My Favorite Features of Studio One 6: Smarter, More Customizable, and Cool New Features

welcome to get offset my name is Emily

and as the weather gets cooler

My Hope for you is that you have a

sweater cardigan or flannel that you

love as much as I love

this flannel here

which is to say you’re going to be

seeing a lot of this flannel for the

next like I’m in Seattle so nine months

I’m not here to talk about flannel

though I could all day I’m here to talk

about presonus’s Studio One six their

newest iteration of my personal favorite

Daw full disclosure though Sweetwater

and PreSonus are sponsoring this video I

have been a customer of PreSonus Studio

One for several years now you’ve

probably seen some other videos I did

with it and if I’m ever recording

anything uh it’s through Studio One I

even pay for Studio One I pay for the

PreSonus sphere which includes Studio

One Professional and it’s updated every

time there’s a new studio one out and

all of their plugins sound packs Etc I

personally think it’s a great deal

um but if you just want to get studio

and professional outright or different

one of their versions outright that’s

also an option

just so you know some of the things I’ll

be covering in this video are only

available in the profession or sphere

it’s not all the features it’s just a

few I’ll do my best to shout out when

it’s my understanding that it’s only

available in professional all right

let’s get started

this is the home page of Studio One six

and if you’re familiar with Studio One

you’re probably thinking that this looks

a lot like it has in previous iterations

and you’d be right but I’m going to

highlight a few of my favorite features

that are new in this edition of Studio

One first things first I have artist

profiles right now I’m set to my band

Sunday Crush but if I click this little

icon right there

I can switch to my personal profile and

my personal music uh some things are the

same just really quickly your news feed

which always has good information in it

your setup so you can see your sample

rate and stuff at a glance and the

interface that you’re using if you want

to change that

you just click there

and change it

now here is the most recent files that’s

pretty standard and I’m used to working

in this view however it has been a

nightmare if I’m trying to find

something that’s kind of older and this

is where things get I think really cool

you have songs and folders now so let’s

say I have something new this test song

I was working on earlier I can either

create a new folder for it or I can move

it to one of my existing folders

yes I do and there it is in my songs

you’ll also see I have pinned some items

and I can similarly pin

let’s do the Sunday Crush intro

close that up and you’ll see pinned

right up here you’ll also see penned in

your recent files so you can see things

at a glance and find the things that you

think are most important fairly quickly

let me pull myself back up

hi hi I’m in the corner now

so Studio One is touting this as the

most personalized iteration of Studio

One ever and also the smartest and

here’s something that they’re talking

about traditionally in Studio One you

could like build your own template those

took a little bit of time to load in my

experience or you would start with a

blank slate now if you go to create a

new song it gives you these smart

options of templates and then you also

have your user templates if you create

any I haven’t created any yet so we have

these very common uh tasks that people

do in Studio One now have these smart

templates let’s go ahead and look at

some of these we have master and release

that’s for mastering songs

a set of tracks for publishing that’s

not something I do a lot rehearse and

perform create a setlist in rehearsal

for performance with real instruments

virtual instruments and backing tracks

this also has lyric integration in the

professional version only and though I’m

not going to show it to you in the song

view I will show it to you in a

recording View and explain to you how I

personally use that

play now just a single instrument uh so

we have Virtual Piano you got your synth

you can play your guitar into an Empire

amp and cabinet Sim

or drums I’m not going to go with that

one um I’m gonna skip record now because

that’s what I’m going to go to

ultimately we have produced beats which

is actually pretty cool create content

with or without video and I will get

into this but this is the first version

of Studio One where you can click and

drag a video into your timeline this is

a game changer for composition people

who are composing for TV film student

projects things like that have

traditionally had to like have the video

on one side and their audio in another

and try to sync it up

this makes it so that you can time

things really specifically and

intentionally I just think it’s a game

changer and that’s not even something

that I do a lot but I can imagine that

being extremely helpful and cool

and then you can import files to mixing

