Solo Safe
Hey all! Anyone tell me how to solo safe with key commands? Cheers Eric
Re: Solo Safe
Hi Eric, find the solo for that track and move mouse there and command click using your mouse for the click. Talk soon On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Eric Lambier wrote: Hey all! Anyone tell me how to solo safe with key commands? Cheers Eric
Re: Protools busy and interacting?
Hi John, You half to resize your Track List Table At this point you need sighted assistance but after you drag the Track List Table over to the right about 30 % every thing works. Just like Outspoken! ;) I work from several templates with this done and wow is it quick! :) Chuck On Feb 28, 2012, at 12:49 PM, John Boral wrote: Hey all, I just read something that said you don't have to interact in order to select tracks. That's not working for me in PT HD9. If I use VO space on a track in either the mix or edit window I get nothing but the error beep. I can select tracks by interacting but it does take much longer. I do have both link edit and scroll checked in options. The biggest problem now is PT saying Protools busy and never stopping. Usually when I get to around 20 or 30 minutes of using PT it says Protools busy and won't stop. I have to force quit and restart the entire machine to get it back.
Re: Protools busy and interacting?
Hi Slau, yes, the control P is cool for moving back or forth but I'm trying to get to all different tracks quickly which aren't in order and select them. I know option command f will let you type the track # but I like to go by name. In a live situation where you're not familiar with the band's stuff it's common for another engineer in a club to throw track names at you which are mostly generic, kick, snare etc. So, as you know with PT 5 we could quickly find a track name using outspoken #1 and select it. I read in this group that you could just VO space on the track without interacting but that's not working for me. Is the VO find option like the outspoken find? Also, any ideas on the busy part where it says Protools busy until you have to force quit? In live venues I can't use a control desk but I have a motor mix I'm hoping to use in a private setting. Do you know if that works well with this new setup?
Re: Protools busy and interacting?
Hi John, even with version 5 and outSPOKEN, you have to move the insertion point in order to edit. You might find the Item Chooser helpful. Control-Option-i brings up a list of items that you can narrow by typing the first few letters of what you're looking for. If you get into large sessions, it can take a few seconds to compile a list of hundreds of items but, usually it's quick enough. If you're just editing, you can choose to hide unnecessary items under the Display menu and that should speed things up a bit. I've never had trouble with Pro Tools being busy. HTH, Slau On Feb 28, 2012, at 3:23 PM, John Boral wrote: Hi Slau, yes, the control P is cool for moving back or forth but I'm trying to get to all different tracks quickly which aren't in order and select them. I know option command f will let you type the track # but I like to go by name. In a live situation where you're not familiar with the band's stuff it's common for another engineer in a club to throw track names at you which are mostly generic, kick, snare etc. So, as you know with PT 5 we could quickly find a track name using outspoken #1 and select it. I read in this group that you could just VO space on the track without interacting but that's not working for me. Is the VO find option like the outspoken find? Also, any ideas on the busy part where it says Protools busy until you have to force quit? In live venues I can't use a control desk but I have a motor mix I'm hoping to use in a private setting. Do you know if that works well with this new setup?
Authorising Pro Tools
Hi, I really can't believe I've had ProTools now for 5 months and still haven't got it authorised yet. I havne' really put much effort into resolving the issue but I've decided that I really need to get it sorted. I installed it successfully and updated it fine in order to use it on Lion. It came with an Ilok that is apparently authorised. But when I attempt to authorise using the Liscnce card option it fails and says that there is no license on the ILok. I have to the best of my knowledge installed the Ilok software. I have not registered this particular ILok because there was nothing in the manual about having to do anything. I already use an Ilok for Ivory and was hoping to be able to download a licence on to that but the manual suggests that I need to use the authorised ILok. Incidentally if I try to authorise with the alternative option to the license card option I get something called a challenge which is a series of random words. Goodness knows what that's all about. Any ideas?
Re: Solo Safe
Chuck, I found that if you swipe your finger lightly from right, to left across the magic mouse, it moves the view over and put the items in their proper places. Don't move the mouse, just swipe across the clicker from right, to left. Sean - Original Message - From: CHUCK REICHEL To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:40 PM Subject: Re: Solo Safe Hi I'm not sure about solo safeing any other way! But there might be? any body else? VO space bar ONLY works for me after you resize the Track List Table in the mix window. I must say again you should move the Track List Table 30% over to the right so the track names are more visually exposed for all the PT commands to work in the Track List Table. You need sighted assistance to grab the gray bar located at the top right of the Track List Table! Thats why i use pt templates with this already done! YMMV Chuck On Feb 28, 2012, at 3:29 PM, John Boral wrote: Hi Chuck, is there any way of solo safe toggle without the mouse? Also, you posted that you were able to select tracks without interaction by VO space on the actual track. Is that still working for you, not working with PT HD9.
