Keyboard control surface?
Is anyone using the HOTKEY MATRIX - keyboard Control Surface for Pro Tools? It is a shortcut USB key board made for PT. I am considering it, but am not sure if anything in voice over will conflict with the short cut functions. Here it is, http://dnamusiclabs.com/hotkey-matrix Nate Kile, Cross Road Recording Studios, specializing in Mixing, Mastering and all your audio needs. www.crossroadrecording.com
Two Questions about basic Editing
OK. I totally understand that pressing num pad period then enter your number then period again will jump you to that marker. I also totally get that hitting num pad period, dial in your number, then press num pad enter will let you reassign! that marker to another location. What, however I'm not getting is I know that up arrow and down arrow make in and out drops. So what is the difference in a marker, from using up and down arrows? My second even more important question by far is, let's say that I'm working on a session, and it's, o... I dono... let's just say speech only. there is no music. Well, right now, in the edit window, if I interact with the counters cluster, I notice that my start, end, and length, are all set based on bar/beat. Well, if this is speech only, we don't wanna move through the file by bar/beat. We'd wanna move by hour, minute, second. How can I reconfigure my session, so that we can make this happen? Kevin, I gotta say, I had the hardest time following your tutorial before. I think a lot of it was I wasn't concentrating very thoroughly. I did great up until we started editting, and working with the num pad. Then you totally lost me. Now that I play the file again, it for some reason makes sense. You definitely put me way out of my comfort zone, but that's good! I like a challenge. I think now, I just really need to practice and really get good with those commands you gave me. One thing, when I'm dialing the numbers in, like you kept going to bar 24 in that track... so if we want to just go there, we'd do num pad star, 2 5 period 1, then hit return. My qu3estion there is, do I have to do 2 5 period 1 on the num pad, or does that have to be done from the qwerty numbers, or does it not matter, just so you hit return when done, and not num pad enter, as that is used for assigning a marker. Chris.
Re: Two Questions about basic Editing
From what I understand, markers are for saving spots in your project, whereas arrow keys are for marking regions for editing. You can change to SMTPE time in the counter display. It says counter display or something, can't remember. Anyways, hth, On 30/03/2012, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: OK. I totally understand that pressing num pad period then enter your number then period again will jump you to that marker. I also totally get that hitting num pad period, dial in your number, then press num pad enter will let you reassign! that marker to another location. What, however I'm not getting is I know that up arrow and down arrow make in and out drops. So what is the difference in a marker, from using up and down arrows? My second even more important question by far is, let's say that I'm working on a session, and it's, o... I dono... let's just say speech only. there is no music. Well, right now, in the edit window, if I interact with the counters cluster, I notice that my start, end, and length, are all set based on bar/beat. Well, if this is speech only, we don't wanna move through the file by bar/beat. We'd wanna move by hour, minute, second. How can I reconfigure my session, so that we can make this happen? Kevin, I gotta say, I had the hardest time following your tutorial before. I think a lot of it was I wasn't concentrating very thoroughly. I did great up until we started editting, and working with the num pad. Then you totally lost me. Now that I play the file again, it for some reason makes sense. You definitely put me way out of my comfort zone, but that's good! I like a challenge. I think now, I just really need to practice and really get good with those commands you gave me. One thing, when I'm dialing the numbers in, like you kept going to bar 24 in that track... so if we want to just go there, we'd do num pad star, 2 5 period 1, then hit return. My qu3estion there is, do I have to do 2 5 period 1 on the num pad, or does that have to be done from the qwerty numbers, or does it not matter, just so you hit return when done, and not num pad enter, as that is used for assigning a marker. Chris. -- Take care, Chris Norman. !-- chris.norm...@googlemail.com --
Re: Keyboard control surface?