record directly from your interface

and then we have a demo song that you

can explore if you are interested in

doing that so I’m going to go to record

now with guitar and vocal so I’m going

to go ahead and name this

record now example and I’m going to set

my sample rate to 48 that’s what my

interface is set to

and hit OK

so this is what that view looks like

there are some hints for these different

smart templates

let’s take a look it’s just pretty basic

stuff select your input Channel

set your gain arm your tracks start

recording and then a link to learn more

so this comes with a few options it has

a female vocals and male vocals I’m

going to go ahead and remove that track

set my input

for both guitar and vocals and you’ll

see that this is loaded with uh impact

their drumming software so I know that

I’ve used easy drummer in a lot of these

videos but impact it’s it’s not it’s not

hard to use either in fact there are

parts of it that I think make it easier

to use personally I use impact if I want

to create something very basic before I

go and build a full drum track though

you can build full drum tracks and

impact quite easily but I like using

that in place of a metronome because

it’s going to feel a lot more organic

that way

so let’s go ahead and

create

a pattern a drum pattern

so I right clicked and I went to event

I’m sorry I went to instrument parts and

went convert pattern to part

or a part to pattern is how it was and I

have my drum types right here

so I could do four on the floor if I

wanted to or I could do kind of

a different kick pattern we can listen

to that

that’s a pretty standard one uh get some

hi-hats

all right

um let’s do the hi-hat

like that

no actually I want the hi-hat like that

and then I’m going to have the hi-hat

petal

and I’m going to scoot that over like so

and let’s do a snare on the two and the

four and let’s see how that sounds

foreign

this is kind of my default drum beat

so going back to that view here with the

mixers you’ll see that impact has the

kick snare hi-hat Toms and symbols in

separate tracks so you can mix them

differently you can pan them you can add

effects and this is the first version of

Studio One where you can add sidechain

effects to Virtual instruments so that’s

really cool if you want to do like a

gated kick or something like that oh

yeah and here’s the the main for the the

drums

and you can see they have that fat

Channel insert which looks like this so

they’ve even already applied some

effects to these instruments

you can see the send on the kick goes to

drum room

that’s Reverb

and similarly we’ll look at our vocals

which are right here

um

it’s going to sound weird when I do this

but I want you to hear what the vocals

sound like so I’m going to mute myself

within my other recording so

obviously that’s a lot of Reverb but the

vocal verb is right here you can reduce

the level of that Reverb right there you

can also make more changes to the Reverb

by double clicking

and maybe changing it to a small room

making the size a little bit smaller

yeah okay

cool let’s talk about

something else that’s kind of new in

Studio One the pro EQ has gotten some

updates though not a complete overhaul

so let’s set this to vocals obviously

you’re not going to be able to hear this

but female pop just to see

the EQ curve what you can do now that

you couldn’t do before is you can solo

specific bands

this is especially helpful say if you

are recording

drums and there’s just like this kind of

obnoxious frequency in there and you

want to EQ it out traditionally what you

would do is you would

set the cue on one of these to be really

narrow pull it way up with everything

else on and you kind of move it around

until you really heard that specific

frequency and then you kill it so that’s

one way to do it but it’s going to be

easier now that you can just solo those

different frequencies you can find

specifically where that frequency is

without hearing everything else it’s

going to make it a lot easier to find

problem parts

in EQ

so that’s really cool

closing that out

um we can now look at the

the de-esser

we all hate sibilance uh it’s bad in

singing it’s bad in podcasts you can

probably hear some of it now but now you

can hit listen obviously there’s no

track but you can listen uh for those

problematic S’s and then you can reduce

that sound right there so it’s just a

little bit more intelligent and overall

more effective which is great other

plugins that are improved uh include the

auto filter which is very popular one

which I won’t get into there’s also a

vocoder in the professional version

that’s uh pretty neat I was playing

around with it we can

open it up here

little coder

and drag it onto our vocal track and we

can see it here so let me try to

demonstrate

and there are

presets including this one

I can see why it’s called Christmas tree

it doesn’t make I don’t know why you

would use this but you might

this is called Monster this is

[Music]

kitchen

[Music]

