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After adding your Tracks, select any Track in the list to edit its information in Track Info and More Info. If you want the Track

to be available publicly, meaning any SoundCloud user can see it, select this option under Track Info. If you want the

uploaded file for Track to be downloadable or streamable, select the corresponding option under More Info.

When finished editing Track information, click on Upload to upload the Tracks to SoundCloud. The Tracks appear in your

SoundCloud account once the upload has completed.

Song and Project Integration

At the center of Studio One Professional’s design is Song and Project integration. This is where the usual gaps between

mixing and mastering have finally been eliminated. When Songs are placed in a Project, a link is established that allows the

Song and Project to be intelligently aware of each other so that changes to either are known to both. This integration, as

described in the following sections, is sure to change the way you think about mixing and mastering.

Open a Song from Within a Project

During mastering, changes are often needed in various Tracks in a Project, after which changes to the mix are made.

Traditionally, this process can be grossly inefficient, taking many hours, if not days or weeks.

In Studio One, however, you can quickly make changes to the mix of a Song in your Project. To open a Song in your

Project, click on the [Edit] button (labeled with a small icon of a wrench)in any Track in the Track column. Your Song opens

on the Song page, where you can make your changes. When finished, save and close the Song.

When you go back to the Project page, or open the Project in the future, you are prompted with a message informing you

that the master file is no longer current for the Song to which you just made changes, and you are given the opportunity to

update the master file. The Automatic Update of Mastering Files section below explains this option.

Automatic Update of Mastering Files

Of the most common questions that arise when mastering is also one of the most time-consuming: “Are these mixes the

most current versions?” Often, changes are made to multitrack mixes in response to problems found during mastering.

When these changes are made, new mixes have to be created and reinserted into the mastering Project.

There can be many rounds of changes for each track, resulting in a potentially confusing situation in which it is hard to tell

which mix is which, and which is the final version that should be in the mastering Project. When the right mix file is finally

found, the old mix is removed, and the new mix is added back into the Project, usually requiring re-sequencing the tracks in

the Project.

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