I know a ton of sighted PT dabblers that would love this, but can't really see how it'd be worth its price tag for a screen reader user. It would help you get things done if you find it easier to remember an 8x19 matrix of buttons than standard shortcuts, but given how key-happy VO itself is before you even load PT, that probably won't apply to anyone here. As Chuck would say, ymmv... Scott On 30 Mar 2012, at 13:13, Slau Halatyn slauhala...@gmail.com wrote: I have to say, there's nothing really there that can't be done with standard keyboard shortcuts. Yes, that might sound attractive to people who aren't used to remembering modifier combinations but, in general, I think screen reader users are used to such memorization. I don't know, to me it seems superfluous although it probably looks pretty cool. Slau On Mar 30, 2012, at 3:26 AM, Poppa Bear wrote: Is anyone using the HOTKEY MATRIX – keyboard Control Surface for Pro Tools? It is a shortcut USB key board made for PT. I am considering it, but am not sure if anything in voice over will conflict with the short cut functions. Here it is, http://dnamusiclabs.com/hotkey-matrix Nate Kile, Cross Road Recording Studios, specializing in Mixing, Mastering and all your audio needs. www.crossroadrecording.com
Re: I've read, but still dont' totally get this.
Chris, Did you actually look through the Preferences window? In the Mixing tab, the very first checkbox is the one. I don't understand why you couldn't find it. well, there it is. best, Slau On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:59 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: I don't see that tab anywhere by the way. Can you get the exact tab it's on, and what exactly it's called? Chris. - Original Message - From: Slau Halatyn slauhala...@gmail.com To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 12:48 AM Subject: Re: I've read, but still dont' totally get this. Hi Chris, The reason you're not seeing bus 1-2 is because it's probably either the delay or reverb aux. I don't know why your busses have been named that way but that's what's going on. Normally, one can use the pop-up menu in the sends to send to a new auxiliary track. Pro Tools then automatically creates an Aux track and assigns the proper bus routing and names the bus to correspond with the auxiliary track's name. The way you did it is essentially the manual way. Just an FYI. One thing you might want to do to ensure the plug-in is getting signal is to set your default send level to unity gain. There's a checkbox in the Pro Tools Preferences window, although I can't remember exactly which tab, that says something like, Sends default to inf which means infinite resistance, in other words zero. Make sure that checkbox is unchecked. HTH, Slau On Mar 30, 2012, at 12:24 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: OK, this is really strange. I have two tracks in my project. One is justan mp3 karaoke track I imported. The other is my vocal track. So, I added a new stereo track on top of having those other two, and set it to a stereo A U X track. Then, on the vocal track, I interacted with the sends, ond on send A, I went to buss sub menu, and was going to route it to 1 2 stereo. I can't though. The only thing I see is things like reverb stereo, delay stereo, etc. then I see 7 8 or 7 etc. etc. I dont' see one 2. I went ahead and said what the heck, route it to 7 8. I did, then went to the A U X track, and set the input path to buss, 7 8. Again, I'm only doing that as I can't find 1 2 anywhere in the buss menu for some weird reason. If it would help you all for me to send you the session, I'd be happy to send space it off list so you actually can look at what I did. The bottom line is, in my A U X track, I assigned on insert A, a reverb effect. Then back on the audio track of my vocal, I hit the send assign button with vo+space. Here's also where I'm really getting stuck. According to the documentation, there is supposed to be a fader I can move up and down now to determine how much is sent to the A U X track. The only fader I see is something about a post mix or something fader. When I interacted with that and tried turning it from where it was which by default was like -100 something odd DB, I find no matter how high I turn it, I went all the way to like positive 20. I still heard nothing. No difference. I'm guessing that's either 1, not the right slider, or B, it has to do with the fact I routed to an unknown buss with the 7 8. I feel I got a pretty good handle now on what bgusses are, I just more specifically in p t from a VO perspective am not getting how to do this, nor why the 1 2 they tell me to select in the docs is not showing up. I must say: I'm perplexed. Chris.
Re: PDF PAGE JUMP
Command-Option-g works for me all the time. Hmm… On Mar 30, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Eric Lambier wrote: Thanks bro. It seems it only works once when you've opened the PDF. If you want to do it agin, you have to close preveiw and reopen. Kind of weird pain, but oh well! LOL thanks Eric On 2012-03-29, at 5:57 PM, Steve Martin wrote: use the go to option. its under the go menu or something like that. On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Eric Lambier elamb...@rogers.com wrote: Hello all Does anyone know how to jump pages in a PDF document? For emaple, I wanna jump to 58 and I'm on page 1. Cheers
Re: Keyboard control surface?
