Made in Studio One

[MisterE]

There was some brief discussion a few months ago about recreating the "Made in Studio One" section from the old forum. Since to date a sub-forum has not yet been created, and I imagine I'm not the only person who'd like to contribute material, I'll start things off in this forum with a few productions fresh out of the oven:

The Milkmen - 2025 Tunes

The Milkmen music.

themilkmen.space

You'll find one song about the joys and dangers of wingsuit flying, and another about an August encounter at a hot springs when fields of giant sunflowers are bloom.

Enjoy!

 

[Retrodbryant]

I love this idea. Thanks for sharing!

 

[scottyo7]

I was one of the 24 people who visited that site to listen to what us S1 users were creating.
Here's what I noticed over the last 4-5 years:

1. Most submittals were by the same ~few artists.
2. Maybe a new person/artist submitted in a blue moon.
3. One guy submitted some strange stuff nearly every other day and it didn't take long till most of us avoided him.
4. I'd like to have seen more activity but it can't be forced, we create when the muse visits us.

I'm not a network guru but it seems other than running another sub-forum users just submit song links?

Wouldn't it soley be our brower that streams the content... this forum wouldn't take a bandwidth hit would it?

 

[lokeyfly]

Yes, I made a post early on in this forum if it were possible to start a separate "Made in Studio One" sub forum. Lukas was gracious in responding that while that a sub forum was being looked at, it was ok to post links to YouTube, SoundCloud and such. Actually, links were all I meant. That way theres little issue with bandwidth.

I've just been too busy to post, but I've released some made in Studio One 7.x songs and will provide them soon. One just released this morning. Back in a while. Nice to see some familiar faces.

 

[lokeyfly]

Keeping with the "Made in Studio One" tradition. I released this song on my YT channel, just this morning.

The "Spaces Between Friends" by James Conrad Tucker.

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I've dedicated the song to my nearly life long friend (since we were twelve years old), son. Tragically, He, and his wife lost their son of only twenty five years old to the brutal massacre on New Years Day morning, to a terrorist mowing down fourteen killed (and many more wounded) on Bourbon St., Louisiana (French Quarter). I called him that day, thinking only as a gesture, if everything was alright. One never thinks it was their youngest boy. So anyway, the song wasn't to portray the accident, but to remind ourselves that each day is a blessing. So maybe call your old friend this week, relative or loved one.
To our forum family of friends here, enjoy and be safe.
Please click like if it's not too much trouble.
TY. God's speed, Matthew.

 

[Lukas]

FYI, I prepared the "Made in Studio One" forum over the weekend and we will make it public soon

 

[MisterE]

Keeping with the "Made in Studio One" tradition. I released this song on my YT channel, just this morning.

The "Spaces Between Friends" by James Conrad Tucker.

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I've dedicated the song to my nearly life long friend (since we were twelve years old), son. Tragically, He, and his wife lost their son of only twenty five years old to the brutal massacre on New Years Day morning, to a terrorist mowing down fourteen killed (and many more wounded) on Bourbon St., Louisiana (French Quarter). I called him that day, thinking only as a gesture, if everything was alright. One never thinks it was their youngest boy. So anyway, the song wasn't to portray the accident, but to remind ourselves that each day is a blessing. So maybe call your old friend this week, relative or loved one.
To our forum family of friends here, enjoy and be safe.
Please click like if it's not too much trouble.
TY. God's speed, Matthew.

What I like about that is that in a DAW climate where people obsess over high track counts and high plugin counts, "Spaces Between Friends" proves you don't need a full virtual orchestra to convey emotive material, just a handful of the right tracks can get the point across just as well

 

[lokeyfly]

FYI, I prepared the "Made in Studio One" forum over the weekend and we will make it public soon

You're the best, Lukas!

 

[MisterE]

FYI, I prepared the "Made in Studio One" forum over the weekend and we will make it public soon

Thanks for getting to that. Let me offer a couple of reasons why it will be an attribute to the forum:

1) Every Presonus video by Gregor and Joe shows ways to improve snippets of song sections, like here's this 14-second part before and now with this new feature here's the same 14 seconds. That would be all well and good if most people spent their time listening to 14-second snippets instead of full songs. I'm not saying that information isn't valuable, I'm saying most people don't buy Studio One to create 14-second mini songs, they buy it to produce full songs ... so it's helpful to hear full songs created in S1 that take full advantage of all its tools. Full songs demonstrate full possibilities.

