When I try to single out a certain part of a recording in studio one and put an effect on it, the effect is applied to the entire recording, not just to the part I want the effect on. I usually ending seperating a part of the recording and put on a seperate track. Does anyone know how to put on an effect for just a short part of a recording without it affecting the entire thing like can be done in other DAW's.

You can use track automation. This can be used for almost anything, like volume, pan, any effect, or any single parameter of the effect. When you adjust any parameter of an effect, look at the top left part of your screen. In a dark box, you'll see a little icon of a hand. Drag that hand onto the track, and voila! You'll have an automation track, which you can use to adjust the level of the parameter (or overall level) of the effect.
If this is not entirely clear, I suggest the free tutorials by Johnny Geib. Just google his name, and look through the videos, and find one related to 'automation'. He explains it all really nicely.
Also see: 'Event FX' This lets you put an effect on only one part of a track. (With automation, you could have your automation curve at '0' everywhere except where you need it, but with Event FX, the effect only applies to a section of a track that you have selected.

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Meh, I don't like using automation in these spots. I'd much prefer to highlight the section of the clip that I want to apply processing to, 'split clip at selection' and then apply the effect to that clip. You have to enable clip-based processing first...

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You certainly can apply effects to an individual audio event on a whole track. First separate that section of audio out using the knife tool. It will either be cut on the grid the or cut close to. (set snap accordingly if you have to make fine cuts)
Then open the inspector (F4) and select that particular audio event. On the left you can now insert an effect just over the selected section of audio. Simple as that, very handy and cool. When the separate audo event is selected you will see Event FX TAB with ENABLE next to it. Click on ENABLE and the FX bin for just that segment will drop down. You can now insert any effect in there.
See section 6.11.1 on page 93 of the V2 reference manual.
You can also render the effect into that piece of audio as well and free up CPU resources of that is an issue for you.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wf0eOhWWbwI

Thanks. This vid was very helpful. I've also been looking for a way to do this. Easier than messing with automation in my opinion

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Thanks for the help guys. It's very simple now that I know how to do it. Awesome

Now when I try to use the Event FX in the Inspector tool, the effect goes to the whole track rather than just to the section selected. I must have unintentionally enabled or disabled something. It worked before but now I can only apply the FX to the whole track. Anyone else experince this?

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Korg Digital Piano
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Did you uncheck the box for event FX?

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Why does everyone make it so hard? Just create a new audio track without any effects, record or whatever, then open 'effects' and drag the desired one on top of the track and release! Simpler!

He wants to put audio plugins on a clip, not on the track.
Drag and drop with a modifier directly to a clip or multiple clips at once and also open up the Event FX chain directly from the clip. There's never any need to go to the clip inspector for that..
P.S. There's been an action Insert Event FX for awhile so you could easily, for example, make a macro to drop an EQ on a section of an audio clip.

- Split
- Insert Event FX
- Create Crossfades
If you draw a range it will split the range and put the EQ plugin on that section. If you select a clip normally it will ignore the split command and still insert the EQ on the clip.

I have a 30 some track song consisting of EZdrummer tracks, vocals, guitar, etc. on a computer that I am worrying will crash soon. I purchased a new PC and installed studio one and EZdrummer on it and would like to transfer the song from my old PC to my new one. Not being super computer literate I am wondering if someone could be so kind as to provide me with a step by step procedure for moving the song onto my new PC. I am assuming it has something to do with using a USB memory stick which I have. Also, I don't need all of the 'takes' from the vocals, guitar, etc. moved over (lots and lots of takes) but just the most recent take from each of the tracks moved over. Thanks so much in advance for your help.

I would suggest that you transfer everything and once in the new computer, you can delete what you don't need, to ensure that everything gets transferred click on Song>Copy External Files and then just simply copy the folder to the USB stick.

Thanks for the reply but I must be doing something wrong.... I select Song>Copy External Files and a window opens that says 'Do you want to copy these external files to the Media Foler?'. At the bottom of the window it says 'yes' 'no'. In the middle of the window is a path listed on my C drive with no way to change the path to go to my USB stick. Not sure what to do?

nickkahle wroteThanks for the reply but I must be doing something wrong.... I select Song>Copy External Files and a window opens that says 'Do you want to copy these external files to the Media Foler?'. At the bottom of the window it says 'yes' 'no'. In the middle of the window is a path listed on my C drive with no way to change the path to go to my USB stick. Not sure what to do?

