Props Joe, my homie til the end. It's pretty commendable to be aware of your content's general direction and knowing when to rewind back to basics and hook a new school homie up when he is strugglin on the come up! IT AINT ME THOUGH you showed me this shit a long time ago Joe, don't act like I been slippin
Wow Joe! Thank you for this! I jumped into Studio One 3 a few years ago not knowing anything about DAWs- this filled a lot of the gaps I’ve had for several years!
Good overview. There's one important thing missing though: a VCA will actually change the volume of the track and as a consequence change the volume of sends on that track as well, while a bus will not. An obvious example is a track with a send to a reverb FX-channel: if you lower the bus volume to -infinite then the reverb sound will remain; if you lower the VCA the reverb sound will go down with it. It's basic logic really but I missed that logic as a beginner :)
Joe explains what is going on in detail whereas his slick mate Gregor, only tries to impress us with his knowledge of the software and flies through things as if he were flying a jet engine and smiles when we haven't a clue. Keep it up Joe.
Joe, I'm brand new to audio recording. In studio one, is it ok to just add plug ins like effects an individual channel? Or is it better to create an effects channel and send the signal there? Also, how come the gain settings look ok in the individual tracks, but terrible in the main output?
In Studio One...Do you create a separate Bus and use it as your Mix Bus, where all your Mix Bus processing goes on and leave the Main Out empty/ only issue for monitor plugins? Or do you use your Main Out as your Mix Bus with i.serts and Mix Bus processing?
One of the things I never really understood is why would you use ever an FX instead of a Bus with no send? There have been occasions I later went back to a FX bus and wished it had a send so now I just ignore the FX bus completely and always use a regular Bus so that I always have the "option" of a send. If I did it the other way around (starting with an FX always) then I'd have to recreate the bus later on if I change my mind and want a send. It just seems like FX is a lessor version of a Bus? Does it save on processing or something vs. a Bus with no send?
Same thoughts. I'am using a S1 for many years now and i never liked the idea of this limited FX bus and i'm always using a full featured BUS instead of FX.
@@Uberkoolsound Yeah I suppose the only thing I can really tell that is a difference is say exporting your STEMS you could easily view which tracks you are using as just a FX destination for organizing your exports? When you go to export you can quickly select stuff like 'all tracks', 'all bus', 'all FX'. For me I just use a bus and start the name of the bus off with FX. Easy enough to see for me.
Propably you can save a tiny amount of processing power if you route two or more Instruments into the same effects channel instead of opening a new instance for the same effect.
I have to go back and check and correct me if im wrong. Does the return panning in fx and bus act different unless you put a dual pan on the bus insert. But i agree. I just started using fx when i know the send will not be bussed again. Like drum verbs.
If I’m not mistaken volumen changes using VCA’s won’t affect the plugins that are on the channels controlled but those volume changes will affect the plugins that are on the Bus they’re sent to. Correct?
You said ONLY difference from Bus and FX is sends, but Bus also has the Mix FX… Just started using so S1. My understanding from everything I’ve watched from PreSonus, and mentioned it, we only need 1 Mix FX insert which affects entire mix? Maybe I’m wrong or misunderstood.
Excellent as always Joe! I can see how the VA could make things confusing for some. Grouping channels offer the same adjustability, without the VCA. Yes, of course, a VCA or bus channel would be needed in order to instantiate a group effect, but for overall adjustability, why would there really be any advantage, or can it be thought of as just an alternative approach?
I have been watching your videos for about a year now, and very enjoyable and informative. I just went from analog tape to computer based recording with Studio One. I am still using all my off board analog gear, just using the computer as a tape machine. But I would like to see all 24 channels/tracks and the master fader of Studio One in full screen. I don't know how to do that. I can get all 24 channels/tracks in a smaller size but not full screen. Can you tell me how to do that? Thank you.
Just a quick note about VCA, if you have a VCA controlling a number of audio channels that feed to a buss channel that has, for instance a compressor or a reverb, then changing the VCA will effect how those channels go into the buss channel FX. I.e., lowing the VCA would cause the compressor to not be hit as hard. Correct?
Even though I’ve been using studio one for a few years there’s always something new to learn, or to refresh. Good info bro. Question. Why when I record an audio track the wave form doesn’t appears on my track? I always have to use normalize audio. Thanks.
Nice vid..! Great explanation! I have a question: What happens with the midi tracks in the console? If I dont want to convert them to waveform, how can I mix the the midi tracks from the console? Added midi tracks dont show up in console. Only VST instruments... :-/ thanks a lot... keep up the good work!!
Hi Joe I was wondering would you ever consider being a guest on my talk show I am a pre Sonus user and I love pre Sonus and sphere. I would love to have you on and talk about the importance of creativity and being productive all the while using pre Sonus studio one 5 pro and all That a user can get out of being a sphere member. Thank you Sir
Related to the question below about why use a FX instead of a bus, why use a VCA? Assuming you are top-down mixing, you've already bused the tracks/channels you want grouped, right? Or is this for the oddball situations where you want to automate juicing, say, the kick and the bass, while decreasing the drum bus? What circumstances make you reach for the VCA?
@@presonus Oh, I see. Otherwise you would have to do something like send both buses to another bus, then reroute the output of each bus back to the main or wherever you had it going before. Much easier. Thanks.
Thanks Joe for this explanation. I feel like the weakness of how PreSonus has VCA's is that when you change the VCA level (and the corresponding channels also change) you are then affecting how the compression, verb, delay, levels respond if their is a plug in on any of those channels. Does that make sense? Like we work hard to get the compression levels just write on a channel, and then the VCA messes that up if we are just trying to make a volume change to a group. For that reason I skip using VCA and just use busses in S1.
Ok why would I do a reverb on a bus instead of a fx again? Because I already been doing that for years, just still didn’t know the logistics differences
The FX channel can be controlled separately from the non FX channel via the send. You can then automate and manage the FX channel while the main channel stands alone. Like, say you want the reverb to come in on a specific part, automate the FX channel to turn up then down. Can't do that with the bus without also changing the original audio
Hello Sir... Please make a video regarding "Live Playing" With Studio one using Show Page - setting it up like Main Stage!! Please ... Please..(I want to use it only for live playing and "NOTHING ELSE"...) PLEASE PLEASE ANYBODY HELP ME...
Alright, your videos are starting to make sense. Maybe someone can answer a ? for me? How do i transfer a drumless track from Dropbox to my faders, so i can add drums to a track?
Download the track, drag it right into your open song in S1 on an empty section. It will insert it. Then add your new drum tracks. When you first save,answer yes when prompted to copy the external audio you dragged in so it moves into the song permanently.
@@bebop425 Oh man. Quite a bit of time has passed. Yeah, it's super easy. I was way over thinking. I'm still working with plug ins, and all. I don't want my entire drum kit to have the same effect, but when I add plug ins on different drums/OHs, i get bad latency. Any cure?
@@bubinga_basher latency when monitoring live drums? If so, do a search and it will tell you how to adjust your buffer settings. I've never heard of latency on playback caused by effects.
@@bubinga_basher maybe you disabled the setting talked about in this thread and it's not automatically correcting plugin latency forums.presonus.com/viewtopic.php?f=151&t=5760
@@bebop425 I guess that's possible, although I can't recall. I'll take a look today. I'm finding with good cymbals, a good kit, and the drums tuned to my liking, I'm not having to use plug ins. I still haven't posted anything (besides some 1 mic EAD10 BS). I'm trying to get my space looking adequate
