I'm sure one of the three or four fantastic makers of Studio One tutorial videos have covered this. Did you do a YouTube search?

So I found a video that was helpful with audio bend. In this video, Joe Gilder moves tracks around without going through the fuss of putting in bend points, analyzing them, moving them around, etc.



How do I do that? Is that a SO4 only thing?

It's not a V4 only thing. It came around in V3 somewhere, or possibly earlier.

I haven't watched it but try this one. He's one of the better S1 gurus. Also check out Studo One Expert.

This is what Vocal Align is for out of the box.
You can also do a fairly good job with Melodyne to lineup syllables but it is an advanced technique that splitting blobs and stretching /moving consonant areas.

jpettit wroteThis is what Vocal Align is for out of the box.
You can also do a fairly good job with Melodyne to lineup syllables but it is an advanced technique that splitting blobs and stretching /moving consonant areas.

Splitting blobs doesn't seem possible in the version of melodyne that comes with Studio One. So I guess I'll need to upgrade if I wanna do that...

Still my question hasn't been answered: How do I do what Joe did in that video? He's clearly not using audio bend at all but somehow Studio One knows to bend the waveform around like that. How?

codyhazelle wroteSplitting blobs doesn't seem possible in the version of melodyne that comes with Studio One. So I guess I'll need to upgrade if I wanna do that...

Nope. Splitting blobs is possible in the entry-level version of melodyne. You might have to read some documentation....

codyhazelle wroteStill my question hasn't been answered: How do I do what Joe did in that video? He's clearly not using audio bend at all but somehow Studio One knows to bend the waveform around like that. How?

It looks like he's sliding the event sideways within the event container.. so he's not actually bending the waveform. The function is called slip event. I think you hold down Ctrl + alt and then drag with the mouse on a PC.

My real world results with that technique are not that great. It's really easy to create an edit that sounds completely unnatural. As you are sliding the audio within the event container, it's easy for noises that were previously hidden to come into the window.

I would suggest using audio Bend instead. And audio Bend has been around since version 2 of Studio One, so it's not like something that you have to buy an external package for. You would still group all the drum tracks together so that the bleed in all the microphones are fixed at the same time.

codyhazelle wroteI hear audio bend is pretty good for stuff like this but frankly I'm lost. Maybe I should just read the manual on it.

Bingo..... I know you want to just dive in and start working without reading the manual, but this is one of the instances where spending some time reading documentation can really pay off. A DAW is really too complicated to grasp all the subtleties without reading.

Audio Bend is brilliant for lining up consonants so that your background vocals all have the same phrasing.