This informative video is a rare find!! I've been watching many tutorials showcasing many DAWS, and this has really focused on the specifics of the Virtual Instruments in Studio One. Max, you have really clarified for me, what I have been grappling with all these years about Studio One daw, (which I have). I've let it sit for so long, going back to 'give it another try,' only to leave it alone as I was frustrated with the lack of progress I was making, for not being able to get a good - basic foundation - of the 'terminology' and 'functionality' of the Vi's. Your instruction was 'on point', and so 'easy to understand.' Thank you so much for your time!!
Max you are just the best. I have booked two days off work to study this course in detail and take over the world with choons! Thanks for everything. Will continue to like and share!
Thank you for your amazing work on your "Studio One Course". I love how well you embedded music theory into this course as well. It is at perfect pace and really motivating to follow along. Amazing work!
@MaxKonyi thank you for this video this makes a lot of sense for finding the instruments in VI. Many others are not clear and assume you know a lot before explaining.
I was only using Presence , had no Idea about Mai Tai (amazing sounds there). Thanks for this. Awesome explanation. I also bought your course. Do you recommend to finish this before I checkout the course?
Great! The course is all about theory, composition, mind and ear training, not Studio One or music production. You can definitely do them at the same time as they don't require each other
I am learning Studio One thanks to you! Subscribed for this awesome course/playlist. How do you get the keyboard to show up at the bottom of the screen? Not the one that shows up in the "Instrument" screen but at the bottom of the main Studio One screen?
loveee the video my friend :) great work. just starting out with Studio One, it has some great sounds/presets btw. one question how do you record multiple Presence Tracks? cuzzz i wanna record strings for the next part but still i hear drums when i play the keys. can you help a brother out😅
Glad you like it! Every track that has the red recording circle lit up will record simultaneously. Make sure the red circle is only lit on the strings track and then you should only record that one 👌
Have they added any new stuff four years later. I mean to the package that comes bundled with Studio One Pro. I’m still debating whether Studio One can (at least broadly) replace Logic Pro. Btw this video is still the best overview of the topic.
@@maxkonyi Got it, thanks, and would you mind sharing if the instruments that are shared with Studio One Professional are the complete versions or are there more complete versions that are only available at a cost. Cubase does that i think.
@@accentontheoff They are the complete versions, however, there are more even more instruments available that are included in the subscription or model or as separate purchaes.
Great intro to the topic. Nothing really new to me but it is always good to hear those concepts well explained. Still I have a question: If you already have a good polyphonic synth like presence what reason can I have to need a monophonic one?
Good question. Presence is a sampler, not a synth, so it only deals in playing back audio recordings. Mai Tai is a polyphonic synth. Mojito is the monophonic synth and does have some functionality that is unique to it, however, I can't say I ever use it. Mai Tai is perfect for most synth needs 👌
Hey Max... Thanks to your excellent video, I was able to import some melody notes and chords (created as wave files in Guitar Pro 7) and magically transform them into an amazingly realistic acoustic piano track using Presence XT Core keyboards. Now I would like to use the same basic technique using Presence XT Core Percussion and Vocals. The Presonus description says there are only three "articulations" available (Hah, Huh, Hmh). That's OK, however, as that is what I want... I want human voices singing "choir like" to sing the notes. I'm struggling a little, however. Do you know of any RU-vid videos that specifically target the voice part of "Presence XT Core Percussion and Vocals". I can't seem to find any. Again... Thanks for the great video!
Of course! Every time you drag an instance of an instrument into the arrangement window, you are creating a separate instance that can have its own parameters. You can create as many as you'd like
I'm torn between FL studio and studio one. I'm going to invest in one of them in the next few weeks but idk which one to pick. Ugh. I've been playing with the demos of both and sort of like both.
The best DAW is the one you know best. Any choice will work in the end, once you get to know everything. I've tried nearly every DAW and feel very good within Studio One. If you end up with S1, you've got this whole course to work through as well!
Max, while I very much enjoyed your video, you seemed to skip a very important step at the very beginning. That is (if I am understanding what I'm seeing on the screen correctly), you have already (apparently) created several "virtual instruments" tracks (as displayed on the far left). You didn't show how that was done, but rather started working with some tracks you already had created. For those of us never having used virtual instruments, you need to show us how to create those tracks from the very beginning... then (and only then) does it make sense to go ahead and demo how to use them.
Hello Herr, Thank you for comment-I appreciate you taking the time to give feedback. As you may know, this video is part of a course and was originally designed to be done in a certain order (this was before the decision to upload to RU-vid was made). The various ways to create instrument tracks are covered in a later video found here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dz05t_o5zEk.html At the time of making this series, it seemed best to include that info only when it was actually time to put it into practice during the tasks given throughout the course. Now, however, I agree with you and think the info should have been placed in this video. Live and learn! New videos will be on the way since Studio One V5 was just released so I may get a chance at redemption 😇
Yup, probably would have been good. This video is part of a massive course and all the other details of producing are covered in-depth in successive videos.
