Producer/Engineer and Pro Tools Educator, Chris Bryant displays how to fly through the process of labeling you I/O's by making use of yet another great, time-saving, right-mouse-click feature. In this tutorial, Chris Bryant shows you how to rename inputs, outputs and busses without ever leaving the mixer window.http://www.showmeprotools.com and http://www.protoolskillertips.com
Producer/Engineer and Pro Tools Educator, Chris Bryant tutorial. Got an Apple Mighty Mouse but havent started taking advantage of the cool right-clicking features in Digidesign Pro Tools yet? What are you waiting for! In this video, Chris Bryant shows you a simple OSX Mouse setting that will make the mighty mouse.even mightier.http://www.showmeprotools.com and http://www.protoolskillertips.com
Producer/Engineer and Pro Tools Educator, Chris Bryant shows you how to create a classic synth sound using the key input on the Digidesign Expander/Gate plug-in, an old Boss drum machine hihat sample and the Xpand virtual instrument. This is a must-see for everyone producing music!http://www.showmeprotools.com and http://www.protoolskillertips.com
Producer/Engineer and Pro Tools Educator, Chris Bryant shows that Pro Tools has two banks of five Sends on each channel. Sometimes you want to see the detailed settings of a single Send. Other times, you want to see a birds-eye view of all five Send assignments in a bank. In this tutorial, long-time Pro Tools educator Chris Bryant demonstrates how to switch between these two views quickly and easily.http://www.showmeprotools.com and http://www.protoolskillertips.com
Whether you run Pro Tools on a slower or a faster computer, you should know how to get the most out of your system. In this tutorial I give you the low-down on the settings available in the Playback Engine. I explain how I set it up for each phase of my session, from tracking to editing and mixing, so that I leverage lower latency/higher CPU performance vs. higher latency/lower CPU performance at the right time. Understanding how to manager your resources in Pro Tools is a must for every end-user.
You either love it, or your hate it - yes, I'm talking about the Smart Tool in Pro Tools. I've seen some absolutely fly around Pro Tools using it without having to mess with memorizing key commands or return trips to the toolbar with the mouse, while others pound on the desk in frustration trying to figure out which tool in the Smart Tool lottery they are going to end up with next. In this tutorial, I demystify the Smart Tool and tell you how to work with it...well, smartly.
Sometimes it's nice to learn cool tricks, even if they aren't incredibly useful just because they can be done. In this tutorial, we take a break from building the basic Pro Tools skills and I show a couple of tweaks you can make to the Mix window...okay, they are pretty useful, just not earth shattering. I'm sure more than a few of you know them already, but for those that don't enjoy.
Whether you run Pro Tools on a slower or a faster computer, you should know how to get the most out of your system. In this tutorial I give you the low-down on the settings available in the Playback Engine. I explain how I set it up for each phase of my session, from tracking to editing and mixing, so that I leverage lower latency/higher CPU performance vs. higher latency/lower CPU performance at the right time. Understanding how to manager your resources in Pro Tools is a must for every end-user.
Building off the previous tutorial, we continue to learn techniques to help navigate our session. In this tutorial I share my favorite methods for zooming track heights in the Edit window. I often find that even end-users that have been using Pro Tools for a long time don' always know these key commands, so it's worth checking out even if you think you'e got it down.
Continuing to build our chops for whipping around in the Edit window, in this tutorial I explain how to make and move Edit selections using key commands, tab and tab to transient. Before we can really dig into editing, you must know how to make a selection fit to edit, and this overview is a great place to learn some new techniques and dust off some of the modifiers used to manipulate the Edit selection.
There's a terrific article in Mix Magazine called "Locked and Loaded" about the making of the video game Halo 3. Pro Tools was used for the entire audio portion of the game. The audio in this game MAKES the game. How Pro Tools was used to pull this off is just incredible. Pro Tools is quickly becoming the standard in audio for major game development. One more place to use your skills! Trailer of the game below.
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Here’s an interesting video with Steve Vai talking about beat detective in Pro Tools.
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Something to consider when using beat detective ...
First understand its primary function with Bar/Beat marker generation then the general logic will fall into place. It’s based on selections and counting.
Tempo mapping is very helpful when using Pro Tools. You can either use identify beat or beat detective. The algorithm for identify beat is built into beat detective...When you are doing this with beat detective just remember it's based on your selection and counting...Suggestively speaking, do these selections in 4, 8, or 16 bar sections...(use the kick drum track for selections)
Trying to map an entire song can be tedious work but worth it. After you have your selection intact, count it and make sure your selection is correct. Then put beat detective in Bar/Beat marker generation mode. Capture your selection then analyze your selection... after this then move the sensitivity slider until the desired beat triggers find what would be a bar or beat. (Hint:65% works for everything) After this then click Generate... Now continue this for the remainder of the tune...
If you're going to use identify beat, it’s also based on your selection, so start out by making a 4, 8, 16 bar selection. Now go to the EVENT menu and find identify beat.... when the dialogue comes up type in your start and end times and you’re done. Continue this process if you have changing tempos in your performance....sometimes using identify beat is easier but for more complex drumming use beat detective.
Now a question I get a lot is why when and where...
For most scenarios I use identify beat; however, for preserving the natural tempo changes of a performance I use beat detective. It’s really a combination of the two instead of one or the other.
Just remember it's totally based on your selection and counting. As long as you manually select a selection then these tools will conform the grid ruler to the tempo of your recorded information.
I don't know about you but it seems every time I pull up a "Rhodes" patch on a synth I get some cheesy FM style electric piano sound that is nowhere near what my old suitcase from 1973 sounded like or felt like. Well those days are gone.
If you haven't tried Digi's new "Velvet" RTAS virtual instrument plug-in then you are in for a treat. If you are looking for vintage Rhodes and Wurlitzer piano sounds then this plug-in is it (and the built in echo-plex and wah are way cool). But don't take my word for it, click on the 2 videos below to check it out.
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Better yet just get one. You won't be disappointed. (And no, I don't get a commission!)
Pro Tools 7.3 brings out quite a few new features for the music-based Pro Tools operator.
Of particular interest to me is the export MIDI to Sibelius function. Sibelius is an advanced music notation program for printing sheet music. There’s also new user-programmable window sets, Key Signature Ruler, a new Dynamic transport, and new looping functions. Below are a bunch of cool videos on the new feature of version 7.3.
Definitely worth watching:
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