Automation is an extremely important tool. In Studio One it’s even more important than some other DAWs since S1 does not have any modulation capabilities; automation is the only way to move controls around ‘automatically’.
- Presonus Studio One Pitch Shift
- Studio One Pitch Shift
- Pitch Shift Matlab
- Pitch Shift Vst
- Studio One Transpose
- Pitch Shift Online
- Pitch Shift Studio One 3
Studio One excels largely in editing and ‘penning in’ automation, but is seriously lacking in some areas. Let’s investigate
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- Writing with a controller
- Editing automation
- Conclusion
Assigning midi to a control
Assigning a midi controller to a specific in-daw control is not difficult, but could be improved.
First you have to open your external devices window (the rightmost down pointing arrow in the upper section of the picture), move the controllers you want to map to have them available.
Then in the DAW, you move the thing you want to map and then what you want to map it to. Both of these will show in the upper left. Press the left-facing triangle in the middle and they are now mapped.
I’ve seen better, I’ve seen worse. The most bothersome thing is that you apparently can’t map NRPN, Sysex, notes, velocity, pitch bend etc… Only midi CC. For me the exclusivity of CC control is a damning oversight that makes this feature very frustrating for me.
Punching automation
Nothing here to see folks! It really sucks, confining automation changes appears to be only doable by hand.
Freehand
Well, it does what you’d expect, but with no density or thinning controls.
Shapes
There are a few basic shapes you can add: Sine, Saw, Square, Triangle and Parabola. You can change the phase offset, frequency and DC offset of these shapes.
There’s no way to adjust the automation density, change the slope of the parabola or to manually enter a frequency for the shapes. Fine control of frequency is only attained through the grid settings.
It is a bit weird that the manual calls them ‘Figures’. Doesn’t exactly make searching for this easy.
Transform
The transform tool is super cool. Just watch the gif. It’s also exceptionally useful.
A weird issue with it is that once you draw the transform box, it seems rather difficult to get rid of it!
Trim
Trimming manually works as expected. Select points or space between points and hover your mouse at the top of the lane/track till you see the horizontal trim cursor. Good enough.
Other
You can edit the literal value of an automation point by right clicking on it. Unfortunately you can not change the location of the value here. Unfortunate, as that would be extremely useful.
Presonus Studio One Pitch Shift
Missing
The only way to add automation to a currently existing automation is to create a VCA, make your secondary automation, then merge it. Some other DAWs allow you to directly add/subtract automation as you write it, which is an exceptionally useful feature.
Studio One only comes with the basic automation modes: Off, Read, Touch, Latch and Write.
Read mode is automatically turned on when automation is written, which is nice compared to some DAWs that don’t do that. Touch only writes automation when an assigned controller is touched, which requires a touch-sensitive controller for optimum usefulness. Latch turns on automation when a controller is touched and then doesn’t turn it off, meaning it will continue to write the current value of the controller until you stop. Write is simply an ‘overwrite’ mode.
Other DAWs have all sorts of features for adjusting how and when automation is written. S1 only contains what I’ve listed here and nothing else. DAW automation has really advanced in the last 10 years with all sorts of excellent ways to handle complex workflows for film, large audio projects and crazy electronic production. Studio One is about a decade in the past here.
So apparently S1 has a feature called ‘Instrument Part Automation’. How exactly this is helpful, I’ve yet to figure out.
I actually can’t figure out why this is useful because nowhere else in the manual does the term ‘Instrument Part’ appear. I don’t know what an instrument part is or why having automation part of it is important.
S1 automatically attaches automation to audio regions, so that’s not it… I think. Instrument tracks have all the same modes as audio tracks, so there’s nothing special there either. My best guess is that this simply allows you to edit automation for an instrument in the ‘editor’ for the midi region.
I’m actually really confused by this, and once again the Studio One fails to actually explain this.
Automation tracks are simply tracks that only contain automation. They can have automation for basically any controls in the mixer which is largely where they become useful.
Things like busses and VCAs don’t display in the main view, so they don’t have an obvious way of editing automation. Automation tracks allow you to essentially put those ‘mixer-only’ entities in to your main view.
They are also quite useful for decontextualizing large ‘song wide’ changes from the instruments themselves. If you have a crescendo that affects a number of tracks, you could easily group all the automation specific to that crescendo in to an automation track. Since it can contain automation from all over, you can have a single track that contains the automation for a single ‘idea’. Very useful.
Good
- Editing automationThe automation editing tools are excellent, barring the inability to enter specific frequencies on the periodic drawing options. The transform tool is amazing.
- Automation tracksI’ve found automation tracks to be particularly useful. I really enjoy the idea of thinking of automation as a function of the arrangement rather than as a function of the instrument. Automation tracks allow you to work with that mindset.
Bad
- Moving automationAutomation moves with regions (if you have “automation follows events turned on), but if you overlap regions then the overlapped automation is deleted. Yes, deleted. You don’t get it back by un-overlapping the parts, you have to undo. There is no way to cross-fade automation or ‘keep’ automation. This applies to the ‘instrument part automation’, which implies to me that the feature doesn’t really store automation in instrument ‘parts’… but I still dont know what an instrument part even is anyway!There’s no way to move an automation point to exactly where you want, and when you do move it, the current value is displayed in whatever your grid’s timebase is. Not exactly what I want when I turn the grid off!
- Automation densityApparently, there’s no way to control automation density in Studio One. Complete bummer. I can’t figure out how to change how often automation points are written or how to thin out points that already exist.Really big issue IMO. There are times where you need very fine-grained control of your automation, and times where you want to thin out things to reduce CPU load. No can do here.If it’s possible, it’s not in the manual.