2) When Presonus does release videos with full songs, invariably they're by someones who just won a Grammy or had 2 million clicks on Spotify. That's also all well and good, but sometimes it's reassuring—if not inspiring—to realize that many of us are living out our recording dreams even if we haven't won Grammies or gone viral on Spotify.

 

[lokeyfly]

What I like about that is that in a DAW climate where people obsess over high track counts and high plugin counts, "Spaces Between Friends" proves you don't need a full virtual orchestra to convey emotive material, just a handful of the right tracks can get the point across just as well

Yes, glad you picked up on that! I had these three or four long synthesis ambient swell parts. All different using Pigments. I really didn't want to bury the parts in orchestration. Particularly the last swell where the violinist imagery turns blue. Sort of a very "alone" or tragic passage of the video. But I thought it ok to still portray the violinist bows with that last long sweep. Makes for a great effect. There's roughly around twenty stereo tracks, but only one actual acoustic cello track. Nice that you noticed MisterE. TY.

Yes, the spirit and movement of the material should always outshine any predisposition (one might have) of what a song may seemingly need. You get that and I like that you pointed that out. Another song will get different treatments, based on its own vibe/destiny.

 

[ianaeillo]

James my only critique is that it could be 30 minutes long and still as enjoyable. Loved every second of it. Beautiful and heart wrenching as is, more so after I came back to this page and read the backstory. I’m so sorry for your loss and for the loss of your friend.

Keeping with the "Made in Studio One" tradition. I released this song on my YT channel, just this morning.

The "Spaces Between Friends" by James Conrad Tucker.

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I've dedicated the song to my nearly life long friend (since we were twelve years old), son. Tragically, He, and his wife lost their son of only twenty five years old to the brutal massacre on New Years Day morning, to a terrorist mowing down fourteen killed (and many more wounded) on Bourbon St., Louisiana (French Quarter). I called him that day, thinking only as a gesture, if everything was alright. One never thinks it was their youngest boy. So anyway, the song wasn't to portray the accident, but to remind ourselves that each day is a blessing. So maybe call your old friend this week, relative or loved one.
To our forum family of friends here, enjoy and be safe.
Please click like if it's not too much trouble.
TY. God's speed, Matthew.

 

[lokeyfly]

James my only critique is that it could be 30 minutes long and still as enjoyable. Loved every second of it. Beautiful and heart wrenching as is, more so after I came back to this page and read the backstory. I’m so sorry for your loss and for the loss of your friend.

Thank you Brother. I can't fathom such a loss, but could only lend support by being there. I was simply running on auto-pilot for a friend. We taught each other guitar licks, Studio production techniques, and really every musical inspiration since being kids. That hasn't changed, either.

You touch on a really great point about song length. I'm trying to find a place for various songs, and part of me runs with "well, attention span these days are limited". Other times I might choose a six minute length, so I always leave it up to the musical vibe. Admittedly, I want to try a few ten-plus minute long songs, because that's really quite an interesting element unto itself. Many of us grew up on those progressive works that made incredible use of point, counter-point, seguays, or just longer themes. It's all good, and part of what life the music takes on, or the creator wants to make from it. Pretty cool in the way of options. Thank you ianaeillo for recommending that "The Space Between Friends" be longer. Truly.

 

[Craig Anderton]

First of all, thumbs way up on the music and video. Well done. I can't imagine the horror of losing a child to a terrorist attack.

You touch on a really great point about song length. I'm trying to find a place for various songs, and part of me runs with "well, attention span these days are limited".

Here's a data point for you. For my latest album, Unconstrained (done entirely in Studio One), I decided to hell with trying to force things into structure or categories. Some pieces are 30 seconds long, some are 3 minutes. There's europop-type stuff mixed in hard rock, blues harmonica, instrumentals, one song with a Caribbean flavor, whatever, all as one 20-minute continuous piece of music (i.e., like a DJ set). It recently overtook all my other albums in terms of clicks, and given that I don't promote my YouTube site, I can only assume it has that many clicks because people not only don't have a problem with the format, they may actually like it. So, do whatever works for you. Your audience will find you!

