Re: An informal Podcast regarding Pro Tools.
Thank you much for the podcast, I found it very informative. I have a question though, does any one know any thing about PT accessibility on a windows PC? thanks much Jake - Original Message - From: "Kevin Reeves" To: Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 11:35 PM Subject: An informal Podcast regarding Pro Tools. Hey folks. While cleaning my apartment at 4 in the morning, I turned on the iPod and did about an hour or so worth of stream of consciousness chatting regarding Pro Tools. I go through it's back story on how we got where we are now, and tried to answer the 2 main questions that everyone's posing right now. 1. How accessible is it, ie, what can I do with it. 2. How much better or worse is it than Sonar. I think that a tutorial is important, but like everyone else, the time it takes is really daunting. So, for now, I'm gonna throw up some really informal things just to get some dialog started. Maybe I'll even do some quick recording of me working on a session so that folks can get an idea of how Pro Tools operates in a real world situation. This might be better than trying to plan out a huge tutorial. At least this would give potential switchers a chance to hear it in action, allow me to discuss what I'm doing while I'm doing it, and be able to see what I'm able to accomplish. But for now, enjoy this discussion. It will be appearing on Blind Cool Tech soon. I've uploaded it to their servers. http://kevinreeves.net/InformalProToolsTalk.mp3. Thanks so much, and I hope this sort of sheds some light for folks who have not yet made the decision to get a rig. Kevin=
Re: An informal Podcast regarding Pro Tools.
Hey Jake. Pro Tools is not accessible with Windows screenreaders.
BFD drumkit
Hi list, has anyone tried bfd 2 by fx expansion by any chance? I see it's got extensive support for the akai mpd series , one of which i have. THere's something which seems commonly lacking in all DAWs and accessibility, a good drum kit module with notational capacities. Wherever i go right now, i get this brick wall. Garage band, logic, now somewhat pro tools though its related to a lack of experience. Hoping i can find a workaround to start creating my ambients and electro beats. cheers Yuma
Re: Structure Free first Audition!
Hi I think the installer on that pt 8. disc for: Structure Free ": is messed up. After 2 hours of tech support with sweetwater sweetcare trying to get : Structure Free installed the tech gave up and got me a free 1 time tech support with Avid. It took the Avid tech over a period of 2 weeks of pt crashing when trying to use : Structure Free to get it straight. After 2 digi deliveries of the : Structure Free The first one was the wrong Structure Free from the tech. we finally got it working last friday. You need sighted assistance currently unless you use "quickkeys" to get to the : Structure Free patches. So far the patches sound good! there are only 63 patches included with : Structure Free! LOL talk soon On Mar 20, 2011, at 1:48 AM, J. R. Westmoreland wrote: I have a disc I haven't downloaded from Avid yet. I will download that one and see if it is there. I like Kevin have looked through the disks received in the package and the closest thing I find is stuff in the third party folder in the additional content folder. The other disk is the PT Loops disk. The third one is the how-to video/tutorial. J. R. -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Reeves Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 7:27 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Structure Free first Audition! I'm still confused at where the structure sounds are located on the DVD's. I know they don't exist on 9, but I do have the DVD's for 8. If anyone can give me a path, that would be fantastic. For all I know, I don't have any of these sounds. Kevin On Mar 19, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Chuck Reichel wrote: Hi list, I just got the first batch of "Structure Free" patches saved with sighted help of course! I only have listened to the first 24 so far and Structure Free has wet my whistle for the full Structure! So far patches are slam-men! slam-men! enough that I have 2 new songs started with Structure! "YAMV" Talk soon Chuck Reichel 954-742-0019 www.SoundPictureRecording.com Chuck Reichel 954-742-0019 www.SoundPictureRecording.com
Re: Alternative way to get tracks selected with out a controller.// Dragging tracks in the track table.
