When you have one you like, click and drag it into the main timeline. This makes it very easy to try several different ideas within the context of your song. You can have multiple Scratch Pads within a song (although you can only see one at a time). These changes do not change in the Arrangement.
Now, loop your section and experiment by making changes in the Scratch Pad. Once you click in the timeline of the Scratch Pad, the focus of the transport changes to the Scratch Pad. Open a Scratch Pad and drag in events, parts or arranger section from the main timeline. Scratch PadĪ Scratch Pad allows you to quickly test musical ideas without changing your current arrangement. Once complete, select the part again, -click and choose Audio/Extract to Chord Track. To do this from audio, right-click an audio event and choose Audio/Detect Chords in the pop-up menu. This is fast and flexible and you can get the entire chord progression in place very quickly. With that done, we can manually enter chords in the Chord Track or, again, from an instrument or audio part that may already exist. From the menu, choose Instrument Parts/Detect Key Signature. To do this, select the instrument part on the track and right-click on the event. This can be set either by clicking on the Key Signature in the transport bar and choosing the key from the pop-up or by determining it from an instrument part. This gives us the flexibility to make radical changes to a chord progression even after audio has been recorded. With it, you can make grand changes to instrument or audio tracks. The Chord Track is similar to the Arranger Track. This can be done multiple times within an arrangement. Right-clicking in the timeline, you can select Insert Time Signature and a new value will be placed right where you want it. Time signatures can also be set/changed in an arrangement by double-clicking or right-clicking the time signature at the far left of the timeline. Changes like this are saved with the current song. You can set a tempo range by double-clicking in the max and min fields and inserting a value for each. Although there may be artefacts, this is a great way to test part changes with guide audio. Time-stretched audio events are stretched dynamically to reflect those tempo changes. Use the Tempo Track to insert tempo changes in a composition.
As you can see, this allows you to quickly create a full arrangement in no time. You can also move the section marker itself without moving the actual contents of the section. This makes it very easy to duplicate choruses or verses to other sections of the song. You can move this entire section – including the parts for every track that are within the section area. You can also change the colour of a section by selecting the coloured square from the same pop-up menu and choosing a new colour.Īrranger Track advantage: use the Arrow Tool and select a section of your song. This new section can be renamed (Verse 1, Pre-Chorus, Chorus, Solo, etc) by right-clicking the section and double-clicking the title in the pop-up menu. Now draw a region over the length of the song part you want to define. Open the Arranger track and enable the Paint tool. When changes are made to the original, the same changes are applied to the copies. If you’ve copied a four-bar loop, it will paste it to the next logical space on the timeline.įor instrument parts, using Duplicate Shared makes copies of a part that are linked to the original part. This can be a single event or multiple events.
Highlight your initial parts and then use to copy and paste events. Once you have an idea down in Studio One – whether it’s a MIDI loop or an audio loop – it’s very quick and easy to build an arrangement.