I’ll start all the way down at the bottom of our audio information hierarchy, which is capture. So, while you absolutely should back up and archive all of your sessions and source data, it is a good idea to plan on also generating a set of audio files that represent the core elements of your mix. By contrast, though, in the future you will almost certainly still be able to access audio files in standard uncompressed formats such as WAV. So, simply backing up or archiving sessions and source data is not enough to guarantee you’ll be able to remix or remaster material in the future. It is not valid to assume that years in the future you will be able to open a session and do more work in it - and if you can’t open the session document, all of your editing, mixing and automation moves are gone. But tools, techniques and formats change, and there’s no guarantee that the next person to use your data will even be using the same DAW you did, let alone that they will have all of the same plug-ins and outboard equipment. Having (of course) made Mum happy, we might think we can back up our sessions and source material and be done. Do what you like I, for one, am not arguing with Mum. Studio One offers a number of tools to support this effort, so our subject this month is tying everything up with a nice bow.īefore we start our bow-tying, however, I must tell you that your mother called to say that if you haven’t given clear, logical, unique names and colour-coding to all of your tracks and takes and channels, or saved all of the presets from your plug-ins, then you’ll have no one to blame but yourself when you come back in eight months and don’t remember what any of that stuff was. Today, when an album or project is completed, there still remains one more major task, which is making sure the project can be revisited, should that ever be wished. Here, transforming the track captures both an outboard compressor inserted with the Pipeline plug-in, and Event FX that had not yet been rendered.Īrchiving your Studio One Songs in a future-proof format could save your life in years to come.įifty years ago, the Doors’ Jim Morrison sang “When the music’s over, turn out the lights,” but Jimbo never had to deal with packing up and backing up his data before he could call it a night. Screen 1: The Track Transform commands are ideal for capturing audio.

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