Re: Please help me with documentation

[Poppa Bear]

I put them on the same track quite often, I just adjust the input gain on 
one or the other to adjust the amount of each affect going to the bus or 
track. Not sure how it works in PT, but you can genraly creat a sub bus as 
well to rout say your main reverb bus through, and on the sub bus you would 
put your delay. On most daws, it is a matter of a half dozen clicks to do a 
thing like that.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Norman" <chris.norm...@googlemail.com>
To: <ptaccess@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: Please help me with documentation

Picture this:
You have your three singers from your previous example. You've eq'd
each track, so they sound fine on their own, but you think "Wow, I'd
love to add reverb and delay". If you put both reverb and delay onto
each track, it'll take up a fair few resources, and you may get some
odities, because either the reverb will reverberate the delay sound,
or vice verser. So, you create an Aux send, which you put reverb on.
Then you could send all the tracks you want the reverb on, to that 1
track, then you could send another to another channel with delay on.
This keeps everything isolated, and means if you decide you
particularly love your reverb sound, you don't need to chuck the same
settings on multiple tracks.

Also, if you had the hardware, you could use an AUX send for a monitor
feed, which you could then send to your headphones, or a line of
monitors or something.

HTH

On 30/03/2012, Steve Martin <monkeypushe...@gmail.com> wrote:
I will say this much. your basic understanding of it is on the right 
track.
On Mar 29, 2012, at 10:00 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland"
<clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't even know what they do on a regular board.

Thank you though for your help.

I'll go have a read and see what I can come up with.

Chris.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Slau Halatyn" 
<slauhala...@gmail.com>
To: <ptaccess@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: Please help me with documentation


Hi Chris,

Find the document called "Intro to Pro Tools." I'm using Snow Leopard 
and
it's in the following directory:
Macintosh HD>Applications>Digidesign>Documentation>Pro tools.
Open the file and do a search for "aux," in other words, type Command-f
and do a standard search. You should get about 4 results. Move to the
Outline area and navigate to the second entry. Stop interacting with the
Outline and move to the left. You'll find a description of auxiliary
inputs.

Auxiliary inputs are just like any auxiliary inputs on an analog console
but they're more versatile because they can instantly take their source
from a bus. Hopefully this will get you started.

Slau

On Mar 29, 2012, at 9:24 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:

I don't expect you all to help me much until I've done a thorough read 
on
this topic, and frankly, that's fair.  I'll come back when I have red 
and
need things more clarified, but can someone show me on my Pro tools DVD
where in the documentation I need to go to read up on what an auxiliary
track is?  I'm just not getting the whole concept of a aux, a send,
receive, and a bus is?

I kind a get it, but not really.  Here's what I'd say in my own words.
Maybe you all can help me.  If I want help here, I need to not just say 
I
think I get something a move on.  How can you all help me, if I don't 
at
least work with you all and try!?

So, my understanding, with that in mind, of an aux track or is that my
first misatke right there, it's not a track, it's a send?  Anyway, is,
it's used for routing certain tracks, be them audio, or midi through
another empty track which is specifically used more for global
processwing?  So like, if I had say, a  music track, then I had 3 
singers
that came in my studio to dubb their vocals...  Rather than taking say,
both the females, and processing them the same exact way on various
inserts individually, I could route them through an AUX track, then go
down to that AUX track and on insert A, I may add some say... oh... I
dono, let's just for sake, sake compression dynamics.  Now, because 
they
are both routed to that AUX track, the effects now are gonna be applied
to both the female tracks at the same time.

Am I getting this correctly, or, honestly, no? Not exactly.

You're looking at me I'm sure saying, no, not even close.  Chris, you
need to go read.  I know I do!  I'm willing!  Just please tell me what
file to bring up, and how within that file to search and find the 
section
I need to read.

I'll be using Preview within Snow Leopard to access the pdf files.

Thank you.

Chris.





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Chris Norman.

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