Hey guys,

I've experienced a very specific scenario where I did a Piano live recording of 9 tracks. 8 mics used.
- 4 front mics placed in front of the upright piano.
- 2 blumlein ribbon mics for stereo width and room
- 2 414 pair AB

I did the recording in PT and exported all from the studio as audio WAV files. I need to import them into Studio One. The files are properly named. Piano Blumlein Ribbon Highs R, Piano Blumlein Ribbon Lows L...

I need to pan them at a specific panning value. I can do that with 1 take for 8 mics. But I need to do the same panning and fader volume for all the mics to all the recordings of the 9 tracks. It takes ages to do manually, and even though I can create 8 tracks that are panned and properly volume adjusted, then copy those and import the files into existing properly configured tracks it's not convenient.

I'd like to ask if anyone expert in Studio One scripts knows a way to select/filter tracks by containing any words that I decide. That way I could pan all the tracks that are Lows L to the left and the ones Highs R to the right. It would be much easier and faster.

If there's a macro script on the internet to do that I'd highly appreciate if you could share it.

I'm in a hurry with this project and I don't know how to handle this.

Thank you so so much!

Lecram

 

I don't use Studio One, but I do not remember ever seeing a DAW with similar feature. There should be some more basic ways to do what you want. You can setup 2 groups and route the highs to bus 1, and lows to bus 2. You could even insert something like Auburn Panagement 2 on the group channels, so that you are only panning using one plugin instance per group. You could also insert a utility plugin so they are all converted to mono playback. (non-destructively). You could also use a plugin which you can unlink the L and R and drop one side to -inf dB.

Another way would be to make sure all your channels are named correctly. Some DAW have renaming functions which will match the track names to the audio regions on that track. You could even use your daw's Color feature to make 1 set of them blue, and the others red. As example. Just to keep track of them more easily. If you were to bounce all your tracks so that they have LOW or HIGH in their filenames, you could setup a project with 2 empty audio tracks. Setup the panning on the two channels, one L and one R. Duplicate that track to have enough L and R panned tracks. Go into your file browser, use the search function or wildcard* to result only in the ones you want, and then just drag them into the matching empty channels you created for them.

Your idea sounds interesting, but it took me longer to type this than it would have to just setup this kind of project in my DAW.

 

you can already do that no script needed, just go to your mixer and bottom left on your channels you should see a search bar , just make sure the audio tracks contain the keyword you'd want to filter to.

 

Not sure about a name filter macro but you can select all the l tracks by clicking one and holding ctrl on Windows and then you can pan them together . New to version 6.5 I think . Hope this helps . Oh you could make a macro for once you select the tracks with amounts

 

Thank you so much! That did the trick

 

I found this in PreSonus Forums but the download link is dead: If anyone knows Lawrence or has the script, I think it might also be useful for other stuff.

Lawrence's:
useful_actions.package
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2q9jpt7mdiiksm2/useful_actions.package?dl=0
Last Update: 0.0.7 Fixed fatal bug in Replace Track Names
:Append Track Name ("Name")
:Clear Track Filter [show all tracks after filtering below]
:Filter Selected Tracks [hide all but selected tracks and zoom vertical]
:Recall View ("Name")
:Remove Empty Tracks
:Rename Instrument [after selected track]
:Replace Track Names [dialog, case sensitive matching]
:Set Channel Mode ("State") [""=toggle,0=mono,1=stereo]
:Set Channel Pan ("Pan") [1=Left, 0.5=Center 0=Right]
:Set Track Color ("HexColor")
:Set Track Name ("Name", "Next") [Next = "1" is navigate to next track after rename]
:Store View ("Name")
:Strip Numbers [strip numbers from all track names]

Thank you so much!!