Re: Solo Safe
Hi again Chuck, thanks much for the tip. Can you just step me through anything I'd have to tell a sighted person about? Is this something a girlfriend can do or does it have to be someone who knows about how tracks look. Can I just tell her to look for the gray bar at the right corner and drag it a little bit? Any non-engineer suggestions for a normal person to do this would be appreciated. Yes, I'll save it once I have it. I assume it's the same way as in the old version whereby you use the get info and check stationary pad or is it different these days? One more question off topic, is there a good MP3 converter that's super quick and easy without bells and whistles? Many times I have to convert wav to MP3 and back and I don't know what the best way of doing that with VO is. I'm currently using a PC for that because I was using SoundJam on the Mac but it can't convert anything 24 bit.
Re: Solo Safe
And this is the magic mouse, an not the magic track pad? On 2/28/12, Sean A. Cummins seanacumm...@gmail.com wrote: Chuck, I found that if you swipe your finger lightly from right, to left across the magic mouse, it moves the view over and put the items in their proper places. Don't move the mouse, just swipe across the clicker from right, to left. Sean - Original Message - From: CHUCK REICHEL To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:40 PM Subject: Re: Solo Safe Hi I'm not sure about solo safeing any other way! But there might be? any body else? VO space bar ONLY works for me after you resize the Track List Table in the mix window. I must say again you should move the Track List Table 30% over to the right so the track names are more visually exposed for all the PT commands to work in the Track List Table. You need sighted assistance to grab the gray bar located at the top right of the Track List Table! Thats why i use pt templates with this already done! YMMV Chuck On Feb 28, 2012, at 3:29 PM, John Boral wrote: Hi Chuck, is there any way of solo safe toggle without the mouse? Also, you posted that you were able to select tracks without interaction by VO space on the actual track. Is that still working for you, not working with PT HD9.
Re: Solo Safe
Hi Sean, Just need a magic mouse i guess! :) Let me get this straight; Your saying this moves the Track List Table? Or do this to solo safe the solo button? Talk soon On Feb 28, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Sean A. Cummins wrote: Chuck, I found that if you swipe your finger lightly from right, to left across the magic mouse, it moves the view over and put the items in their proper places. Don't move the mouse, just swipe across the clicker from right, to left. Sean - Original Message - From: CHUCK REICHEL To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:40 PM Subject: Re: Solo Safe Hi I'm not sure about solo safeing any other way! But there might be? any body else? VO space bar ONLY works for me after you resize the Track List Table in the mix window. I must say again you should move the Track List Table 30% over to the right so the track names are more visually exposed for all the PT commands to work in the Track List Table. You need sighted assistance to grab the gray bar located at the top right of the Track List Table! Thats why i use pt templates with this already done! YMMV Chuck On Feb 28, 2012, at 3:29 PM, John Boral wrote: Hi Chuck, is there any way of solo safe toggle without the mouse? Also, you posted that you were able to select tracks without interaction by VO space on the actual track. Is that still working for you, not working with PT HD9.
Re: Solo Safe
Hi Eric, Use the real mouse. Step #1 find the solo you want to solo safe. Step#2 move the mouse to it just in case. Step #3 hold down the command key. Step #4 while holding down the command click the old mouse! ;) Do the same to unprotect it. YMMV Chuck On Feb 28, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Eric Lambier wrote: Hi there Not sure exactly what you mean. I can find the solo no problem but do you mean use a real mouse? What do you mean by command click? I know that a mouse click is VO shift spacebar. Is that what you mean? Cheers Eric On 2012-02-28, at 2:43 PM, CHUCK REICHEL wrote: Hi Eric, find the solo for that track and move mouse there and command click using your mouse for the click. Talk soon On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Eric Lambier wrote: Hey all! Anyone tell me how to solo safe with key commands? Cheers Eric
Re: Solo Safe
It moves the track list over. Reorganizing the view. Later, Sean - Original Message - From: CHUCK REICHEL To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:13 PM Subject: Re: Solo Safe Hi Sean, Just need a magic mouse i guess! :) Let me get this straight; Your saying this moves the Track List Table? Or do this to solo safe the solo button? Talk soon On Feb 28, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Sean A. Cummins wrote: Chuck, I found that if you swipe your finger lightly from right, to left across the magic mouse, it moves the view over and put the items in their proper places. Don't move the mouse, just swipe across the clicker from right, to left. Sean - Original Message - From: CHUCK REICHEL To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:40 PM Subject: Re: Solo Safe Hi I'm not sure about solo safeing any other way! But there might be? any body else? VO space bar ONLY works for me after you resize the Track List Table in the mix window. I must say again you should move the Track List Table 30% over to the right so the track names are more visually exposed for all the PT commands to work in the Track List Table. You need sighted assistance to grab the gray bar located at the top right of the Track List Table! Thats why i use pt templates with this already done! YMMV Chuck On Feb 28, 2012, at 3:29 PM, John Boral wrote: Hi Chuck, is there any way of solo safe toggle without the mouse? Also, you posted that you were able to select tracks without interaction by VO space on the actual track. Is that still working for you, not working with PT HD9.
