How To Use Studio One: Making Drum Beats

In this video we learn how to make a beat in Studio One!

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CHAPTERS
00:00 What You'll Need
01:21 Add Impact XT
03:53 Project Settings
05:39 Recording the Hi Hat
08:04 Quantizing
11:10 Recording Kick and Snare
12:27 Refining Velocities
15:29 Creating Variations

[bobbybehan]

Definitely one of the best if not the best and clearest channels of tutorials on YouTube. Every one I’ve watched has been brilliant, thank you.

[Kev]

Hi Mike. I'm starting work on my first song with studio one and was programming the drums. I had a few things I didn't know how to do so naturally this morning I turned to you. I found this video and you answered all my questions. I really hope you know how much we all appreciate what you do. I record music with my friends purely for the enjoyment of it. The last thing I want is frustration when I don't know how to do what I want in the program. With you here I feel like I have buddy I can turn to for the answers every time. Thank you!

[btime]

Mike, Thank you for doing this! You are a natural instructor and your tutorials are simply great. I follow and enjoy a bunch of Studio One you tubers, including Gregor and Joe G on the Presonus channel. They produce some really good and helpful content. But when it comes to well paced, clear and concise tutorials, you are a treasure.. i hope PreSonus knows how much you help their Studio One users.

[thehomerecordingstudiozone]

Been using studio one on and off for the last 10 years amazing some of the shortcuts you overlook nice one Mike .

[piyutopas]

Glad you have an exclussive channel for this! Looking forward to more content

[buzza_tv]

Very great tutorial ❤
Thanks so much..

[danielsexton]

Mike the others need to watch how you teach! You always start at a beginning point that people like me, that's just learning Studio 1 recognizes where you are. And MIST IMPORTANTLY, you go very slow where the others want to show off how quickly and simple as they say the particular routine is that they are trying to explain. Also, you do not leave out any step and you actually and slowly show us where it is on the screen and show us the result always going slow. I hope these other Personus/Studio one experts read this. Thanks Bud!

[BenZeebar]

Very clear and precise explanations, Mike. Your videos are so helpful.

[Frank-in-NY]

Hey Mike...Excellent tutorial. Appreciate that you kept it simple, yet delivered a great deal of information. Not only on making a beat, but getting around in Studio One.👍

[landencrespin]

So useful, great workflow and necessary description.

[JG-DivMan]

Another excellent video -- informative and straight to the point. I rarely use this feature in S1 as I work almost exclusively with acoustic instruments, but it's always good to know as much as possible. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge of S1!

[marcosteixeira]

I am learning a lot from your teachings. Thank you very, very much.

[TomAuffarth]

Qwerty Keyboard! Yes! Thx! In the other Vid I found gainstaging/normalizing via tiping values in the inspector.
I use S1 professional and literally every day for quite a while, since version 3. But - you never learn out! I´ll be back here, thx again!!

[ServingMyJesus]

That was a great and timely article as I was just wanting to change the drums in my current project. I also wanted to quantise a piece as well as 'glue' so pieces together.

[larjsy]

Your video has tutored me into doing my first ever midi programming! Thank you! :-)

[brianritter]

Very helpful, great pacing easy to understand

[DjJazzOriginal]

Fantastic tutorial Mike.
I was wondering though, do all this things you teach also aply to Studio One Artist version, or is it only accessable on the professional version.
I dont know which one to purchase yet, since i am a 'home studio' producer at the moment.

[gsmith]

Let me say this upfront from my research I think Studio One is going in the right direction overall.

I think what S1 is doing with Atmos is dope. I like the video integration with audio. I their project page concept of mastering whole projects and look forward to using that for my projects.

I like importing my stems for mixing and arrangement within studio one

Now when it comes to frustration with Studio One a lot of it falls on me.

I love the chord track

I struggle with the following:

It takes me too long to grab events and move them where I need them. I keep splittingthem.

I have issues quantizemidi events.

I used to be able to Maschine and MPC as VST but I must be doing something wrong.

I find hard it to get a workable view of the Edit window and control the scrolling in the loop setting

I might be struggling with latency

I know I can use my Qwter keyboarddon’t know how to set it

I want to know how can I chop and assign samples with impact

I want to know how can convert Audio to midi

I really want to get better in composing within Studio One, I do my beat making primarilywith MPC Software and then Maschine software

[raymondspagnuolo]

Hi Mike! I always go into the (F3 -Console) General tab and make the starting point either -1 or -2 bar offset, which changes the timeline to match.

[dngrusd]

Thanks for the vid! I learned a lot! Time well spent!