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[MisterE]

Hey Craig, I've got the flip side for your "Factory Girl"—my "Fifteen Minutes of Fame," song #3 on this playlist:

The Milkmen - LK Demos

The Milkmen music.

themilkmen.space

Just a demo, but a demo made in Studio One.

My favorite instrumental part is the harmonica on "Disposable." I'm not sure why such a vibey instrument is so underused.

btw, since this is the Lounge and we don't have to worry about hijacking threads, I'm pretty sure I was the last writer you hired before you left Electronic Musician!

 

[lokeyfly]

First of all, thumbs way up on the music and video. Well done.

Thanks man, so appreciated

Here's a data point for you. For my latest album, Unconstrained (done entirely in Studio One), I decided to hell with trying to force things into structure or cacategoriesI

I completely agree. The freedom of going Indy is wonderful! No structural deadlines, no time restrictions, no corporate.... "Get em' out by Friday". The "Made in" sub forum will be a nice location for sharing ideas, releases, doodles, and generally seeing what the forum members here are up too. Such forums are too infiltrated with members consisting of terminal GAS (pssst, don't light a match!) ️ Seriously, putting ones work forward, we could write a whole article on, and much of the difficulty is often getting over the obsession most song writers have, that releasing something need be perfect. Both young, and old! This is one of the areas I am most passionate about when helping others, is encouraging their work, and getting it off of the ground. It was also one of my first posts here, in requesting a made in Studio One environment. I look forward to hearing all you folks' work. Both in listening, conversation, and passion. It will hopefully be an encouraging place, we can all enjoy.
BTW, I enjoyed hearing "Unconstrained". Sounds like you had a fun time with it. The free-form structure was right on time. ; )

 

[Craig Anderton]

This forum could also provide a place for people to ask "How did you get that sound/effect?" For example, MisterE liked the harmonica on one of my songs. I always use an amp sim for getting a blues harp sound. A lot of those players went through guitar amps, so using a cab and spring reverb can help give a vintage Chicago Blues vibe.

 

[MisterE]

This forum could also provide a place for people to ask "How did you get that sound/effect?" For example, MisterE liked the harmonica on one of my songs. I always use an amp sim for getting a blues harp sound. A lot of those players went through guitar amps, so using a cab and spring reverb can help give a vintage Chicago Blues vibe.

It's also fun to sing through an amp sim.

 

[lokeyfly]

This forum could also provide a place for people to ask "How did you get that sound/effect?"

I get that. Every once in a while (like ten minutes ago), Studio One serves up something so ridiculously powerful, that I want to scream out to the world what just happened. It was really just a case of playing a guitar track, and I played one chord sort of a slow strum power chord. Only, a few beats away, I wanted another chord. Yet even another. To be precise C#maj7, to Fm7, to Fm. I don't like leaving [Follow Chords] on because I change a lot of notes and phrasing as a song progresses. So I simply set the track to follow chords, brought the section of the chord in, by isolating and bouncing that, then dragging into the chord track changed my chords, and the result is just outstanding. I bounced the results, turned off Follow Chords, and we're off and running. I might not have ever considered that chord transition and sequence. Of course using Follow Track with MIDI notes is great, but it really is pretty amazing with audio as well. MMV, but the chord track is a serious tool to reckon with with digital audio. "Who are these guys?"

Going forward, I could always simply post this as a topic, but it might be nice to have a section of such places as "How'd you done du dat!"
It could prompt other users to try them out. Few people know about this more than Craig who write books and articles on such things, but I just wanted to share in encouraging his suggestion.

Anyway, when the song is completed and or near released, I'll note this. Seriously awesome, Studio One is the $#/+! : )

 

[Craig Anderton]

For me, the chord track is Studio One's superpower for songwriting.

 

[MisterE]

it might be nice to have a section of such places as "How'd you done du dat!"