Re: Authorising Pro Tools
Hi, If you bought a boxed version of pro tools you don't need an ilok account as the ilok you will have received will have the proper license already on it so you should just be able to plug it in and run pro tools just fine. This is what I did and things are working fine now. You will need someone to help you enter in the serial numbers from the card that came with the boxed version to register it with avid but you only need to do this once and you should receive an email from avid that tells you you registerd the program. Hope this helps. Nick Gawronski On 2/28/2012 2:49 PM, David Eagle wrote: Hi, I really can't believe I've had ProTools now for 5 months and still haven't got it authorised yet. I havne' really put much effort into resolving the issue but I've decided that I really need to get it sorted. I installed it successfully and updated it fine in order to use it on Lion. It came with an Ilok that is apparently authorised. But when I attempt to authorise using the Liscnce card option it fails and says that there is no license on the ILok. I have to the best of my knowledge installed the Ilok software. I have not registered this particular ILok because there was nothing in the manual about having to do anything. I already use an Ilok for Ivory and was hoping to be able to download a licence on to that but the manual suggests that I need to use the authorised ILok. Incidentally if I try to authorise with the alternative option to the license card option I get something called a challenge which is a series of random words. Goodness knows what that's all about. Any ideas?
Re: Solo Safe
Hi John, the gray bar is just outside the Track List Table at the top right. Any body could do it! ;) As for making a Template once you get a PT session configured how you like select Save As Template … from the file menu. Tip before i would do this make a templates folder where Avid stores its templates for future accessibility of your custom templates. There are STILL not accessible parts of the PT app so this makes it faster. As for the mp3 i just use itunes and have it set for mp4 which is a little bit cleaner. YMMV On Feb 28, 2012, at 5:03 PM, John Boral wrote: Hi again Chuck, thanks much for the tip. Can you just step me through anything I'd have to tell a sighted person about? Is this something a girlfriend can do or does it have to be someone who knows about how tracks look. Can I just tell her to look for the gray bar at the right corner and drag it a little bit? Any non-engineer suggestions for a normal person to do this would be appreciated. Yes, I'll save it once I have it. I assume it's the same way as in the old version whereby you use the get info and check stationary pad or is it different these days? One more question off topic, is there a good MP3 converter that's super quick and easy without bells and whistles? Many times I have to convert wav to MP3 and back and I don't know what the best way of doing that with VO is. I'm currently using a PC for that because I was using SoundJam on the Mac but it can't convert anything 24 bit.
Re: Protools busy and interacting?
Thanks Chuck, I'll try the gray bar tonight. Can you tell me if you've ever gotten a Protools Busy message that doesn't stop unless you force quit? I'm getting it often lately. Also, maybe you can help with 2 other things, #1 I frequently get apple menu is under the mouse no matter how things are routed. I believe it's because the VO cursor is in a place that the mouse can't follow. What are the proper commands to fit everything on the screen, somebody talked about a scroll in to view, is that it? #2 Is there something quick that can let you see 1 aspect of many tracks, for example, any way of knowing the status of solo, mute, record, read, write, latch, touch as you move up and down? Like if you have 24 tracks just hitting down arrow in the automation field and hearing off, off, off, read, read, latch, touch etc. Or scrolling down a part that would say, the track name and record on or record off as you go through each track. The way I'm doing it now is interacting with each track and I have to go through each column 1 by 1 to hear the state of where things are.
