My New Collaborative Workflow for 2020 - PreSonus Studio One
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, so this will be my first official post of 2020! First off, let me start off by saying that I wish you ALL the best for a productive and prosperous year. And - I’ve got a ton of useful content planned.
Secondly, I will say this: Make sure you back up your system regularly! And also make sure that you’re backing up your recent projects (sessions) to external drives. :) I’ve had quite a few issues with my current system over the last 4-5 weeks, so much so that it was time to move onto a new one. (More on this later)
But now that I’ve got things temporarily sorted out again - Let’s talk about Collaboration…
It’s not uncommon these days for multiple people to be working on a single project. It’s also not uncommon for each of these individuals to have their own home-based setup where they can work. This leads to sharing sessions.
Now for the most part, I don’t usually share the “Master” Sessions over dropbox, but rather a streamlined version of the session that’s created especially for the artists doing additional overdubs / production. So for a singer, this could be something as simple as a rendered stereo Instrumental Mixdown - or in cases where more flexibility is required - Varying degrees of Stems. From here, I make regular use of the “Import Song Data” functions within Studio One to easily bring over additional elements from my “Master” Song.
But one area that I’ve never really paid attention to (which I should) has been file size. Not everyone has unlimited cloud storage, and space on their systems - This is actually something that came up recently, and I thought it may be useful to some of you who are reading this article.
So needless to say, I've recently made some changes to my workflow that I use when collaborating with other Studio One User's via Dropbox. (Also applies to other cloud based sharing options). In this video, I demonstrate the basic's as well as give an explanation as to why I've made changes to how I approach "sharing" sessions.
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Cheers, Marcus