I can understand what you guys are saying. I guess that my thought is that since I am coming over from PC and completely new to voiceover and PT that anything with dedacated buttons would possibly help the transition to be a little less drastic. It seems that with voiceover there is expenincionally more keys that needed to be pressed over say 10 steps than I am used to. Maybe at this point it is just looking a little dawnting and I will just have to sourt through it like everyone else who has made the switch. Thanks - Original Message - From: Slau Halatyn To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 4:13 AM Subject: Re: Keyboard control surface? I have to say, there's nothing really there that can't be done with standard keyboard shortcuts. Yes, that might sound attractive to people who aren't used to remembering modifier combinations but, in general, I think screen reader users are used to such memorization. I don't know, to me it seems superfluous although it probably looks pretty cool. Slau On Mar 30, 2012, at 3:26 AM, Poppa Bear wrote: Is anyone using the HOTKEY MATRIX – keyboard Control Surface for Pro Tools? It is a shortcut USB key board made for PT. I am considering it, but am not sure if anything in voice over will conflict with the short cut functions. Here it is, http://dnamusiclabs.com/hotkey-matrix Nate Kile, Cross Road Recording Studios, specializing in Mixing, Mastering and all your audio needs. www.crossroadrecording.com
hooking my soundcard to ProTools
Hi all, I feel terribly stupid as this question has never been asked on this list, but how do I select my inputs and outputs in ProTools? Is my hardware audio device recognised automatically? I can't see anything about this on the manual except that it says that I should look in my audio devices manual. It's an RME, asio compatible, its driver is installed, and it is already recognised by my Mac, but I have several inputs and outputs to choose from, plus I thought maybe I could use my Mac's internal soundcard for audio feedback in some situations. I bought ProTools as a download so I don't have a demo session to start fiddling, but what am I missing here? Thanks for your help, Cheers, JPR http://www.facebook.com/jprykiel http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel
Re: hooking my soundcard to ProTools
Plug it in, and ensure it's recognised by seeing if it appears in the sound dialogue of System Preferences. If it doesn't, make sure the drivers are installed properly. When you've done that, set your device in the playback whatever it's called option in the Setup menu of Pro Tools. When it is, go to the periferals dialogue, and VO-space on the Input page of that box, press command a (I think), and VO-space on the button that says Delete. Then click the defaults button on that page, then do the same for the Output tab. If anyone else has experience with this, please chip in, because I'm not 100% sure this is right. HTH. On 30/03/2012, Jean-Philippe Rykiel jpryk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I feel terribly stupid as this question has never been asked on this list, but how do I select my inputs and outputs in ProTools? Is my hardware audio device recognised automatically? I can't see anything about this on the manual except that it says that I should look in my audio devices manual. It's an RME, asio compatible, its driver is installed, and it is already recognised by my Mac, but I have several inputs and outputs to choose from, plus I thought maybe I could use my Mac's internal soundcard for audio feedback in some situations. I bought ProTools as a download so I don't have a demo session to start fiddling, but what am I missing here? Thanks for your help, Cheers, JPR http://www.facebook.com/jprykiel http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel -- Take care, Chris Norman. !-- chris.norm...@googlemail.com --
Re: Please help me with documentation
Chris, Great explanation. Keith Reedy Click the link below to download MP3's of Keith Reedy's music as a gift from Bibles For The Blind. http://biblesfortheblind.org/download_music.shtml God gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him. J Hudson Taylor. On Mar 30, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Chris Norman wrote: 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 HDApplicationsDigidesignDocumentationPro 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. -- Take care, Chris Norman. !-- chris.norm...@googlemail.com --
Re: Please help me with documentation
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 HDApplicationsDigidesignDocumentationPro 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. -- Take care, Chris Norman. !-- chris.norm...@googlemail.com --
Re: MidiIng
