Studio One Project Page – Complete Mastering Solutions
The Studio One Project page serves as a lab where songs can be matched to references for album refinement. Due to the presence of DAWs, the traditional way of music production is now extinct as producers begin to mix with the laying of the second track.
The Project page of Studio One eliminates the divide that once existed between the processes of mixing and mastering. Today, a lot of projects no longer have a budget set aside for them as the tools needed for very good mastering can easily be afforded. One only needs to possess the skill to for the proper application of those tools.
Due to the boundaries that exist in the field of mastering, mastering engineers always ask the mixing engineers for mix revisions and this is what the project page and song page of Studio One does – to speed up and these revisions iteratively. What is involved here is that any project page changes which are better implemented on Studio One song page become prototyped
FEATURES OF THE PROJECT PAGE AND HOW IT WORKS
You can use the Studio One project Page to take your project from the stage of conception to the finished mix stage. PreSonus Studio One is really equipped with a great end-to-end workflow that lets you carry out tasks such as recording, editing, mixing and also mastering. An integrated mastering suite is what the project page really is. All song changes are tracked by Studio One and corresponding changes will be made automatically in the mastering project.
The professional project page also provides you with the necessary tools needed to complete your music. But it does not end there as it also offers you the tools to put your music out. Professional effects, meters and comprehensive tools can be used to master an entire project. Building your project does not also require that every song must be finished.
EASY UPDATES
A simple click ensures that your projects are updated to ensure that each song is of the latest version. While mastering, if you get the feeling that changes have to be made to a song, you can simply navigate to the song page and make the needed changes, and then come back to the project page to continue editing. This is a very easy procedure.
METERS
Once playback is started, the superb metering features of the project page will simply come to life so that you can view it. There is a Spectrum meter which is very large in size. The spectrum meter displays audio frequencies in different formats that can be selected. You will also discover the Level meter. The Level meter can be adjusted to achieve Peak/RMS functionality and it also has various display options.
You can also decide to listen to see if any of your songs have volume issues occurring in between them by playing through the songs, after which you can then make use of the volume slider to make the needed adjustments. The Track Device Rack is where the Volume slider is located. You can also decide to jump your cursor to a clicked spot by simply locating the timeline above the Track Lane and clicking in it during playback. This is absolutely perfect if you wish to navigate between songs so that their volumes in relation to each other can be checked. It can also be useful in checking for song transitions.
MASTER FADER
You will also find the rack for the Master Channel Device under the rack for the Track Device. The Master Channel Device provides a master fader to be used for the whole project and also provides fields that can be used for the addition of master insert plus post effects, which are mainly used for the addition of dithering plugins in the event that you do not wish to make use of the dither features which are built-in. Additionally, if you wish to have sonic consistency, you can add a master effect which has a little character.
EXPORTING OPTIONS
As soon as you have completed the mastering of the song and you are satisfied, there are a lot of export options offered by the project page. Some of these options are related to physical CDs creation. Red Book CDs can be directly burned from a computer system and then a CD or DDP image can be made and forwarded to be duplicated or replicated by a CD producer.
Digital releases can also be made in various formats. These formats include
- Ogg Vorbis
- WAV
- CAF
- AIFF
- FLAC
- MP3
Individual files will be created for each song upon digital releases. The files will include all the metadata and have them compiled in one folder. It is also possible to have your song published to SoundCloud if you so wish.