S1 Pro comes with: - Mai Tai (polyphonic synth) - Impact (pad-style sampler) - Presence (full keyboard sampler with a big library of acoustic instruments) - Mojito (basic monophonic synth) - Sample One (fairly deep keyboard sampler where you load your own samples)
Hi, very useful video. I have a question. I just installed my studio one 6, works fine except 2 things. There is a very annoying hissing background noise and I cant get rid of it. The other thing. I have a few virtual instrument plug ins. If I drag one a pull it into a track, how can I play those instruments? I only hear the sound of my digital piano. So can I control the virtual instruments with the audio connected digital piano, or do i need separate midi controller? Thank you, Tom
1). The background hiss must be in your audio system somewhere. Either from your interface, your speakers, or something electrical getting into the system. Do you hear the hiss when Studio One is not open? 2). Your digital piano may have MIDI capability. You'll need to check the manual to see if that requires a USB cable or a MIDI to USB cable. Audio cables won't work for sure!
@@maxkonyi Hi, thank you for your reply. Yes I hear the hissing noise when the studio one is not open. The noise getting louder if I turn the main knob up on the interface. I checked the piano and has usb midi port, so should I connect the piano straight to the pc with usb cable to use the virtual instruments in the studio one?
@@creativekeyspianostudio6695 Ok so the hissing may be generated by your interface. Does it have separate power source or just USB? I've had similar issues in the past with various students. Yes, connect the piano using USB and then select it as an External Device in S1. I have a video in this series which explains how to do that.
There are many extra libraries you can get for Presence through the PreSonus Shop. If you sign up for the subscription service, PreSonus Sphere, you get them all included
Understandable! Just the way it is with music software, unfortunately. Have you looked into PreSonus Sphere? Subscription service that might be more manageable...
Hi can you help me? when i hit record on studio one (im using superior drummer3) and click on some drum parts for example kick, then i hit stop, the colored line disappear i dont know why.
I have not used this software before. It looks quite interesting... It should have installed a VST version that can be loaded into Studio One like any other instrument. I would check in the "Instruments" tab inside the browser section of Studio One and see if you find it there. If so, drag-and-drop it into your timeline. If you can't figure it out, send an email to Akai and let them know the situation. Best of luck!
Hey Max, is there any way to link the keys of a virtual instrument to my laptop keyboard keys so that I can record MIDI easily? it is really difficult to click each note on the midi map.
Max, do you know how to connect Studio one to Reaktor from NI, ie playing a midi/audio track into Reaktor as a plugin (or stand alone) or is this possible in S1? I want to play tracks from S1 into Reaktor all within S1. Would appreciate it.
Yes, it should work like any instrument. Drag it in from the browser, make sure your MIDI keyboard/device is setup, click the track so the red circle is lit, load a preset in Reaktor, then play and see what happens. Let me know
@@maxkonyi Yes it works perfectly like you said. Many thanks. Do you by any chance know how to add a separate sequencer within Reaktor or is it better to leave that within S1? Thanks again Max.
Hi max. I am using Studio One 5 Artist and my "Presence XT" looks different than yours, and has fewer presaets. Is this because Im not using the Pro Version of S1? Can I upgrade so my Presence is like yours?
Hey Bruce, yes that's right. I'm not sure if you can just upgrade that one pluging...I've never considered it. Maybe investigate the Presonus website. You could also consider subscribing to the Sphere service if the price of Professional is too steep for you.
@@maxkonyi Thank you sir. As soon as I sent the last message, I realized the "upgrade" question was for the people employed by Presonus, and not you. Sorry about that!
@@simoncello.coccobello I’m thinking of jumping ship from Apple to Windows and I’m looking for a DAW with the range of Logic X’s virtual instruments (or at least close). Although the sampler in this video seems pretty awesome. What’s your take?
I switched to Windows last year. Been great so far, but there are things I miss for sure. I love Studio One. I don't know if any DAW has stock sounds as good as Logic, but the stuff in S1 is very usable. Have you seen my stream highlights videos where I'm using stock instruments?
@@maxkonyi Will look for your videos thanks. S1 actually does seem quite exciting. Not just the range of stock instruments but the quality as well. By the way is lag a common problem in Windows still? I remember that being the reason for me using Mac in the first place.
@@arvindkumar-ct9kk Great. Are you using Professional? Artist? Prime? They each come with varying amounts of downloadable content. You can see some info here: support.presonus.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003366672--5-Studio-One-4-Installing-Additional-Content-PreSonus-Sound-Sets- Let me know :)
Max Konyi i am using professional this link is not working for the same if u r having a downloaded sound sets kindly send it to me i will be really thankful for the same
@@arvindkumar-ct9kk Ok, if you have Professional, please watch this video and it will sort you out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rktkaBHa8GA.html
What kind of drums? Impact XT comes with S1 but its content varies between the different versions. It's great for electronic/sampled drums. For acoustic drums, it's a decent starting place.
This may have changed since you posted these tutorials, since Studio One has been upgraded so much, but I read this via shop.presonus.com/Studio-One-Prime-Mai-Tai It appears that Mai Tai does support MODELING now: "Mai Tai is a polyphonic analog modeling synthesizer with a simple and straightforward interface. It excels at pad sounds, leads, rhythmic chords, and many other synth duties."
Hey Brett, I believe the modeling part may refer to the "Character" parameter found within Mai Tai. It seems to be some kind of impulse response thing that imparts a specific frequency balance onto the spectrum. There is nothing within the current version of Mai Tai that resembles an actual modeling synth...
You didn't teach us properly you already set them before but when I'm trying to do the same thing in my pc it just simply doesn't working i can't figuring out the musics you didn't teach us from the very beginning
Have you watched the videos before and after this? Everything is explained. This particular video is simply for playing around and exploring. The rest of the videos in this course go into the specifics.