so yeah it’s kind of a fun one again

only available in professional

they’re I haven’t really dug into the

vocoder too much because it’s just not

something I generally do

so let’s get back into the

personalization I mean from the guitar

stuff you can see here that uh it has

the amp Sim Empire we can expand that

and then I can go in here and select a

cabinet directly from here let’s go four

by ten like a super Reverb and you can

make those changes now without opening

the whole plugin now you can still do

that

and now this little expanded view is

available for other plugins as well so

if I don’t want to use ampire

I let’s say I want to go over here

and go to my always use folder

that’s new

um I can pull in

a different amp Sim

set it the way I like it

let’s say I want to put fuzz on it so

I’m going to turn on the fuzz

turn up the impedance and the gain

and uh

there we go so next I can expand this

too which you couldn’t previously do

with external plugins and you can see

some important information input type is

mono right now I can switch it to stereo

I can adjust the input level I can turn

the gate on or off

okay threshold

oh and I can turn I can turn over

sampling on or off obviously this isn’t

everything in this plugin but it’s

better than what there previously was

which was really not a whole lot

so I have a guitar track I got Benson I

can see the tuner right there

um so again I wanted to talk a little

bit about the customization because

let’s say I want to go and record but I

noticed that this bar down here it

doesn’t have a pre-count it doesn’t have

anything involving the metronome but I

can customize my views

so to customize your view you just go to

customization edit customization and the

reason that metronome’s not on is

because it’s in an audio editing

um preset and you probably wouldn’t be

using a metronome while you’re editing

so I’m going to go to edit customization

go to transport

I’m going to turn my metronome back on

and let’s say I don’t care about some of

these other things I find them

bothersome

you shouldn’t necessarily find them

bothersome but you might so I’m going to

take those things away like I can even

take away record time

the takeaway sample rate already

I don’t need I don’t need to have that

up there because I know what I set it to

so you can make it a lot less busy if

you really want to and my metronome is

back

so closing that and that’s going to be

called my user defined for it

automatically saves them so I have

another user defined right there there’s

complete that’s going to have everything

minimal it’s going to have almost

nothing

and then basic which will have the

metronome in there

so let me record a little bit of

something I’m going to grab my music man

Cutlass HT and I want to show you a few

other features that some are new to uh

Studio One

and some aren’t actually I don’t know if

this feature is new I just discovered it

while I was messing with a lot of these

other things I’ll be right back so my

guitar is plugged in hit record

[Music]

it’s a little loud

and I can tune and you can see there’s a

little tuner

right in the channel strip there

[Music]

all right

so I’m going to go ahead and record a

little something

[Music]

thank you

[Music]

okay so that is a little guitar part

move that around

turn it off and shrink it back

I’m going to go over here and make the

levels a little bit more apparent and

I’m going to unplug this guitar

and put it back down so

there are some new things in

this little hamburger-esque menu called

Global track visibility

markers are not new

there are cords and a ranger as well as

lyrics and video I’m gonna go to a

ranger

and I’m going to create

two parts

of the song I’m going to go over here

I’m going to rename them

so this is the chorus I started with the

chorus and then I had the verse so now

not only can I easily jump between

different parts of the song

I can also make them a color

to make it more visually interesting or

easier to understand

so let’s say I shouldn’t have started

with the chorus I should start with the

verse

you can just

swap them so let’s hear how that sounds

[Music]