Hi Chris, That Intro to Pro Tools pdf we talked about earlier contains all kinds of helpful information for people new to Pro Tools. Doing a search for keywords like instrument, for example, yields lots of useful instances throughout the manual. Of course, the Intro to Pro Tools guide is pretty basic. I'm sure you'll get through it in no time. when you're ready for some serious reading, the Pro Tools Reference guide is about as detailed as you can get, something to really sink your teeth into. Shame on me, dangling prepositions like that… Something into which you could sink your teeth—now there's some grammar for ya. :) Slau On Mar 30, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: First of all, what's the difference in a Midi track, vs. an instrument track? Second of all, let's say I have a track in 4/4 time, that keeps a constant 120BPM from beginning to end, no retards, nothing of sort. No tempo changes, etc. It's just a constant 4 4 120. How now do I quantize a instrument or midi track to a quartern note value? Finally, if I insert the Xpand!2 plugin on an instrument track, then select say acoustic pianos, and go to like, a warm piano, or what not, I find when I record enable the track, the volume is exceedingly low. So much so, I'm literally having to ajust the track fader Hi almost all the way up just to get even the slightest volume. Now, mind you, I'm using the built in midi sounds on the macbook, not the samples from my actual keyboard which are being triggered through my keyboard's midi out. Would that be a better way a doing it? If so, that's no issue. I certainly do have my interface hooked up where that could be done very easily with the push of one button. I'd have to figure out how to re-route that to the midi out of my interface, but that shouldn't be too hard. Chris.
FChuck Vin and Slau
Guys, since I know you're all working with some great equipment I wanted to tell you about a deal I found for myself. I'm able to get a D-command with the expansion module making it 24 faders in total along with a 192 and all cables for $9000. This would be completely my own money and nothing to do with the studio so it's a big decision to make very quickly. Basically, if I don't take it this weekend somebody else will and I don't want to make such a rash decision that I will end up regretting it. I'm very sure I'm going to stick with PT but the studio now has a rig in every room and in some rooms even has 2 complete systems. Even though I have access to them I don't want to be tied to that and feel I can learn much quicker on my own if I had my own system. So, can you all chime in a bit on if I should wait for a C24, Lynx, cards etc or grab this now. I've never used a D-command so that's another learning curve. Thanks all.
Re: MidiIng
Hello Slau, Where can we find these two documents you are referencing? I have a mac and I am thinking about switching to protools. I would like to get ahead and do some reading ahead of time though. Thanks, Brian On Mar 30, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote: Hi Chris, That Intro to Pro Tools pdf we talked about earlier contains all kinds of helpful information for people new to Pro Tools. Doing a search for keywords like instrument, for example, yields lots of useful instances throughout the manual. Of course, the Intro to Pro Tools guide is pretty basic. I'm sure you'll get through it in no time. when you're ready for some serious reading, the Pro Tools Reference guide is about as detailed as you can get, something to really sink your teeth into. Shame on me, dangling prepositions like that… Something into which you could sink your teeth—now there's some grammar for ya. :) Slau On Mar 30, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: First of all, what's the difference in a Midi track, vs. an instrument track? Second of all, let's say I have a track in 4/4 time, that keeps a constant 120BPM from beginning to end, no retards, nothing of sort. No tempo changes, etc. It's just a constant 4 4 120. How now do I quantize a instrument or midi track to a quartern note value? Finally, if I insert the Xpand!2 plugin on an instrument track, then select say acoustic pianos, and go to like, a warm piano, or what not, I find when I record enable the track, the volume is exceedingly low. So much so, I'm literally having to ajust the track fader Hi almost all the way up just to get even the slightest volume. Now, mind you, I'm using the built in midi sounds on the macbook, not the samples from my actual keyboard which are being triggered through my keyboard's midi out. Would that be a better way a doing it? If so, that's no issue. I certainly do have my interface hooked up where that could be done very easily with the push of one button. I'd have to figure out how to re-route that to the midi out of my interface, but that shouldn't be too hard. Chris.