What the Copy External Files does is it puts any audio file you may have dragged into the song into the media folder where all the audio files reside for the song. Once you do that your Song will be ready to copy to the USB stick.
Find the song folder on you hard drive and simply drag it to you USB stick and it will copy the whole folder. The folder where your song is located will have a song file, media folder etc.
Any time you creat a new song you'll want to create a FOLDER and name it as the song name, this way your recordings , song file, media folder etc is always in one folder. Just make sure you Copy External Files as well if you have dragged things into the project. Studio One doesn't automatically store those audio files you drag into the song unless you tell it to using that function
1. Copy External Files
2. Now go and find the FOLDER which has the song in it on your HD, drag it to your USB stick and your done

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Thanks for the information as it was very helpful. However, I don't mean to go on but I still am having problems. The following is a summary of what is happening to me
1. I have a song on my HP Vista laptop that I want to transfer over to my new Toshiba Windows 8.1 laptop as my HP is getting kind of flaky on me.
2. I downloaded studio one and installed on my Toshiba along with Ezdrummer
3. I followed the procedure to get my song onto a USB drive from my HP laptop
4. I start up studio one on my Toshiba and get the following messages during the power up sequence: 'Failed to open speakers (2 - Audiobox USB)!' and a message right after that saying 'AUDIo Playback is Disabled'
5. When Studio one comes up I load up my song from the USB stick and get the message:
Missing Devices
Device/Port Used by
ezdrummer 6 - ezdrummer
ezdrummer 7 - ezdrummer2
ezdrummer 8 - ezdrummer3
6. I try to play the song that is now loaded in studio one and there is no sound.....
Any ideas
Thanks again

I have an update from my previous post.
I was told to download a new driver for my AudioBox USB that is for windows 8 and it worked! My error messages reported in step 4 were resolved and I now have sound so step 6 is also fixed.
However, I still have one last issue and that is step 5 - I still have no drum sound and still get the error described previously in step 5. Getting so so close but not sure why studio one doesn't find my ezdrummer software....
Again - any help is very appreciated as I am not a computer type person. Thanks

Thanks Luis for the reply. Before I make any changes I want to tell you what I have on my Toshiba laptop running windows 8.1
1. I downloaded and run studio one 64 bit
2. in the path c:ProgramfilesVstPluginsToontrack exists just one file (ezdrummer.dll) and no folders
3. in the path c:Programfiles(x86)ToontrackEZdrummer exist numerous directories including EZX_Americana, EZXCocktail, EZX_Nashville, EZX_Percussion, etc... and each of these directories branch out into more directories and files
It appears that I may have a hodge podge of 64 bit and 32 bit things going on. I assume that since I use the 64 bit version of studio one that my ezdrummer stuff should all reside in the c:Programfiles directory structure and not in the c:Programfiles(x86). Before I do anything though I feel that I should check with you one more time before I really screw up my ezdrummer stuff.
Thanks again for your help.

Click on Studio One Preferences>Locations>Vst Plugins and make sure that the path of your plugins is in there.

Well, i wasn't able to find where to set the info for vst plugins. I did the following:
1. launched studio one
2. when studio one came up i selected 'studio one'
3. pull down i selected options
4. pop up i then selected locations
5. i cycled through all options but only saw options for the following
a. user data
b. file types
c. sound sets
d. instrument library

I'm showing you the menu on the Mac but it is the same for Windows.
When you press [Ctrl]/[,] the menu that comes up looks the same in Mac and Windows.

Thanks Luis,
but when i get to the .../options/locations i can only select from user data, file types, sound sets, or instrument library. no option to select VST and enter a path...

Your problem is that you are using either the free version or Artist,in those versions you can't use third party plugins,
that's the reason you can't see the VST Plugins section.
You mentioned that you wanted to transfer a song which contains EZdrummer tracks, so I don't understand whats going on.

thanks for all of the help, I will try tech support.

I think that's the best option, as you can see in these screenshots the option for Vst it's not there,like I said I don't know what's going on.

I am in the process of transferring songs to a new pc. i hadnt used any plugins on any old tracks i have, i succesfully moved thew songs folder onto a usb drive and plugged it into my new pc.
ive installed all sounds used for previous tracks on the new pc. i am able to open the songs in studio one v1 64 bit, but am having the error message 'missing devices'. ive tried updating my driver for the audiobox usb but am still missing devices. not sure what can fix this, not computer savvy, any help is appreciated. sorry if this has been answered a thousand times, but im not getting it...