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- No punch, no preview.There’s no way to punch in automation unless you have a touch-sensitive controller. There’s no preview feature to allow you to punch in automation and only commit it when approved.
- No beziers, no splines.There’s the parabola shape, but I can’t figure out how to change the slope if necessary. You can finagle what resembles the curve you want by using the shape tools, but it’s painful.Once again, stuck in the DAW features of the last decade.
- Missing ‘extra modes’Trim to… cross-over… add, etc. Lots of missing modes of automation that are extremely useful in some contexts. Nuendo and Sequoia really have this down.Also worth mentioning that there’s no ‘Trim current automation’ mode, which essentially modulates your current automation by the incoming data. This is probably the most common missing feature in S1.
Summary
Mostly, Studio One has the bare basic automation features that you’d expect from a DAW back in 1998. The transform tool is useful (but not unique), and that’s about it.
This is not really where S1 shines at all. VCA Faders really help out for day to day work, but when you really want to dig in to more advanced automation workflows, S1 is a total disappointment.
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Studio One Pitch Shift
on Jun 14, 2013 in Presonus Studio One 0 comments
Melodyne has long been used by musicians and producers looking to pitch correct audio like we're used to doing with MIDI events. Gary Hiebner explores Melodyne's integration in PreSonus Studio One.
Possibly one of the greatest features in Studio One Professional is the integration of Melodyne into the application. This gives you the option to use Melodyne's remarkable pitch and time correction algorithms on your audio events in Studio One. As a result the audio editing and manipulation possibilities are endless: From pitch and time correcting your audio through to creating completely new audio parts from the original audio event. Let's take a look at how to use Melodyne within Studio One.
Step 1 ' Audio Event with Melodyne
Pitch Shift Matlab
Melodyne Essential is the package that comes bundled with Studio One Professional. But if you have Melodyne Editor installed on your system, this will be integrated into it. Melodyne Essential is slightly cut down with what tools are available, but you can still get great results.
Melodyne can be applied to any audio event in your songs. Select an event, go to the Audio Menu, and choose Edit with Melodyne.
You can also right click on the event. A contextual menu will come up, scroll down to Audio and you'll see the Edit with Melodyne option there as well. Or you can use the shortcut Command-M (Mac) or Ctrl-M (PC). This will open up the Melodyne Editor within a window in Studio One. It analyzes the audio and the Melodyne's blobs are shown representing the pitch value of the respective audio notes.
Pitch Shift Vst
Step 2 ' Pitch Correction
On the left is a panel showing the pitch indication of these '˜blobs', which is the official name for these audio pitch visual representations. Lets pitch correct an audio event. Select all the blobs using the shortcut Command-A (Mac) or Ctrl-A (PC). Alternatively, you can lasso around the blobs to select them.
Now click on the Correct Pitch box. This will open the Correct Pitch dialog box. Set the Correct Pitch Center to 100% for perfect pitch correction. You can choose a smaller percentage for less pitch correction. You might need to correct the placement of some of the blobs, so always listen through after the pitch correction and make changes if necessary.
Melodyne tries its best to find the correct pitch for the blobs, but some may be placed on the wrong pitch after the correction. To correct the out-of-place blob use the Main Tool, select the blob and then move it to another pitch. You can also correct the pitch drift between the blobs for smoother transitions between each blobs and its respective pitch.
Step 3 ' Create a New Idea
You don't have to just correct the pitch. You can move these blobs around to different locations to change the whole phrasing and melody of the audio. These processes are nondestructive. It doesn't alter the original audio event at all.
Studio One Transpose
To hear the original audio event just bypass the Melodyne instance. This can be seen in the Inspector. Use F4 to bring up the Inspector and scroll down to the Event FX. Here you'll see the Melodyne instance. There will be a bypass button. Click on this to bypass Melodyne. This is a good way to hear what result Melodyne has had on the audio.
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Step 4 ' Render Melodyne Results
If you're happy with the changes made by Melodyne you can render this to a new audio event. Go back to the Event FX in the Inspector. There you will see a render button. Click this, and it will render out the audio event with the Melodyne processing to a new audio event, and the Melodyne instance will be removed from the event.
If you want to go back and make any changes you can click Restore to restore the Melodyne instance on the audio event.
Step 5 ' The Algorithms
Melodyne will detect if the material being analyzed is a melodic or percussive element. In the above steps the audio event was a melodic piece. Let's say you analyze a drum audio event with Melodyne then the percussive algorithm will be used. Instead of pitch notes being displayed on the left panel, it will show tones register in numbers. So what would you use Melodyne for on percussive material? Well you could use it to time-edit and correct the audio material. If you hover over the edges of a blob with the Main Tool it changes to the time-stretch tool.
Now you can either stretch or shrink a blob. Plus you can use the main Tool to move around the blobs creating a whole new drum piece. You could also use the Quantize Time window to correct the timing of the drums through Melodyne.
Conclusion
That's how to make use of Melodyne within Studio One. It's great to have this included and integrated into Studio One. Being able to take advantage of Melodyne's advanced pitch and time correcting algorithms gives you an ace up your sleeve with your productions. You can even manipulate the audio events into completely new ideas. Try this out in your Studio One songs.
For more tips and techniques on Studio One and Melodyne check out the following tutorials:
Pitch Shift Online
http://www.macprovideo.com/tutorial/songwriters-musicians-toolbox
Pitch Shift Studio One 3
http://www.macprovideo.com/tutorial/melodyne101
http://www.macprovideo.com/tutorial/melodyne201-advanced