Track Options in Studio One - Unlocking Features You Need | PreSonus

The track options in Studio One are powerful tools to improve your workflow and get the results you need. In this Studio One tutorial, Gregor Beyerle walks you through the DAW's Track Options. Take a look, it's likely there's at least ONE setting you’ve been looking for!
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[@Juanferanez24]

These videos with Gregor have helped me immensely as a newbie to S1. Shoutout to him and Presonus🤙🏾

[@Ilariyastorm]

OMG these videos from Greg are simply the best. Finally I will understand how to use a software I bought hahahaha :D

[@TheDesperateArtist]

OMG! Discovering this video is like discovering you have a rich uncle you didn't know about...

[@sharonsoulmusic]

LMAO - Ditto!

[@GrimmusiKRecords]

So helpful! You’re the best! Great presentation in all of these videos. Concise and to the point, packed with with great tips.

[@tedgalog]

Thank you for this very timely video. You and Joe Gilder are a great one-two combination. I just re-watched his How to Edit video, and you just answered a question I had from that one. It's like you're reading my mind. You guys rock! ("Always put it to 11" LOL!)

[@presonus]

Thanks very much Ted!! Really glad to read you find our videos helpful. :) -GBY

[@jmorrisey79]

Check out Markus Huyskens' channel too. His nickname should be 'The Manual'. No bullshit.

[@rashminparekh1364]

Thank u so much for making this tutorial. Very very useful feature u covered.

[@petersvan7880]

Thank you Gregor for yet another useful and well presented video. Greetings from Sweden!

[@t3rm116]

Gregor is great, I love coming here and sharping my skills or leaning something new I have yet to discover from Studio One. Thank You PreSonus!

[@jurgenschuler8389]

Thank you very much for this video. Great as always!

[@roknrexstudio]

Very helpful! Well done Gregor.

[@markbolden4540]

Thank you! This was enlightening and a tremendous help!!!!

[@presonus]

So glad to hear it! -GBY

[@jayonbaby]

Wow I didn’t know I had these features! Thanks

[@thetinmansheart]

Gregor, so many thanks for your videos. I've learned so much. Question: track options, must I set them for each song? I suppose I could start a template and use it for all songs after today. But is there a way to make the tracks options apply to all songs?

[@dawtrek1656]

Excellent video!

[@Yahoomediaclub]

Cool Stuff adding all the time ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Great Video Thanks

[@beatweezl]

Whoa!! I was looking for that crosshair thing!!! Yay!!!

[@earmastered]

So very helpful!

[@sonikblaksmif]

Great job,!!!!!! Always learning something new

[@presonus]

Thanks so much Ricardo!! :) -GBY

[@TavaresProject]

Great video. Keep them coming

[@presonus]

Thank you!! Will do, promised. :) -GBY

[@producermind9030]

Very handy video!!

[@mypetdrgn]

Asking for a tutorial on the pool section in the browser menu. understanding how the comps are displayed, can the pool files be colored, naming seems a bit strange and so on. thank you for your videos! very informative

[@woodenbeast9337]

Thank you sir great video

[@SriharshaaPrabhakar]

Superb!

[@beatweezl]

I knew it had the solo follows track selection. I just didn't know how to turn it on. Very cool feature!

[@toffeeriot4219]

Good stuff. At last I can find the phase reverse buttons! Here's an unusual question for you: Remember the old analogue desk days when you'd make a chinagraph pencil mark to show the beginning point of the fader when mixing? Is there a way of using some sort of marker on Studio 1 to indicate the start point of a fader, so we don't forget it? Thanks.

[@obolmichael4965]

Thanks a lot it was helpful

[@tiltedlab]

Hello! Do you have a tutorial on the "pool" inside the browser window? If not would you present on that? thank you

[@cassasio1]

Hi there, could you please give me the link in which you explain how to change chords on Audio track ? It is really usefull ur tuto !

[@Hemel02]

Sir should i mix my session wave track or Virtual instruments track?

How do you add transparency to the events? Thanks, bros.

[@beatsbydaku]

Please make the option available to disable "Locate when clicked in empty space" and "Cursor follows edit position" for the edit window/piano roll. It's super useful in the arrangement view, but just such a mess when editing midi :( I don't get why this isn't more requested..