Hi Slau, If you read the whole first couple of post this was in mind! You don't need to use this method if you get that vertical splitter moved over to the right. It all becomes available when this is done. Lets help each other get a work floe going! "YWFMV" On Mar 20, 2011, at 12:17 AM, Slau Halatyn wrote: Chuck, Moving tracks has nothing to do with moving an insertion point. Why are you bringing this up in this thread? Slau On Mar 19, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Chuck Reichel wrote: Hi Slau, Have you tried to drag and drop tracks to re order them in the new PT while in the tracks table? If you don't move the vertical splitter over to the right about 30% you can not drag or use command click to select meltable tracks. Of course you need sighted assistance to use the mouse to click and drag the vertical splitter over to the right! Thats why my templates all have the vertical splitter for the tracks table moved 30% % to the right to make the visual and the other basic track moving stuff available in every session i do from my templates. talk soon "YTMMV" Your mouse may beri! LOL On Mar 19, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote: Chuck, the track table has nothing to do with extending the selection while the edit follows track selection. On Mar 19, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Chuck Reichel wrote: Hi Frank, The command shift works fine when you have your tracks table spread out to the right by using the vertical splitter. When it is moved to the right with the vertical splitter dragging tracks and selection is very easy. Talk soon On Mar 19, 2011, at 6:53 PM, Frank Crackle wrote: Hey Slau What we have been looking for is a way to do multiple selection. The shift modifier, I am assuming, allows us to do this with out a control surface. HTH --FC On Mar 19, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote: Guys, this is how Pro Tools worked since version 5. How did you extend selections between multiple tracks before? I don't understand what the "discovery" is. This is not new, except if you simply didn't know it before but then it begs the question I asked above. Slau On Mar 19, 2011, at 6:30 PM, Kevin Reeves wrote: Yep. Totally works here. Why didn't I think of that earlier. You're brilliant. On Mar 19, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Chuck Reichel wrote: Hi Listers, You may find this interesting. I came across this when I was in a session & the mix window had not had the tracks table vertical splitter moved to the right 30%. As long as the tracks are showing you can use "control ;" and or "control shift ;" to move the track selection down in the tracks. You can also use "control shift p " to move up maintaining the selection of the track you started on. This makes it easy to select any tracks that are showing in the session. These track selections are reflected "shown" in the tracks table. I discovered this when moving a selection from 1 track to another in the mix window. talk soon Chuck Reichel 954-742-0019 www.SoundPictureRecording.com Chuck Reichel 954-742-0019 www.SoundPictureRecording.com Chuck Reichel 954-742-0019 www.SoundPictureRecording.com Chuck Reichel 954-742-0019 www.SoundPictureRecording.com
Re: Structure Free first Audition!
Ok. I found my structure sounds. When I re-installed my Pro Tools 8 disk before upgrading to 9, it automagically appeared. We're good to go. Looking forward to hearing these sounds once the presets get resaved. On Mar 20, 2011, at 12:48 AM, J. R. Westmoreland wrote: > I have a disc I haven't downloaded from Avid yet. I will download that one > and see if it is there. > I like Kevin have looked through the disks received in the package and the > closest thing I find is stuff in the third party folder in the additional > content folder. > The other disk is the PT Loops disk. The third one is the how-to > video/tutorial. > > J. R. > > > -Original Message- > From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Kevin Reeves > Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 7:27 PM > To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Structure Free first Audition! > > I'm still confused at where the structure sounds are located on the DVD's. I > know they don't exist on 9, but I do have the DVD's for 8. If anyone can > give me a path, that would be fantastic. For all I know, I don't have any of > these sounds. > > Kevin > On Mar 19, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Chuck Reichel wrote: > >> Hi list, >> I just got the first batch of "Structure Free" patches saved with sighted > help of course! >> I only have listened to the first 24 so far and Structure Free has wet my > whistle for the full Structure! >> So far patches are slam-men! >> slam-men! enough that I have 2 new songs started with Structure! >> >> "YAMV" >> Talk soon >> Chuck Reichel >> 954-742-0019 >> www.SoundPictureRecording.com >> >> >> > >
Re: Structure Free first Audition!
Hi Kevin, Give me a call and we will figure out the presets that i already have. On Mar 20, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Kevin Reeves wrote: Ok. I found my structure sounds. When I re-installed my Pro Tools 8 disk before upgrading to 9, it automagically appeared. We're good to go. Looking forward to hearing these sounds once the presets get resaved. On Mar 20, 2011, at 12:48 AM, J. R. Westmoreland wrote: I have a disc I haven't downloaded from Avid yet. I will download that one and see if it is there. I like Kevin have looked through the disks received in the package and the closest thing I find is stuff in the third party folder in the additional content folder. The other disk is the PT Loops disk. The third one is the how-to video/tutorial. J. R. -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Reeves Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 7:27 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Structure Free first Audition! I'm still confused at where the structure sounds are located on the DVD's. I know they don't exist on 9, but I do have the DVD's for 8. If anyone can give me a path, that would be fantastic. For all I know, I don't have any of these sounds. Kevin On Mar 19, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Chuck Reichel wrote: Hi list, I just got the first batch of "Structure Free" patches saved with sighted help of course! I only have listened to the first 24 so far and Structure Free has wet my whistle for the full Structure! So far patches are slam-men! slam-men! enough that I have 2 new songs started with Structure! "YAMV" Talk soon Chuck Reichel 954-742-0019 www.SoundPictureRecording.com Chuck Reichel 954-742-0019 www.SoundPictureRecording.com
Re: Alternative way to get tracks selected with out a controller.// Dragging tracks in the track table.
