Glad to hear you got through it and lived. Speak soon, Slau On Apr 21, 2015, at 7:01 PM, Brian@Wavefield Recordings <br...@wavefieldrecordings.com> wrote:
> Hey Slau, > > Thanks for the response, yeah the track list table always seems to > come after the tracks in the mix window for me..I fiddled with a few > things today and low and behold all meters are showing, and its a > fairly busy template I have for my analog desk with circa 30 tracks. > > Got through tracking 4 songs wwith a 3 piece band today so heres to > jumping in the deep end. > > Still none the wiser about the exact reason for certain things that > happen with Voice Over in Protools but I get the impression that might > be something I'll have to get used to for the time being. > > I did run into a problem trying to playback the session after > recording today but it was down to the input only monitoring mode I > had accidentally selected, or at least that seemed to be it. > > I've yet to dive into editing and mixing really but a brief encounter > with the trim plug-in to reverse polarity on a track today didn't go > well, for some reason the polarity would only change during playback, > and then when I stopped and hit play again the parameter reverted back > to its default state...the same thing happened with a gate plug-in I > quickly tried out on a snare track, I adjusted all parameters from > the keyboard while listening to the audio and then when I closed the > window and went off to do something else it went back to the default > setting that were there when I first incerted the plug. > > I'm sure its something to do with an automation mode or something. > > Sorry for going off topic but its been a long, testing but successful > day in studio. > > Brian. > > On 4/21/15, Slau Halatyn <slauhala...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Brian, >> >> Well, you've sure chosen to dive in at the deep end, eh? No pressure ;) >> >> It's odd that you would have seen the tracks list table after all of your >> tracks. I've never seen that behavior. To be clear, though, you are, in >> fact, seeing the tracks list table in the Mix window? Under the view menu, >> you can show or hide the tracks list table. I'm not at the studio so I'm not >> 100% sure but I believe it's under the Other Displays menu. If you're seeing >> any tracks in the Mix window, that would suggest that they're being shown >> and, unless you have something on the order of 24 tracks, pretty much all of >> them should be visible and displaying correctly. Make sure you don't have >> the "narrow mix window" displayed (under the view menu). I don't know what >> else to tell you on such short notice. Yeah, good thing you know your >> preamps and, as long as you're recording at 24 bits, you have loads of >> headroom. Even at your most conservative, you should be fine. >> >> Slau >> >> On Apr 20, 2015, at 10:58 PM, CaseyBrian Casey >> <br...@wavefieldrecordings.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, I've just jumped on the PT band waggon, and am all ready to go >>> tracking my first session in studio, but meter reading issues have come >>> out of no where, leading me to be very much less prepared than I had >>> thought. >>> >>> The catch may well be that I'm using PT 12 on osx 10.10 so if someone has >>> that around and can chime in I'd really appreciate it. I didn't know any >>> means of sticking to PT 11 on the subscription plan I have so thought 12 >>> should be fairly consistent in terms of its behaviour with Voice over. >>> >>> I was reading peaks just fine before but can't get any consistent >>> behaviour now with the tips in this thread or any combination of hiding >>> and unhiding tracks. Luckily I know my pre-amps ok and should be able to >>> track without input metering for tomorrows session, but I'll probably get >>> some strange looks from some observing musician at some stage when I >>> record super low accidentally or something. >>> >>> I'm not sure if it is something that has changed in PT 12 but I don't >>> seem to be getting a pop up list button for the track list in the mix >>> window, I have a track list table and a group list table. From using PT >>> ages ago on version 8 and listen to the PT with speech tutorials I seem to >>> be under the impression there was a pop up button somewhere for a track >>> list. >>> >>> When I am VO and right arrowing over from the close button of the mix >>> window, the track list table and other bits and pieces come after all the >>> tracks in my session. >>> >>> No amount of paging up or down and such has seemed to have solved this for >>> me and even shrinking down the session to only showing 4 or so tracks >>> doesn't allow me to read meters on all 4 tracks, just a couple. >>> >>> Voice Over does speak that there is a level meter, just not a value for >>> it. >>> >>> Also when trying to option click or command click stuff I'm not getting >>> any real luck after routing the mouse to the Voice Over curser, but I'm >>> new to all this, so there are probably any number of ways I'm shooting >>> myself in the foot. >>> >>> Any quick feedback is much appreciated. >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 11:16:58 PM UTC+1, Slau Halatyn wrote: >>> For a few years, I've been using the newer versions of Pro Tools but only >>> began using the latest version at the studio as of this year. Having spent >>> more time with PT 11 on a day-to-day basis, I've come to notice something >>> that didn't occur to me earlier. I've never seen mention of it on the list >>> although the general subject has come up. I have not, however, seen any >>> posts offering the following explanation. For what it's worth, here it is: >>> >>> >>> As, I'm sure, many of you have noticed, tracks sometimes appear, for lack >>> of a better way of saying it, "to the left" of the Tracks List pop-up >>> button (erroneously labeled, "Show/Hide label.") When interacting with >>> those tracks, VoiceOver does see all of the elements and one can certainly >>> interact with controls and change input paths, etc. However, when trying >>> to perform actions that involve routing the mouse pointer and doing a >>> modified click, things don't work as expected. Actually, they don't work >>> at all. The reason is that, when the tracks appear to be to the left of >>> that pop-up button, they're actually not visible on screen and therefore >>> cannot be accessed by the mouse pointer. Scrolling into view has certainly >>> been suggested on the list as well as showing only the tracks in question. >>> That's all good but an alternative is to simply page up or, even quicker, >>> use the bank select on a control surface to expose the left-most tracks >>> or, conversely, the right-most bank if that's what you need. >>> >>> This is one of those things that has come up on the list a few times but >>> I've never seen this particular observation. Regardless, putting it out >>> there. >>> >>> Slau >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ptaccess/s1ZJFXGaElE/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. 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