What version of Studio One are you using?

You may find something usefull in this video on gain staging...its not on Studio One but the principle remains the same

Here is one on Studio One and gain staging

staticjacket, post: 440795, member: 49957 wrote: Another problem I have is knowing how to turn a .song file into a usable format

You will need to export the file from Studio One, go to the top and between "Edit" & "Track" you will see "Song".

Click on "Song" to bring down the menu. Next you will select "Export Mixdown" which will bring up a window in the middle of your screen that looks like this

Now under where it says "Format" pull down the bar to select the format you want to use (WAV, Mp3 etc). Make sure that you have a marker at the start and end of your track ( in your track window) and under "Export Range" make sure you select between song Start / End marker. The duration should correllate with the time frame of your track or portion you want to mixdown.

If you click on the small square button with the 3 dots at the top of the window under "Location" it allows you to change the path to where the mixdown file is saved to (for ease of finding it, I suggest you choose to save it to your desktop). You will have to select where you save it to each time you mixdown otherwise S1 will default to this path shown above each time and it saves having to search for it. For ease of use, I have a folder on my desktop labelled "Mixdowns" and I save to this each time.
Make sure you name the file as well (ie -"Filename") in this section or S1 will give it a default filename based on the user/date format.

Once you have done all of the above, hit OK. Once it exports the file it will default back to this window, if you are finished just hit cancel when it comes back to it after mixdown is complete.

Now you will also notice that at the bottom of this window there is a section titled "Options". Here you can select Realtime Processing by checking the box next to that selection.
For smaller files, say as in a voice-only podcast of a shorter duration, I would leave this unchecked. But for larger songs where you have many tracks and using a lot of processing it is advised to check this to allow the mixdown to be processed in real time. Everything else can be left as it is.

If you are mixing down to Mp3, you can change the bitrate. You can do this by pulling down the bar and changing to suit. 320kbps is the highest Mp3 bitrate and will give you the better quality than any bitrate less than this. Remember Mp3 is a lossy format, so if you want the highest quality I would export in WAV file format as this is one of the Lossless formats, which is higher quality than Mp3 but also a larger file. Some social media & music file sharing platforms allow only Mp3, some allow WAV or both, depending on what platform you upload to.

You will also see at the top under "Filename" is an option to publish. This allows you to publish straight to Soundcloud if you have an account, which with a podcast you may find helpful.

It can save you some time in uploading, but be mindful that it goes straight to uploading if you select "Publish" which may not give you time to fix any mistakes or do any edits or proofing before uploading.

I hope this explains things and answers your questions, if you need anything clarified or any further questions answered just ask, I'm happy to help.

- Sean.

Sean G, post: 440799, member: 49362 wrote: What version of Studio One are you using?

I'm using 3.2

Thanks for all the info, I'll dive into it today after work or tomorrow morning and reply back with any questions.

Are you aware that an update for version 3.3 only came out the last few days?

You can update (its free btw) in your home screen...just use the "check for updates" at the bottom centre. (y)

The PreSonus YouTube channel has hundreds upon hundreds of tutorials and product info videos.

Specific to StudioOne, the &list=PLnQ-ztvjHMirxnstNzo0p2251ye8K72Gw'">Joe Gilder series is small easy to digest chunks of information that you might find useful. (there are at least 45 videos in his series alone)

staticjacket, post: 440795, member: 49957 wrote: I can't find anything that doesn't give me a lot of irrelevant information for me.

The creators of these videos are doing their best to make instructional videos that are as comprehensive as possible; they have no idea what - or what might not be - "relevant" to your situation, so you're probably gonna have to sift through the various vids, and pick and choose what you feel is "important"... but... on that note, you never know what may or may not be important in the future.

My advice would be to get to know your DAW program as intuitively as possible.
Those DAW users who know their platforms well - regardless of the platform they use - will use their session time more efficiently, and ultimately, turn out a better-sounding product.

IMO.

Sean G, post: 440808, member: 49362 wrote: Are you aware that an update for version 3.3 only came out the last few days?

You can update (its free btw) in your home screen...just use the "check for updates" at the bottom centre. (y)

I just got the update this past weekend, thanks for letting me know!

dvdhawk, post: 440810, member: 36047 wrote: The PreSonus YouTube channel has hundreds upon hundreds of tutorials and product info videos.

Specific to StudioOne, the &list=PLnQ-ztvjHMirxnstNzo0p2251ye8K72Gw'">Joe Gilder series is small easy to digest chunks of information that you might find useful. (there are at least 45 videos in his series alone)

Great, I'll look into it!