obviously not the smoothest thing in the

world

uh I didn’t really expect it to be but

you get the gist I can move them back

or I can just completely move them

around

if I decided I want the verse to

actually happen twice

I can do that

I can bring the chorus back

and um

I can see how that transition sounds

this is more helpful I think for when

you’re arranging than uh necessarily

recording

you do have to get it quite smooth uh so

if I just done better it wouldn’t sound

so weird but I was doing it pretty

quickly

that was pretty smooth

so I’m actually going to put the chorus

right between the verses

and I’m going to add lyrics that’s a new

feature

again this one’s only available in

professional so to add lyrics

you just click and you’re right

we can go in and put in all of the

lyrics here you can edit them like that

and you can see that they are associated

with

those measures the way I use will will

end up using lyrics in Studio One six is

for cues primarily you can use them in

performances which I’m sure is extremely

helpful but as a guitarist in a band

who’s not also the singer I rely on the

singer’s vocal cues probably more than I

should

so adding those little vocal cues right

here

even if it’s not all the lyrics it’s

going to help me a lot as will using

this arranger tool

um by adding those parts counting it out

adding them and then going into

recording it lessens the chance of me

stopping a section early or hanging on

that section for too long there are a

lot of songs out there where the verses

the first verse is twice as long as the

second verse the second chorus is twice

as long as the first chorus

um so the arranger tool can make it easy

for you to know that and just drop those

different parts in there and then if

like you have certain flourishes in

certain sections

it makes it kind of easier to get those

cues and you can just use them to write

cues as well there’s no reason they have

to be just lyrics though that is what

they were intended for

let’s get back into the personalization

element of Studio 6. it’s going to be

the theme of of this video

I really like that guitar sound and I

want to make sure that I can

replicate that di guitar sound

no matter what track I’m working in so

how do I do that I right click on the

track

I go down here into store track preset

and I name it Buzz guitar and I can add

it to a subfolder I’m going to add it to

my go to dis

there we go

but let’s say I made this guitar track

um this dirty one and now I want to have

a clean one I could do that as well I

can go up here to add track audio

say guitar track two

and then I can load track presets there

are a few things you can do you can just

have an fx chain like this like one of

their defaults or presets I should say

um

I have created that preset I have a few

other presets as well

let’s just do my look at my go to Di’s

and my di guitar here it’s just going to

be a cleaner guitar

so I can copy

go back to the bottom highlight that

paste it in

and let’s solo it

[Music]

same guitar part

different sound just because I change up

the DI

which is pretty pretty pretty cool

something else that’s kind of fun that I

didn’t mention before is now you have

these cute little icons that you could

put in for different tracks instead of

just naming them I actually think that’s

really fun it’s not a big thing but it’s

a cute thing let’s go look at one other

thing there’s one thing on the home page

I didn’t show you before and it’s not

just available on the home page it’s

available in

um project view as well or record now

example View

but I’m going to go to the homepage for

a second I’m going to open up the song

that you might have heard before if

you’ve seen some of my other videos

but you can click up here

and seamlessly

bounce between the different songs you

have open and if I open a another one

let’s just say this example track this

demo track that they have it might take

a second to load there are a lot of

plugins on this one

so I’m not going to use their material

without their permission but I am just

going to show you that if you have three

songs open or more you select them that

way if you only have two songs open you

just click that button up here to toggle

between them

so this is another example of a song

where I have put lyrics I’ve also put

the arranger you can hide any of those

views at any time

the last thing I want to talk about is

being able to add a video track

so that’s brand new

um I’ve actually already added the video

into this example

under the over the guitar solo but again

this is probably most helpful for people

who are writing for film and video

and to see the video

you just navigate to where that starts

hit the video icon and hit play

you can change the size of this

you can move it to another window

and you open and close it by hitting

that video icon or clicking on the video

you can have as many Clips as you’d like

in that video editor I think it’s going

to be helpful with my podcast being able

to drop the video and audio files in

I’ll be able to drop my podcast in the

video with the audio separately and I

can have more control over making

smaller adjustments to the audio versus

what I have in like a Premiere Pro

it’s probably not going to completely

diminish my need for Premiere Pro for

other things like color correction but

for basic stuff I don’t do a lot of that

kind of thing on the video podcast so

it’s not going to be a huge deal but

that’s the bulk of what I wanted to show

you overall I think Studio One six is a

great Next Step In Studio One it is

definitely more customizable

personalizable than other versions being

able to save not just

a complete song tip templates but

individual track preferences is going to

really speed up the process I think for

a lot of people having those views where

you just see what you want is going to

really get rid of a lot of the Clutter

for things that you don’t necessarily

use like midi and the smart templates

are honestly great I was playing around

with the Beats template I would not have

known where to start on making beats but

that template made it really really

really easy so again check it out at

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Emily goodbye