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When you are recording, you may want to capture a variety of takes for a certain section of music. By looping a designated section of your session, you can record take after take without needing to stop and start over. Loop Recording is a useful option for quickly recording multiple takes over a section without losing spontaneity.

A vital tool in the production process is MIDI, with it's ability to compose, arrange, and edit musical performances. Whether using Virtual Instruments, or Hardware Synthesizers, one common thing that needs to be done is to Record the sound of these synthesizers as Audio Tracks. Let's take a look at different ways you can do this in Pro Tools.

When editing in Pro Tools, you will often come across audio clips that have large portions of silence (or near-silence) that you want to quickly edit and remove. Using Strip Silence you can quickly edit across an entire selection, removing the need for multiple manual edits, and speeding up your workflow.

When working with large Pro Tools sessions, you may find yourself constantly flipping through various windows as you mix and edit. As you work with these sessions, you may want to  quickly recall specific windows during different aspects of your workflow. Window Configurations are used for this exact purpose.

Different types of Pro Tools projects often require different ways of moving and editing your audio material. In this article, we’re going to look at the 4 main editing modes in Pro Tools-”how to toggle between then, what they do, and the types of projects they are generally used for.

To be the most effective producer or engineer possible, you need to have an organizational system that will allow you to navigate your ProTools session quickly and efficiently. ProTools has many built-in options to help you organize your tracks and timeline in a logical way. This tutorial will show you some tips on how to best organize your sessions.

Time-based signal processors, such as reverb and delay, are essential when creating a full stereo mix. Although they are commonplace in every DAW on the market, reverbs and delays require a lot of processing power. So, how do we give each instrument these time effects without overloading our CPU? We can achieve this by utilizing Auxiliary Sends during the mixing process.

In this video tutorial by Avid Instructor Mihai Boloni, we show you how easy it is to save your own plugin settings in Pro Tools. We will show you how Pro Tools handles the management of plugin settings, how to create and save your own, and have Pro Tools default to your settings.

Learn how to create that EDM Pumping Effect in Pro Tools. Side-chaining and sidechain compression is a technique that lets you use an external signal to trigger dynamics, EQ, or other effects on a track. Examples include compressing a bass to cut through each time the kick drum hits which creates that classic EDM pumping effect, to auto-ducking a music bed that interferes with spoken dialogue.