Lead Architect Explained
Studio One's new instrument, Lead Architect (available in Studio One+ only), is an impressive sonic tool that aims to get you great sounds fast, but with the ability to go deep with tweaking if you desire. In this Lead Architect video course, Studio One expert Eli Krantzberg will take you through the VI from the ground up, showing you everything from preset-scrolling all the way down to complex modulation routing and everything in between. By the time you're done with this Lead Architect course, you'll be ready to start using Lead Architect confidently and creatively on your very next track. These Lead Architect videos are for new Lead Architect users.
Videos
• Lead Architect Flyover (04:55) - Get a quick walkthrough of the structure of the Lead Architect interface.
• Main Control Panel & Saving Presets (03:06) - See how easy it is to create and save your own variations of the factory presets.
• Working with Part Presets (03:11) - Discover how to customize and save your own variations of the individual parts that make up a Lead Architect preset.
• Arpeggiator (04:48) - Explore this intuitive and creative tool, which is used to split up the notes of sustained chords into interesting rhythmic patterns.
• Repeater (04:25) - Hear how this tool can create interesting rhythmic repetitions of either incoming or sequenced notes with individual velocity, pitch, and gate offsets.
• Reverb & Delay (04:02) - Learn how to dial in custom reverb and delay values and send unique amounts to each from the three parts in Lead Architect presets.
• Low Frequency Oscillators (05:04) - Discover how LFOs and their associated parameters are used as a source to modulate targeted parameters, which are set up in the Lead Architect modulation matrix.
• Amplitude Envelope (05:03) - See how this is used to shape the volume of a note over its duration and how to set it up as a modulation source.
• Multimode Filter & Filter Envelope (05:03) - Explore the various filter types available with Lead Architect?s multimode filter and hear how the various parameters, including the filter envelope, influence its response.
• Other Part Settings (02:30) - See how to use the per-part sample start offset, coarse and fine tuning, volume and velocity controls, and polyphonic, monophonic, and glide modes.
• Part FX (04:23) - Get a brief overview of each of the modulation, bit crusher, distortion, water, EQ, and panning modulation effects available for each part in Lead Architect presets.
• Sound Design: Pulsing Bass (04:33) - Follow along as a bass preset is built up from scratch using two parts. LFOs are set up to modulate the filter cutoff in order to create a pulsing feel. LFO delay is used on one of the parts to create a slightly behind the beat feel, while the other is dropped an octave. Finally, distortion is used on both to add grit and weight to the sound.
• Sound Design: Moving Keys (05:53) - Explore creative use of the modulation ?via? field as a second LFO is used in conjunction with the first, targeting the filter cutoff. The result is a more complex rhythm than standard LFO-based musical subdivisions.
• Sound Design: Melodic Power Pluck (02:25) - Hear how the Repeater is used to create a short melodic hook that's tuned to the chord used in the song.
• Sound Design: Arp & Sustain (03:41) - See how the default settings are tweaked to include a melodic arpeggiated pattern from one part, sustained chords from another, and the root note from the third.
• Sound Design: Melodic Glide (02:37) - Discover how a few simple changes to a factory preset that features some portamento glide helps the sound become more interesting, stand out more, and draw the listener?s attention better.
• Final Playthrough (03:07) - Listen to a short arrangement built up with the five custom sounds designed in the last five videos.