Hey Chuck, I read pretty much every single post here. OK, as clearly as you can, tell me precisely what is not available if one does not move the vertical splitter. I'm all for helping each other but I do think things need to be perfectly clear in order for us all to be on the same page. Again, just to be perfectly clear on my end, I maintain that, with "Link Track and Edit Selection" checked under the Options menu, one can extend the insertion point through multiple tracks and the extension of the insertion cursor has been supported in Pro Tools since version 5. The Linking of Track and Edit Selection has been supported since at least version 8 if not sooner. I've pasted your original post below: > I came across this when I was in a session & the mix window had not had the > tracks table vertical splitter moved to the right 30%. > As long as the tracks are showing you can use "control ;" and or "control > shift ;" to move the track selection down in the tracks. > You can also use "control shift p " to move up maintaining the selection of > the track you started on. > This makes it easy to select any tracks that are showing in the session. > These track selections are reflected "shown" in the tracks table. > I discovered this when moving a selection from 1 track to another in the mix > window. 'chuck, first of all, what does moving the insertion point have to do with your having moved the vertical splitter? I now see, thanks to Frank, that this was essentially a continuation of a discussion on selecting tracks without a control surface that was started on a conference call. Your subject makes mention of control surface but your message doesn't. For those of us who can't always attend the conference calls, it might be helpful to say, within the body of the message, something like, "for those without a control surface, an alternate means of selecting tracks is to Make sure 'Link Track and Edit selection' is checked under the Options menu and use the Control-semicolon and Control-p commands to move the insertion point from track to track and using the shift modifier to extend the selection." That, at least to anyone reading the message, would be pretty clear. Lastly, I still don't understand what the "discovery" is. Were you simply not aware of this until recently? Well then, that would explain your message. However, it would be kind of surprising since we've mentioned this very idea of moving the insertion while track and edit selection are linked several times on the list. Perhaps you missed those messages. Our mileages clearly vary, eh? Best, Slau On Mar 20, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Chuck Reichel wrote: > Hi Slau, > If you read the whole first couple of post this was in mind! > You don't need to use this method if you get that vertical splitter moved > over to the right. > It all becomes available when this is done. > Lets help each other get a work floe going! > > "YWFMV" > > On Mar 20, 2011, at 12:17 AM, Slau Halatyn wrote: > >> Chuck, >> >> Moving tracks has nothing to do with moving an insertion point. Why are you >> bringing this up in this thread? >> >> Slau >> >> On Mar 19, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Chuck Reichel wrote: >> >>> Hi Slau, >>> Have you tried to drag and drop tracks to re order them in the new PT while >>> in the tracks table? >>> >>> If you don't move the vertical splitter over to the right about 30% you can >>> not drag or use command click to select meltable tracks. >>> Of course you need sighted assistance to use the mouse to click and drag >>> the vertical splitter over to the right! >>> Thats why my templates all have the vertical splitter for the tracks table >>> moved 30% % to the right to make the visual and the other basic track >>> moving stuff available in every session i do from my templates. >>> talk soon >>> "YTMMV" >>> Your mouse may beri! LOL >>> >>> On Mar 19, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote: >>> Chuck, the track table has nothing to do with extending the selection while the edit follows track selection. On Mar 19, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Chuck Reichel wrote: > Hi Frank, > The command shift works fine when you have your tracks table spread out > to the right by using the vertical splitter. > When it is moved to the right with the vertical splitter dragging tracks > and selection is very easy. > Talk soon > > On Mar 19, 2011, at 6:53 PM, Frank Crackle wrote: > >> Hey Slau >> >> What we have been looking for is a way to do multiple selection. The >> shift modifier, I am assuming, allows us to do this with out a control >> surface. >> >> HTH >> --FC >> >> On Mar 19, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote: >> >>> Guys, this is how Pro Tools worked since version 5. How did you extend >>> selections between multiple tracks before? I don't understand what the >>> "discovery" is. This is not new, except if y
Re: An informal Podcast regarding Pro Tools.
You meen at all right? thanks had to ask. - Original Message - From: "Kevin Reeves" To: Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 12:56 AM Subject: Re: An informal Podcast regarding Pro Tools. Hey Jake. Pro Tools is not accessible with Windows screenreaders.