Re: MidiIng
OK, I'll again have a look at it. Chris. - Original Message - From: Slau Halatyn slauhala...@gmail.com To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 5:25 PM Subject: Re: MidiIng Hi Chris, That Intro to Pro Tools pdf we talked about earlier contains all kinds of helpful information for people new to Pro Tools. Doing a search for keywords like instrument, for example, yields lots of useful instances throughout the manual. Of course, the Intro to Pro Tools guide is pretty basic. I'm sure you'll get through it in no time. when you're ready for some serious reading, the Pro Tools Reference guide is about as detailed as you can get, something to really sink your teeth into. Shame on me, dangling prepositions like that… Something into which you could sink your teeth—now there's some grammar for ya. :) Slau On Mar 30, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: First of all, what's the difference in a Midi track, vs. an instrument track? Second of all, let's say I have a track in 4/4 time, that keeps a constant 120BPM from beginning to end, no retards, nothing of sort. No tempo changes, etc. It's just a constant 4 4 120. How now do I quantize a instrument or midi track to a quartern note value? Finally, if I insert the Xpand!2 plugin on an instrument track, then select say acoustic pianos, and go to like, a warm piano, or what not, I find when I record enable the track, the volume is exceedingly low. So much so, I'm literally having to ajust the track fader Hi almost all the way up just to get even the slightest volume. Now, mind you, I'm using the built in midi sounds on the macbook, not the samples from my actual keyboard which are being triggered through my keyboard's midi out. Would that be a better way a doing it? If so, that's no issue. I certainly do have my interface hooked up where that could be done very easily with the push of one button. I'd have to figure out how to re-route that to the midi out of my interface, but that shouldn't be too hard. Chris.
Re: MidiIng
Oh I gotcha Chris. On Mar 30, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: They're on the DVD. Chris. - Original Message - From: Brian Howerton bshowert...@gmail.com To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 8:30 PM Subject: Re: MidiIng Hello Slau, Where can we find these two documents you are referencing? I have a mac and I am thinking about switching to protools. I would like to get ahead and do some reading ahead of time though. Thanks, Brian On Mar 30, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote: Hi Chris, That Intro to Pro Tools pdf we talked about earlier contains all kinds of helpful information for people new to Pro Tools. Doing a search for keywords like instrument, for example, yields lots of useful instances throughout the manual. Of course, the Intro to Pro Tools guide is pretty basic. I'm sure you'll get through it in no time. when you're ready for some serious reading, the Pro Tools Reference guide is about as detailed as you can get, something to really sink your teeth into. Shame on me, dangling prepositions like that… Something into which you could sink your teeth—now there's some grammar for ya. :) Slau On Mar 30, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: First of all, what's the difference in a Midi track, vs. an instrument track? Second of all, let's say I have a track in 4/4 time, that keeps a constant 120BPM from beginning to end, no retards, nothing of sort. No tempo changes, etc. It's just a constant 4 4 120. How now do I quantize a instrument or midi track to a quartern note value? Finally, if I insert the Xpand!2 plugin on an instrument track, then select say acoustic pianos, and go to like, a warm piano, or what not, I find when I record enable the track, the volume is exceedingly low. So much so, I'm literally having to ajust the track fader Hi almost all the way up just to get even the slightest volume. Now, mind you, I'm using the built in midi sounds on the macbook, not the samples from my actual keyboard which are being triggered through my keyboard's midi out. Would that be a better way a doing it? If so, that's no issue. I certainly do have my interface hooked up where that could be done very easily with the push of one button. I'd have to figure out how to re-route that to the midi out of my interface, but that shouldn't be too hard. Chris.
Wow! Can a compressor really do this if not set right?
