Hi,
Thanks for the insights. I'm about half tempted to just start saving and
buying a copy for myself... which leads me to another question.. If I were
to get a mac book pro, with the I7, and 8GB of ram, would it be powerful
enough to be a Sirius DAW? What kind of setups are you all using? Just so
I
can get some insight.
Thanks so much!!!
Chris Harrington
-----Original Message-----
From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptacc...@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf
Of Brian Casey
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 6:11 PM
To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: PT accessibility in a school setting?
Hi Chris,
Like Slau, I'd like to welcome you to the list. I'm not actually
particularly useful on this list for help or anything, as I too am really
new to ProTools, and have only really had my hands on it for small amounts
of time over the last few weeks.
However, I'm studying a masters course in music and technology, and have
had
to work with people in my school to sort through accessability. The best
thing you can do is be patient, and read everything thats posted on this
list. Secondly, if your not used to using an apple mac, boot one up, press
command and F5 and start learning voice over inside and out. That will
help
you immeasurably whenever you actually get your hands on an accessible
version of ProTools.
Next, there's no reason as Slau said that your teachers won't want to
update
to ProTools 8.0.4. I had problems getting my school to update, but we have
alot of machines, so they upgraded the image on one to 8.0.4 first, but
now
even the main studio computer is updated for me.
Now, in group situations, I can kind of see why it would be likely that
the
teacher won't want you opporating the computer over a sighted student. For
the purposes of teaching, you will have to do certain tings a bit
differently, and if your not familiar with the mac and ProTools, your at a
disadvantage learning innitially.
There's no excuse for them not sorting you out with a work station to get
familiar with everything though, and if you can, take every second you can
get on the system to learn. I've very little time with other course work
myself, and ProTools is only a small part of what I'm studying, but the
progress I have been having with minimal experimentation so far is very
encouraging. It also helps to know that there loads of people on this list
who have been using ProTools for years and others not nearly so long who
are
doing great work with the system.
So in short, I'm not much use to you, but be patient with your teachers
but
keep pushing for the update, and in the mean time read as much as you can
about ProTools, and recording in general, get familiar with Voice Over on
the mac if you aren't already and everything is sure to come together.
Its also usually a good idea to get the others in the class on your side,
if
they understand and see the need for updating ProTools they'll put
pressure
on the powers that be to update also. They might also be open to sitting
down with you to explain things they are learning etc, just so your not
sitting there while everybody else is gazing at a curser on a screen.
Best of luck anyway,
Cheers,
Brian.
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From: "Chris Harrington" <charringt...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:15 PM
To: <ptaccess@googlegroups.com>
Subject: PT accessibility in a school setting?
Hi,
My name is Chris Harrington, and I'm brand new to the list, and to
protools.
I've never actually used it before, so I have some questions about it...
How much can you do with protools? Can you do automation, audio, midi,
different plugins, things like that? Also, I'm doing a career center
program for audio production, and they're using PT8. I've been trying
to get them to use 8.1, but my teacher doesn't seem to want to go
through the process of updating. I feel that is unfair to me, because
it feels like all I'm there for is to give people musical substance
for their projects if that makes any sense... I play all the music,
while they're doing everything in Protools.
It's really aggravating and I'm considering dropping the course... I
don't want to take it out on my teacher, he's tried working with me to
make sure I get some of the substance, but it's just really pissing me
off that all I can do is pretty much sit their when the music's done,
and wait for them to edit. Then if they do something wrong, then I
want to fix it but can't...
lol.
OK, I'm done ranting, any insights you all can give would be great!!!
Thank you!!!
Chris Harrington
http://www.c-harrington.com
