

The Arranger Track can be a useful place to visually lay out the intentions of your project to better organise what you’re going to do. It can save an enormous amount of editing and once you get it into your workflow you’ll find yourself starting your projects with the Arranger Track in mind. You can rearrange them or replace one with another with just a drag and drop, and Studio One does all the hard work for you. And that’s the point of the Arranger Track: it allows you to move entire sections from all your tracks with a single mouse move. So, if you move a section in the Arranger Track, Studio One will cut through all the clips across all the tracks and take them with it. Once a section is created it will act as if everything beneath it belongs to it. You can rename a section to anything you like, choose a colour and resize it to fit around the section you are trying to define. You’d commonly define sections as Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge and so on, although you can break as many conventions as you like - Studio One doesn’t care. The initial idea with the Arranger Track is to break your song up into sections and define what they are. This is where you can also access the Marker, Chords, Key Signature, Ruler and Tempo Tracks.ĭouble‑click in the Arranger Track and Studio One will automatically add a bar‑sized section and name it ‘Intro’ because it believes you must surely be starting with an intro. You can activate them by selecting them from the menu that appears when you click on the Global Track Visibility button just to the left of the big + Add Track icon. You’ll find the Arranger Track in that collection of utility tracks that appear under the timeline. In this month’s workshop we’ll look at some rather useful connections and interactions that are unique to Studio One and offer a fast way to edit and evolve your music with the minimum amount of clicks and mouse travel. Scratch Pads give you a place to play outside of that structure away from the arrangement of the track you’re building so that they don’t interfere or get confused. The Arranger Track helps you define and structure your music.

Structure your music with the Arranger Track. The Arranger Track can be made visible from the Global Track Visibility menu, at which point it appears below the timeline.
