****The Studio One Discussion Q&A Sharing tips and tricks thread****

[Trash Panda]

Most of the music I make is technology created - so I do this all the time.

I don't own Kontakt, but here's how I do this w/another multi-timbral VSTi - Structure from Air Music Tech.
I have an instrument track w/a basic midi player - from the old PIZ library - it contains the content I will play on multiple channels.
Then I have four Structure tracks that have the patches I wish to sound. I set thei inputs to the midi player track and turn on their monitor (can record them if desired).

How do you determine which notes go to each channel with this method?

 

[Lukas]

Seems to me like the same MIDI data is sent to ALL channels.

 

[aka70]

@NTO, this is very clever. Should try it

 

[NTO]

... I just want to enter the midi in the first instrument and the others play automatically the same midi. ...

Note isolation was not part of the OP
BUT there is Note Mapper from https://www.codefn42.com/ - another GREAT midi plug

 

[aka70]

Yeaah this is great. If you put the other channels on record it duplicates the exact same midi cc. But you can't put different delay offset for the the others too. If I want to apply this to my template I need to do some arrangements, but it's a way to do it. Thank you Nto

 

[dcoscina]

This is probably a silly request but one thing I liked about Cubase was the ability to see music notes in the arrange page tracks instead of piano roll graphics. It actually does help.. Logic used to have it up until v9 I think... I wonder if S1 will ever have that option

 

[dcoscina]

I know I'm kinda late to the party here but sheesh those Macros are killer. Just from a composing standpoint, there is tons of helpful shortcuts there. From revoicing chords and, I'm embarrassed to admit this, being able to move a selected line to another track without copy-pasting.... amazing. That feature alone will save me a ton of time..

 

[Lukas]

I know I'm kinda late to the party here but sheesh those Macros are killer. Just from a composing standpoint, there is tons of helpful shortcuts there. From revoicing chords and, I'm embarrassed to admit this, being able to move a selected line to another track without copy-pasting.... amazing. That feature alone will save me a ton of time..

If you like the macros, maybe the "Music Editing" macro page could be interesting for you (if you haven't already discovered it anyway)?




It was originally just a little experiment for myself to test different note actions and to have quicker access to them, but it then turned out to be quite nice also for composing, arranging, editing (I like the tempo +/- and Distribute Notes macros for tempo and timing correction)... and last but not least to demonstrate some of the less known MIDI (note) functions.

 

[dcoscina]

If you like the macros, maybe the "Music Editing" macro page could be interesting for you (if you haven't already discovered it anyway)?




It was originally just a little experiment for myself to test different note actions and have quicker access to them, but it then turned out to be quite nice also for composing, arranging, editing (I like the tempo +/- and Distribute Notes macros for tempo and timing correction)... and last but not least to demonstrate some of the less known MIDI (note) functions.

Yup, I've been living in this all day today messing around with stuff. Inverted some chords, doubled down the 8ve for the strings, took the top line off and moved to the trumpet... brilliant stuff. Lotsa of fun.

 

[Kevperry777]

Yup, I've been living in this all day today messing around with stuff. Inverted some chords, doubled down the 8ve for the strings, took the top line off and moved to the trumpet... brilliant stuff. Lotsa of fun.

!!!!! I'm looking but can't seem to find it....where/what is the macro that moves a part or line to another track?

 

[Lukas]

You need to select the notes and right-click.

 

[easyrider]

Can Studio One do this and have a list of expression maps down the side like in this video?

 

[Lukas]

Not at the moment, no.

 

[pawelmorytko]

Thanks for the useful tips in here everyone, I have a question about duplicating tracks - is there a way to stop studio one from duplicating all of the midi regions onto the new duplicated track? If I do a normal duplicate the new track is still linked to the old one, and if I do a complete duplicate, it copies the midi regions too... I kind of want the best of both worlds where I make a new identical, but independent track with the same instrument loaded and same processing/settings, but without the midi regions which i have to keep deleting.

 

[samphony]

Thanks for the useful tips in here everyone, I have a question about duplicating tracks - is there a way to stop studio one from duplicating all of the midi regions onto the new duplicated track? If I do a normal duplicate the new track is still linked to the old one, and if I do a complete duplicate, it copies the midi regions too... I kind of want the best of both worlds where I make a new identical, but independent track with the same instrument loaded and same processing/settings, but without the midi regions which i have to keep deleting.

The quickest way
Make a macro of

duplicate the track
Select alll on track
Delete

 

[Snarf]

The quickest way
Make a macro of

duplicate the track
Select alll on track
Delete

And then bind it to a keyboard shortcut!

 

[Tempfram]

How do you deal with the fact that S1's Groove Delay only does 4 taps?

 

[Crossroads]

How do you deal with the fact that S1's Groove Delay only does 4 taps?

Throw another one on there, preferably inside a multi effect. Pan left and right, create macro knobs and buttons to control both and go to town. Sky's the limit if you think outside the limitations.

 

[Tempfram]

But you could do that with a regular delay too. This plugin really needs to be updated.

 

[Lukas]

This plugin really needs to be updated.

You're the first I hear complaining about the Groove Delay only having 4 taps. If this "really needs" to be updated, have you already created a feature request on answers.presonus.com?