Thank you x1000! I recently bounced from another DAW to Studio One for this exact feature but was having a rough time finding a good tutorial on it. Yours has everything I needed to know and I greatly appreciate the tips!
Mike - great video as always. I've been using the Sound Variations since an hour after update launch on an orchestral project and you are absolutely right about the benefits of this. Due to the 'tree structure' of some keyswitching (we have discussed before) this is something orchestral composers have been requesting for a while and they have done a fantastic job at Presonus on this. Just being able to begin at any point in the piece with the correct instrumental articulations is a massive improvement for a start! I personally have the added bonus of being a VSL user, so due to a special 'partnership' this now auto populates for every orchestral instrument 😁👍 This will save hours of time progamming each sound. I have never been so happy with an update on any piece of software 👌
Something PreSonus could add: in addition to activation sequences, they could have de-activation sequences. In your example, that would let you replace "Double On" and "Double Off" with just "Double". If you set that to Momentary so it appears as a separate lane in the Sound Variations track, you could swipe over a section of notes and say "Doubling here", and it would turn the feature on and off at the right points in the music.
I was a great Cubase lover in the 80's, with an ATARI ST and a Sound Canvas. But i restarted making music about a year ago, and i got completely lost in it. Was it me, or was it Cubase? I don't know, but then my son offered me a Presonus Studio 24C unit, and i tried Studio One, it got me caught! And indeed, i also agree with Jack, whatshisname Creative Sauce's explanations are the clearest i ever got! Hats off (or open? ;-) ) Love the program, i got away with it quickly and already rearranged some of my old songs, and they sound lots better!!
you absolutely covered everything shocked at the fact that one can program what normally would be pressing two midi notes into one variation after trying to remake this a couple of times, also with ample guitar, as soon as i add the changing capo variations (i don't mean adding them to the sequence, literally adding them to the menu of variations as shown here), B2 becomes the lowest note i can play, regardless of capo position i choose. as soon as i remove them from the menu and keep only sustained, palm mute, etc, all notes play. how can this be? i made sure to follow everything as explained here - set lower input note (c-2), activation sequence is correct and it is set to momentary
Not sure if this is in your wheelhouse but I'm curious about using sound variation or mpe to slide 808 or bass notes or just individual notes like in bitwig studio.
Great video, Thank you...one question..If you set up and save your keyswitches, do they work for all other v.instruments ? by that I mean, will other instruments....especially most third party ones....all have the same functions on the same keys....or will one have to set up different sets for each instrument. Probably a daft question, but I'm a bit new to all this, and find your videos definately the most helpfull.....clear, concise and very well explained
When you set Capo 0 to C#1/E1 or Capo 1 to C#1/F1 etc. you can't play E1, F1 as note on your keyboard anymore. You will hear no sound. It works in your example, because your notes are higher than E1, F1.
I know this is off subject of this video..but did you ever do a follow-up on the icon controller for studio one I recently bought one and built a new PC and haven't even got around to hooking it up yet smh.. I just don't see a lot of info out here on these unit's..anyway thanks and stay safe..!
Hello Mike. Because of you, I've switched to Studio one 5 recently. Also, I bought AmpleSound 3 M Guitar 2 days ago. But... I have problems with the AGM3 Guitar App. So I purchased a Tutorial but it was not practical. I need to know how to use the virtual instrument in StudioOne DAW for my songwriting and arranging hobby. Unfortunately, the course I purchased is great for learning about effects, etc, but not the nitty-gritty. How do I make the Strummer play more than one chord in sequence? The course only shows clicking on the chord number manually etc. etc. If you could produce a very basic, how to use AGM3 with DAW it would be great for me and probably for others too - surely I'm not the only dumbbell trying to master the programs? You have really helped me to understand Studio One better than anything I've ever seen out there. So thank you for that!!! :)
Hey Mike loving the videos. I have been using Ableton with my Keylab essential 88, a Presonus 24c and all the free programs you get with them. I have been looking at the Presonus Sphere package and I am considering subscribing to it so I can upgrade from SO 4 to 5.2 and get the goodies to fiddle with. I am trying to dig around to see what other packages the other companies offer and it would be good if you could do a comparison video of what is available out there. And PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE could you do an idiots guide to how to manage and install the various packages (Ableton, Studio One, Kontact and so on. take it they have to be installed on your main drive) but how to manage all the samples you get with them so they could be stored on a second drive to not bog down the main drive! Oh and by the way........your contact email is down on your Creative Sauce site! Cheers buddy!
Which do you prefer Mike, the Articulation maps in CbB or this version? They seem pretty much identical in effect but the cakewalk version seems a bit more "techie" and this one a bit more user friendly
Hi Mike, when I add a key switch note (for instance, a F#0 would be a key switch note for slap bass for Modo Bass 2) then it changes the variation for the complete track. So not just for the notes that I want to be slapped bass. What am I doing wrong here?
Excuse me if this is kind of a dumb question but how do you turn them off? I see the colored bar under the key switches that tells me there's an articulation active on that bar but how do I turn it off? I'm talking with midi and not with a keyboard as well.
As per your demo related to Capo, the notes assigned will be muted for note input. For example C#1 | E1, E1 can't be used for note input. How to solve it? Thanks.
Mike, well done on explaining and demonstrating this important new feature. reading the manual was not nearly as well presented as your video, particularly the activation sequence. thanks
But it has one issue, imagine you're switching DAWs for a project for some reason and you want to send the midi info on the other DAW, it'll not be able to read the keyswitch information. Any idea how can we tackle this situation?
How about importing automatically and not manually setting up the key-switching in every musical library?So much easier and less time for us.How can we propose that in Presonus?Thank you so much!
I cant figure out how to load my keyswitches from presonus 5. I'm sure they didnt remove the load and save, cos that would be bizare, so I cant work this out at all. :/
great video! could you please please tell us how to just record in absolute time, so that the tracks don't jump around (and go out of sync with the video) every time I make a slight tempo change earlier in the piece??