Re: Authorising Pro Tools
Hi David Nick, May be its the garget note LOL But seriously folks Hook up the ilok with out running pt and go to the ilok site and make sure you see the ilok and look at the licenses for it just to make sure it is cool! :) YMMV Chuck On Feb 28, 2012, at 6:29 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote: Hi, If you bought a boxed version of pro tools you don't need an ilok account as the ilok you will have received will have the proper license already on it so you should just be able to plug it in and run pro tools just fine. This is what I did and things are working fine now. You will need someone to help you enter in the serial numbers from the card that came with the boxed version to register it with avid but you only need to do this once and you should receive an email from avid that tells you you registerd the program. Hope this helps. Nick Gawronski On 2/28/2012 2:49 PM, David Eagle wrote: Hi, I really can't believe I've had ProTools now for 5 months and still haven't got it authorised yet. I havne' really put much effort into resolving the issue but I've decided that I really need to get it sorted. I installed it successfully and updated it fine in order to use it on Lion. It came with an Ilok that is apparently authorised. But when I attempt to authorise using the Liscnce card option it fails and says that there is no license on the ILok. I have to the best of my knowledge installed the Ilok software. I have not registered this particular ILok because there was nothing in the manual about having to do anything. I already use an Ilok for Ivory and was hoping to be able to download a licence on to that but the manual suggests that I need to use the authorised ILok. Incidentally if I try to authorise with the alternative option to the license card option I get something called a challenge which is a series of random words. Goodness knows what that's all about. Any ideas?
Re: Solo Safe
ProTools mp3 converter seems to work fine for me. But then again you guys with bionic hearing may disagree lol On Feb 28, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Sean A. Cummins wrote: Chuck, I found that if you swipe your finger lightly from right, to left across the magic mouse, it moves the view over and put the items in their proper places. Don't move the mouse, just swipe across the clicker from right, to left. Sean - Original Message - From: CHUCK REICHEL To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:40 PM Subject: Re: Solo Safe Hi I'm not sure about solo safeing any other way! But there might be? any body else? VO space bar ONLY works for me after you resize the Track List Table in the mix window. I must say again you should move the Track List Table 30% over to the right so the track names are more visually exposed for all the PT commands to work in the Track List Table. You need sighted assistance to grab the gray bar located at the top right of the Track List Table! Thats why i use pt templates with this already done! YMMV Chuck On Feb 28, 2012, at 3:29 PM, John Boral wrote: Hi Chuck, is there any way of solo safe toggle without the mouse? Also, you posted that you were able to select tracks without interaction by VO space on the actual track. Is that still working for you, not working with PT HD9.
Re: Protools busy and interacting?
Hello, When u use the keyboard to put the cursor where u want it. Do VO+Command+F5 to move the mouse to where the VO cursor is. VO+F5 will comfirm if the mouse has been moved there. theyn you should be able to VO+shift+space to do a mouse click with the keyboard, or in the case of the solo safe press and hold command on the keyboard and click with athe real mouse. Unfortunately VO doesn't recognize modifier keys being pressed with the keyboard mouse click. This is why you can't just do VO+command+shift+space to solo safe with the keyboard. Hope that helps and wasn't too confusing. Oh and yes scrool into view can help if the a above tip isn't working as well. On Feb 28, 2012, at 7:34 PM, John Boral wrote: Thanks Chuck, I'll try the gray bar tonight. Can you tell me if you've ever gotten a Protools Busy message that doesn't stop unless you force quit? I'm getting it often lately. Also, maybe you can help with 2 other things, #1 I frequently get apple menu is under the mouse no matter how things are routed. I believe it's because the VO cursor is in a place that the mouse can't follow. What are the proper commands to fit everything on the screen, somebody talked about a scroll in to view, is that it? #2 Is there something quick that can let you see 1 aspect of many tracks, for example, any way of knowing the status of solo, mute, record, read, write, latch, touch as you move up and down? Like if you have 24 tracks just hitting down arrow in the automation field and hearing off, off, off, read, read, latch, touch etc. Or scrolling down a part that would say, the track name and record on or record off as you go through each track. The way I'm doing it now is interacting with each track and I have to go through each column 1 by 1 to hear the state of where things are.
Re: Protools busy and interacting?
Right click on the track in teh rack list table or VO+shift+M and arrow down to scroll into view and vo+space on it On Feb 28, 2012, at 8:18 PM, John Boral wrote: Hi Stephen yes, I'm doing exactly that but the mouse doesn't move a majority of the time. Mostly when I'm interacting with something like a tracklist or somewhere far in to a window. I think it's because VO is saying where I am but it must be off of the screen for themouse to get to it. That's why I believe it always says apple menu under the mouse. It does work some times so I know it's working it's just that more times than not it doesn't work. Can you tell me the command for scroll in to view and maybe resizing the window all of the way if you think that will help?
Re: Solo Safe
Hi John, Just got back and just wanted to drop a quick line to let you know that it's not necessary to resize the track list table in order to solo safe a track. Command-clicking on a record button is something that can be done whether or not the track list table is showing or not. Chuck's mileage often varies. Slau