Oh, wow! Just, wow! I was singing the song 3 Wooden Crosses by Randy Travis. I'm sure a lotta you know it. When I reach my double concinants ending with the letter r, for instance... crosses... preacher, driver, three, growing, children, and promised, On these words, I sound like I'm doing an R tap/flip, as some call it. It's not a full roll like the double R in spanish, but it's very close. Take the spanish word for Thank you. Gracias. it literally sounds like if I said the word great, as if I were saying that word with a heavy spanish accent. The g r sound makes my r become a tap. Is it just I actually sang it that way not knowing it, and the compressor is bringing it out to my attention, or is it more likely the compressor isn't set right. I'm thinking the ladder. Chris.
Re: FChuck Vin and Slau
Hi Joe, Well sounds like a good deal is on the table... One thing, does the system come with HD cards? The 192 will need a card. Even so, the price for the control surface and interface still make it a good deal. One other thing about the 192. If it's the original one, it will come standard with 8 in and out. You will need to get an expansion card to add either 8 in or out. Give us a little more info if you can, Vin - Original Message - From: Sonar Switcher iamablanksl...@yahoo.com To: Pro Tools Accessibility ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 8:19 PM Subject: FChuck Vin and Slau Guys, since I know you're all working with some great equipment I wanted to tell you about a deal I found for myself. I'm able to get a D-command with the expansion module making it 24 faders in total along with a 192 and all cables for $9000. This would be completely my own money and nothing to do with the studio so it's a big decision to make very quickly. Basically, if I don't take it this weekend somebody else will and I don't want to make such a rash decision that I will end up regretting it. I'm very sure I'm going to stick with PT but the studio now has a rig in every room and in some rooms even has 2 complete systems. Even though I have access to them I don't want to be tied to that and feel I can learn much quicker on my own if I had my own system. So, can you all chime in a bit on if I should wait for a C24, Lynx, cards etc or grab this now. I've never used a D-command so that's another learning curve. Thanks all.
Re: MidiIng
Yes, they do get installed in the DegiDesign or Avid folder in applications. They are in a sub folder called documents. A google search for pro tools 9 reference guide or pro tools 10 reference guide should take you right to it on avids site. Not sure about the gettings started guides availability online though. - T.O.M On Mar 30, 2012, at 11:04 PM, Slau Halatyn slauhala...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, they're installed with the Pro Tools installation. You won't have them on your Mac by default, of course. You could also find them somewhere on the Avid site although I'm sure they're not terribly easy to find. A google search might yield something. Cheers, slau On Mar 30, 2012, at 8:30 PM, Brian Howerton wrote: Hello Slau, Where can we find these two documents you are referencing? I have a mac and I am thinking about switching to protools. I would like to get ahead and do some reading ahead of time though. Thanks, Brian On Mar 30, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote: Hi Chris, That Intro to Pro Tools pdf we talked about earlier contains all kinds of helpful information for people new to Pro Tools. Doing a search for keywords like instrument, for example, yields lots of useful instances throughout the manual. Of course, the Intro to Pro Tools guide is pretty basic. I'm sure you'll get through it in no time. when you're ready for some serious reading, the Pro Tools Reference guide is about as detailed as you can get, something to really sink your teeth into. Shame on me, dangling prepositions like that… Something into which you could sink your teeth—now there's some grammar for ya. :) Slau On Mar 30, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: First of all, what's the difference in a Midi track, vs. an instrument track? Second of all, let's say I have a track in 4/4 time, that keeps a constant 120BPM from beginning to end, no retards, nothing of sort. No tempo changes, etc. It's just a constant 4 4 120. How now do I quantize a instrument or midi track to a quartern note value? Finally, if I insert the Xpand!2 plugin on an instrument track, then select say acoustic pianos, and go to like, a warm piano, or what not, I find when I record enable the track, the volume is exceedingly low. So much so, I'm literally having to ajust the track fader Hi almost all the way up just to get even the slightest volume. Now, mind you, I'm using the built in midi sounds on the macbook, not the samples from my actual keyboard which are being triggered through my keyboard's midi out. Would that be a better way a doing it? If so, that's no issue. I certainly do have my interface hooked up where that could be done very easily with the push of one button. I'd have to figure out how to re-route that to the midi out of my interface, but that shouldn't be too hard. Chris.
