Thanks Nate, yeah Protools is becoming fun already, really liking the editing and punching features etc. Never really got my head around that side of it when I gave it a go when 8.0.4 came out.
On 4/22/15, Poppa Bear <heavens4r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Bryan, FYI, to toggle on and off Input monitoring it is Option K. If you > want to be able to monitor a client without having to press record while a > track is playing then you would use this. > Glad that you made the jump back to PT. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Slau Halatyn > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 3:04 PM > To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: an observation about the Mix window > > 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. > 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. 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