song files are and i'm going to choose
the latest version because i made sure
while i was working with this band i
sent them a bunch of versions and we
updated things as we went along so i'm
going to choose the most recent one
which i know is version 2.2
and when you open it up you'll get this
pop-up it might load the song depending
on how extensive your mix was in the
other songs but you'll get this window
and here you can see
all of the tracks from the other song so
it shows me everything all this symbol
right here means waveform or this is a
bus and it tells me all of my different
channels here's my effects because i've
labeled them and i know what they are
and this allows me to do a bunch of
different things if we only look at the
right hand side real quick we're going
to ignore the left which is where all of
our tracks and buses and effects
channels and everything would be
on the right hand side it gives you your
track options events
you would pull the events and the active
events from the other song into the song
you're working on so
the drum takes the guitar takes all
things like that i don't need that in
this it would also do the layers all of
the additional layers if you were doing
layer recording
i got this from the bands who recorded
with somebody else and i'm just mixing i
know that i don't have other layers i
don't need this
if i had automation happening on the
other song
for any reason i might need that to come
over
but
again because i'm just kind of setting
the baseline for this mix i don't need
this right now i'm going to automate it
to suit this song and i kind of don't
want those moves that i did on the other
song then underneath that media options
copy files to song folder i don't need
to do that because i already have all of
my files in this session and i don't
need any of the files from that session
maybe you do and here's how you can pull
that over but right now i don't but this
is the important part and what we're
really getting at today is the console
options the volume and pan i want to
bring that over because that was my
balance from the other song that the
band has heard and i want to use that as
a bass line so volume and pan
really important inserts this is how
you're going to get your entire plug-in
chain and everything you have going on
all of the settings in those plugins all
of this is going to carry over and i'm
also going to pull over the sends the
amount of send the panning for the send
pre-fader post fader all of this is
going to get pulled in
all of that data is going to get
imported into this song and last but not
least if i was using any kind of virtual
instruments so presence or impact or any
other third party vst instrument i can
bring that in as well so i don't have
anything selected on my left hand side
now i know i'm just going to bring in
the drums to get myself going i could do
everything but i just want to bring in
the drums and here's another cool thing
because i use buses what i can do is i
can just click on my drum buss
and everything underneath automatically
gets selected so now all of my drum
tracks that are in the folder are going
to get brought over okay everything i
need is selected now all i need to do is
hit ok and the process will happen what
it will not do is apply those tracks to
whatever you have in this session there
is a feature in pro tools where you can
match your tracks and if it has a
relative name
that matches you can go in and say like
oh well i have a kick track already
because here's the audio file and i want
my plugins on the kick track but we can
easily adjust for this so let's just go
ahead and bring in those tracks
and there we go now yes
this is where things for import song
data can start to get a little
weird and again i'm going to use the
term tedious because what we're going to
do now is i'm going to actually you can
see here's all of my faders with a bunch
of different plugins and stuff going on
but i'm going to hide the console real
quick and you can see there's a bunch of
empty tracks here so what i can do now
is i can start dragging and dropping all
of my drums
and those files to the new tracks that i
just imported so usually i would just
drag the files in and start my mix and
it would create the tracks but what i'm
going to do now is i have my kick in and
i'm going to hold down shift i need
another kick and my kick out
and now i can just drag these to the
other tracks
and drop them on the ones with all of
the plugins i'm going to make it real
easy and i'm just going to find my kicks
here's my kick
i'm going to hold down commands real
quick or control on a
pc click on these three tracks kick in
kick in duplicate something i did and
kick out
and i'm just going to bring these up to
the top i'm dragging them up
and put them underneath if i open up the
console
there's my three that i have selected
and they have their plugins now i just
want the audio files from the original
kicks and i still have them selected and
i'm just going to drag them down
so now
these tracks are empty they don't have
any plugins i don't need them i can
right click and hide track or honestly
there's nothing going on and i don't
need them anymore i can just remove them
now my kick drums are sitting on the
kick drum
tracks that i imported from the other
song so my fab filter is in here doing
its thing on both my kick in and my kick
out the sends for my kick in those have
pulled over as well
and as you continue the process all the
processing from the other song is going
to get imported into the track you're
working on this is a minor step that you
should do at the beginning of mixing the
rest of a project
but in my opinion it definitely speeds
up the process because i just have to
drag audio files around and that's easy
enough a little bit of organization a
little bit of drag and drop and then i'm
good i have everything based from the
first song something that band has
already approved and now i can keep
working on the remainder of the project
with a bass line and then just adjust to
the song as necessary something i didn't
do before but i'm going to do for you
right now is a quick before and after to
show you why this process makes things
so much faster and easier here's the
before drums
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and here's the after
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now all i need to do is go in adjust my
settings to suit the song maybe clean up
a couple things here or there but now
i'm already in a much better position
and i don't have to start from scratch
each and every time that's all for now
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