[@judsoncrane1496]

"Cursor follows Edit Position" is a welcomed mode and a nice nod to the popular and classic Pro Tools option "Link Timeline and Edit Selection", but I think one little detail was missed in S1 with this - in Pro Tools when you're in the mode 'Link Timeline and Selection', PT ignores automation node clicks as selections and so your cursor isn't jumping around like crazy while you're editing clips and notes including automation. This is a great mode to work in, but when it includes every little automation node click, its not very efficient or helpful. Since this mode was added most likely to approximate this PT way of working I think this detail should be refined in Studio One. Thanks for the videos!

[@tomace6906]

Guess who was one of the guys with crosshair problem:) I assumed that there must be a solution - Now I got it Thx. for the great tutorials

[@presonus]

haha, there you are! :D you're more than welcome. -GBY

[@resslerartstudios]

It would great to a video on each of the "wrenchs" within studioOne.

[@presonus]

Got you covered: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnSYaKiYd7Sre7M - Joe Gilder

[@Artek604]

Awesome video, as always, but I need to ask a question - is this track finished & out somewhere?! This combination of drums, bass and pads sounds incredible :o Perhaps you have SC or Bandcamp account with your music? :)

[@bacherinijazzquartet5959]

maybe I am doing something wrong but the show channel number in track doesn't appear to work on my studio one professional 4.6 installation

[@35milesoflead]

I have been using "ignore plugin latency" since I found it by accident in, I think, V3? Could you explain the difference between that a "plugin compensation", please?

[@DeejayWilly]

thx for being in our life presonus

[@KayDope]

How to show metering numbers on tracks channels like the master channels has to see if you have headroom of -6db etc?

[@stupidusername38]

IIf you don't want to use Solo follows Selection you can Alt+click the tracks Solo button and it will solo that track and mute the others. Very handy

[@beatweezl]

GTK, Thanks! Now if I can only remember that!

[@chrysbocast3572]

Gregor and Joe 2020!! Yeah!

[@pascalmerschaudio]

for the win

[@beatweezl]

Another good thing about Instrument follows selection which you did not mention is it prevents you from accidentally recording over another MIDI track if you forget to disarm the record button!!! I think that's even more important and useful than just allowing you to record to the next track in one click.

[@TopSecretNick]

Quick question: My transport bar in the lower left doesn't have the latency displayed, only the remaining recording time is shown. Is there a way to activate the latency display? Thank you in advance

[@DS-ru8gd]

Why is there a visual delay with some plugins in studio one? For example, iZotope Neutron 3's frequency analyzer in the EQ section follows playback with some lag (visual only), so that when playing a drum loop, it shows a kick drum bump when a snare drum is playing and vice versa.

[@anthonysmissions]

Hi Gregor I was wondering if it was possible to connect two seperate computer keyboards to my mac and have one work normally and the other work only as a keyboard shortcut controller in Studio One?

[@nusense808]

is it possible to edit the sample start and stop points in Impact/Sample XT using the mouse wheel or rotary knob on my midi controller rather than clicking and dragging with the mouse?

[@presonus]

Hi nusense808, no, this is not possible currently. We have taken note of this feature request, though. :) -GBY

[@user-yq5cl2wu9g]

Hi Gregor, Could you please explain how to type notes in your tracks? I have this option selected, yet I've tried expanding the track to jot down notes but am not allowed to type anywhere.Not sure how it works. Thank you!

[@sergeipiano54]

THANK!!

[@357rawrock]

When I record a new track I change many items on my mix. What can I do to see the previous adjustments without delete the new track record?

[@rstroud2623]

*When I create an instrument track and make the size of the track SMALL, the option to select the instrument and the midi channel disappears. How can I select these options while keeping the instrument track size small?*

[@stefanfelssner]

Pls make „tape style“ monitoring available for midi/instrument parts

[@357rawrock]

Thanks

[@LPW23]

How do you set track 1 plugin window on the left？when i open mine by default, it does not have that

[@ruslanmavlyanov2077]

*Nice*

[@thomasrothenberger]

Top!!!

[@TheRealMrSpirit]

Please Gregor can you Make a tutorial on How to initialize the mixing console At once.. in studio One???🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@ruskasielu6261]

Started the video off like "meh I already know this stuff" MAN WAS I WRONG. So many little features I didn't know existed

[@thecoastCoverband]

Hi Why don't I see a fader in studio one when I use external synt on an instrument channel

[@presonus]

Hi, because you need to monitor your external synth through an audio track. The midi notes from your instrument track are only sequencing the external synth, but the resulting sound needs to be recorded in audio. -GBY

[@toddwmac]

Great stuff as always...thanks! Hey PreSonus....a suggestion....hire an intern to cross reference and link all the great content from Gregor, Joe G (and others) into a video enhanced HTML version of The Studio One Users manual....if you do, just tell me where to send you more of my money.

[@presonus]

Very cool idea! Btw, my video tutorial series has been integrated quite nicely with the "Learn" section of our brand new Studio One product page recently. Check it out: www.presonus.com/products/Studio-One/studio-one-tutorials

[@cedricmialaret3300]

One of the feature request that has been posted years ago and still isn't taken into account is surround / multichannel support. Here's to hope for v5 or V5.1 ?

[@dmvtrax645]

Cédric Mialaret It’s other features in high demand beside that.

[@resslerartstudios]

Always very helpful, however you run through your tutorials very quickly. Meaning you are talking faster than you clicking or vise versa. I find myself having watch several times to follow. So glad to finally understand that tape style check. Have you done all the "wrench" options boxes? I discovered that many times my issues have been solved by the wrench...thanks again

[@presonus]

Hi Rich, thanks for your feedback! Are you feeling that I'm talking too fast in general, or just when I covered the tape style behavior? I have to admit that I rushed through the latter quite a bit because I didn't plan on discussing this feature in too much detail...it needs a lot more context than an overview video can provide. :) Anyways, thanks very much!! -GBY

[@resslerartstudios]

PreSonus Audio Electronics well, since you put that way maybe thats what in was sencing. May be a little to fast dependingbthe subject. But i do like the way you get right to the point.

[@kyfisher3662]

is there a way to automate the ON Off of a VST?

[@beatweezl]

Yes, you can automate the bypass button of any VST.

[@olanrewajuawosiku2523]

how do you get the tempo

[@presonus]

Hi Lenny, I'm not sure I understand. Could you please explain? -GBY

[@kian_jz]

long live PreSonus.

[@Joshxtra]

10:57 So I can either switch a Track between Auto-Monitoring/Input Monitoring and No Monitoring/Input Monitoring but not Tape-Monitoring/No Monitoring?? Nooooo!

[@metatron333ascension]

suggestion: whenever you disable the track maybe have a selection to disable and mute so that the disabled tracks arent still playing.

[@mikewalter4950]

Gregor for mayor TY

[@Emotionz223]

Ok what about a collapse mode feature like logic for the piano roll or a way to just view the midi notes you’ve recorded ONLY or zooming in on the midi notes with one click of a button

[@presonus]

Hi Emotionz22, good suggestion, thanks! I'll take some notes. :) In the meantime, try selecting your midi notes and then pressing Shift + S (default keyboard shortcut for "Zoom to Selection"). This will achieve the "zooming in on the midi notes with one click of a button" behavior that you were asking for. What you can also try is lock the zoom state of your Editor to the zoom state of your Arrangement. See here: www.dropbox.com/s/hymoq43cjwfbui4/Screenshot%202020-03-08%2009.11.07.png?dl=0 One more thing you might not be aware of yet is that Studio One remembers the last zoom state you had for each individual MIDI event. -GBY

[@Emotionz223]

@@presonus ok so how do I lock the zoom state on my midi notes the picture didn't really help and zoom to selection isn't effective. Can you make a quick video? Also is there a way to randomize velocity in piano roll yet like specifically speaking a hi hat i want to randomize the velocity ...if not is there a workaround ...thanks btw

[@presonus]

@@Emotionz223 select your MIDI notes and press Shift+S on your keyboard. Let me know what that does for you! ...and yes, randomizing velocity is very much possible now - in every kind of way you can imagine! Simply click on the Macro Toolbar symbol and from there, go to the "Note Actions" (or "Musical Editing") page. Then, select a couple of notes and click on these buttons that you see in the Toolbar! Dare to experiment..;) Even randomizing pitches (while keeping the selected scale) is just one click away since version 4.5, thanks to Macros...you can do mindblowing things with that. Funny side note - I was actually demonstrating this in my very first official PreSonus video (timed the video for you): kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3TPo6KGirupldk

[@TJ-hs1qm]

I have always the issue to forget whether another track has been armed already while recording. Accidentally overdubbing this track. How can I arm a track while automatically unarm all other tracks?

[@beatweezl]

He just showed you!!! There is the option for both audio and midi. Instrument Input follows selection and audio input follows selection.

[@WellWellWells]

@ like this video bro

[@cowatt502]

But what if i do want a 1 to 1 ratio!!!

[@chatter7653]

As a VERY long time Cakewalk DAW user, can anyone comment on Studio Ones merits versus Cakealk/Bandlabs DAW?

[@TheDesperateArtist]

Cakewalk - having sex with your wife. Studio One - having sex with your mistress...

[@EHall-zj9zy]

Studio One Feature Request: On Impact XT, when you explode your pitches to tracks, is it possible that each sound that is exploded is placed on a piano roll where you can move the sound up and down the scale. That way you can use more 808s in impact so you can have the ability to shift up and down the scale with 808s. Or is the already available in Studio One?

[@chichogp]

I don't think impact can do that. Try using sample one instead.

[@EHall-zj9zy]

Francisco Garcia Posse I figured it didn’t. Hopefully it will be in a future update.

[@chichogp]

@@EHall-zj9zy Yeah I know how you're feeling. My solution was using impact on the kit and sample1 on the 2 or 3 elements I want to play on different pitches

[@presonus]

Hi E. Hall, not sure if I understand your question correctly, but you can explode pitches to tracks with any MIDI event in Studio One - no matter whether the MIDI track containing these events is assigned to an Impact XT, Sample One XT, or other. After doing so, each note value will be placed on its own midi track with independent piano roll. From there you can move the sound up and down the scale freely. -GBY

[@chichogp]

@@presonus He's talking about fl studio like behavior. In s1 when you change the note on impact it plays a different pad, even after exploding the midi. In fl there's just a sampler so when you change the note it changes the pitch of the pad (like it does on sample one but not on impact).

[@DexxterClarkMusic]

here is one feature request that I submitted years ago: background rendering of tracks to audio to save CPU on playback (midi, effects etc are automatically rendered to WAV) video editing programs like Final Cut and Davinci do that for years now on titles, transitions, color correction etc

[@thisismyaccounthandle]

This is already a feature. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIiYZIiEZ6qDa7c (Studio One Minute: How to freeze Tracks)

[@simonkotschenreuther4730]

Feature reqeust: Please get Sourround mixing into Studio One!! PLEASE !!!

[@mr.nobody68]

Hi Gregor! I just thought you'd like to know that when you talk about record enabling a track or arming it to record, it is pronounced reecord with a long E. Record with a short E is like a vinyl record or you're making a record. Cheers!

[@vindieseldouble]

I don't need to unlock any features though. What I need is to connect my Telecaster to my Focusrite, open StudioOne, create a track for my specific guitar, record it and edit the dead air out of it. Where is that video?

[@officialWWM]

Thank god or the Internet. Imagine trying to learn all this stuff from a manual!

[@philfyphil]

I’d rather not even imagine it! :-)

[@jefflogan334]

Instrument following selection just doesn't work in S1-6. It works in S1-5. I'm sure its a setting elsewhere I did originally that I have to make but its crazy frustrating. I just tested it again and it just doesn't work.

[@presonus]

Hi, I cannot reproduce this issue on my end. Please log a support ticket so that we can log into this together: my.presonus.com/support/open -GBY

[@jefflogan334]

​@@presonus - I figured out that if I used a template with loaded instruments from S1-5 (Or maybe even an earlier version), it would act this way. If I started with a clean project, it would work. It was driving me crazy

[@jefflogan334]

I submitted a ticket. For the general audience, the response was basically create a new template. Not the end of the world.

[@DJminiLibra]

Ein Bot gibt wieder Daumen runter, lol :D Für uns S1 User sehr wertvolle Video Gregor! Danke...

[@aonethomas1584]

Gregor if you leave PreSonus I'm changing DAW's...

[@3profilm681]

hey Joe where you're going ;)

[@mranderson3975]

where the hell has it installed my purchased sample packs to?

[@richmillerofficial]

It would be nice if there was also an option for Mute follows selection, similar to Solo follows selection.

[@pascalhaux]

Super erklärt aber Presonus sollte das auch mal klären (Windows version of Studio One 4.5 is not able to send tracknames to iZotope "Relay"??? Really??? Sad!) answers.presonus.com/42040/windows-version-studio-send-tracknames-izotope-relay-really Ist echt ärgerlich. Gibts hier schon eine Lösung

[@NickCent]

Studio one has gui problems. You have to have a gaming pc to use it.

[@TheeRocker]

More cowbell !!! well actually, there was none,,, no cowbell ?

[@Jpetersson]

You´re saying record wrong lol! It´s not a world record or a vinyl record even, it´s ree-cord, as in recording music! Damn germans! :-D

[@FlatTire]

Studio One is great DAW. Unfortunately, external instrument (midi) integration is waaaay behind competition and that is why I went to Cubase 10.5 Pro instead of upgrading to S1v5... I was hoping v5 will finally introduce external instruments patch scripting and proper midi tracks and midi mixer, as well as midi format 1 and 0 export... I think I’ll stay on v4.6 untill Presonus decides to do something about this...

[@geebee44]

Im not understanding why all of these cant be set as defaults within preferences. Why should one have to set “ show input controls” on EVERY TRACK! Makes no sense at all. Something you’re going to want every time should be default setting enabled. Its good to have the wrench tool but lets make it all make sense. Half of these should be global settings controlled through the preference menu.

[@TheDoug2103]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP IT WITH THE THINGS WE CAN DO WITH OR WITHOUT A SHORTCUT AND DO JUST THIS ONE THING, WE HAVE BEEN SCREAMING FOR IT SINCE SLOW TOOLS..... A GD LYRIC STRIP !!!!!

[@shadowhenge7118]

Maybe I'll come back to SO someday. Needs a ton of work first, though. Some of the design choices are just plain lazy.

[@ElmerFerrer]

All that is great, and I love S1. My fave daw! But you didn't ad "no overlap when editing", (a basic function that was asked for years, for hundreds of people on your request page) until a couple of versions ago. And another basic function that has been asked too and nothing yet is to give the option of having "layers follow events" Off as default. How hard can be to ad that in a software like S1, that does the must advanced things in the world? That thing creates a huge mess in the layers you are not seeing if you forget to turn it off. And if you have it off and you duplicate the track, S1 turns it on again in the new track! Why!? That doesn't make any sense! I'm not the only one asking for this, check your request page, lots of professional people are asking for it since 2016! Please give us the option of having "layers follow events" off as default! Please!

[@citizenworld8094]

FEATURES REQUEST? VIDEO OPTIONS IS WAY OUT OF STEP WITH OTHER DAWS. C'mon guys... Logic Pro for video makes S1 look amateur - this should've been done years ago.

[@jamessims62]

Nobody wants to hear this.. studio one is one of the worst daws ever. You all dont listen to customer feedback. We been asking for sound on sound recording for years still no luck.

[@presonus]

Hi James, what makes you say that? Studio One absolutely has sound on sound recording. Sound on Sound recording lets you record without erasing the existing part. This is totally possible in Studio One. -GBY

[@jamessims62]

@@presonus no studio one has preroll and auto punch. U cant record and hear playback on the same track that's sound on sound recording

[@kaafaa5944]

u mean to record on the same track in addition ? playback and u put more note ?

[@jamessims62]

@@kaafaa5944 yes and hear what u already recorded at the same time

[@kaafaa5944]

@@jamessims62 is it this ? kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZykhn2fZ794obc at 19,05 min record mixed option

[@rickyguitarman3839]

on the Mix view, is it possible to go from Narrow to Normal view affecting Only Selected tracks????

[@presonus]

Hi Ricky, yes you can do that! Double click on a narrow mixer channel to bring it to its normal width (and vice versa). -GBY

[@rickyguitarman3839]

@@presonus what i meant was to open Only the selected Multiple tracks at once from narrow to normal without having to double click on each one of them.