Re: Drawing a mental Blank on nudging

2012-06-21 Thread Slau Halatyn
Vestiges of the analog world have creeped into the digital world in many ways, of course. The playhead is a great example. Even since the days of compact discs, there have been no playheads, per se, but we think of the ole playback head of an analog tape machine as being the point at which sound

Re: Mainstream Recording?

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Even? better! Chris. - Original Message - From: "Chris Norman" To: Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 9:46 PM Subject: Re: Mainstream Recording? OK, Instead of putting instructions for Harmony engine private, I'll put a basic outline on a new thread. HTH. On 22/06/2012, Poppa Bear wr

Re: Mainstream Recording?

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Norman
OK, Instead of putting instructions for Harmony engine private, I'll put a basic outline on a new thread. HTH. On 22/06/2012, Poppa Bear wrote: > Nice stuff Scott. > - Original Message - > From: "Scott Chesworth" > To: > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 5:18 PM > Subject: Re: Mainstream R

Re: Mainstream Recording?

2012-06-21 Thread Poppa Bear
Nice stuff Scott. - Original Message - From: "Scott Chesworth" To: Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 5:18 PM Subject: Re: Mainstream Recording? This is a really interesting thread! For anyone that might care to listen, my band tracked this tune entirely in a spare bedroom. Thanks to the

Re: Pro Tools 10

2012-06-21 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, As I bought a boxed version of pro tools 10 and did register with Avid they probably did not create me an account right? If not how can I get an Avid account and get access to the latest DVD? Is 10.2 totally unusable or once I delete those plugins should I be able to use it ok? Nick Gawro

Re: Drawing a mental Blank on nudging

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, fair enough. Then, what's a play head exactly, in the case of working with a DAW? I thought the cursor and the play head could... that's a big? key, I know, *could!* be the same, depending on the context. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Slau Halatyn" To: Sent: Thursday, J

Re: Mainstream Recording?

2012-06-21 Thread Scott Chesworth
This is a really interesting thread! For anyone that might care to listen, my band tracked this tune entirely in a spare bedroom. Thanks to the modern miracles of DI and MIDI triggering, the most noisy member was our vocalist. So far, we're two albums down the line and haven't touched what most pe

Re: Mainstream Recording?

2012-06-21 Thread Karen Lewellen
Scott, oh goodness! to the best of my knowledge, that trend is not happening here yet. I am a sound snob, and proud of it smiles, happily using my stereo to play hundreds of lps or real commercial created cds and not likely ever to dump those babies into a computer, smiles...far from aestheti

Re: Mainstream Recording?

2012-06-21 Thread Scott Chesworth
Karen, were you knocking how lossy mp3 is as a format, or did I misunderstand? If so, there really are bigger fish to fry. Dunno if the trend has spread to Canada yet, but here in London your average Joe/Joanna who likes his/her music has stopped using headphones to deafen themselves, now, they wal

Re: Pro Tools 10

2012-06-21 Thread HF
Here it is again. Guys, Check your ILok account, it'll tell you exactly what you have a license for. As for the DVD, just download it yourself. You can get it via your Avid account. HF On 6/21/2012 7:28 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: Sorry, your response didn't get included in this mess

Re: Controling Waves plugins

2012-06-21 Thread Poppa Bear
I agree, good verse Chuck. In His loving grip. - Original Message - From: Christopher-Mark Gilland To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 3:27 PM Subject: Re: Controling Waves plugins Chuck, Do you have Skype by chance? BTW, beautiful verse you h

Re: Drawing a mental Blank on nudging

2012-06-21 Thread Slau Halatyn
I think you meant to say "does not," right? Well, the insertion point stays in place unless the transport is engaged. I wouldn't necessarily use the term "playhead" because, aside from the option for "stationary playhead" in Pro Tools HD, there's no playhead, per se. It's just an insertion curs

Re: Controling Waves plugins

2012-06-21 Thread Poppa Bear
Thanks Chuck, give me a day or two, I just brought the Mack back from the studio and I'm still getting my spot ready here at home to set it up with the 002 and some moniters. Thanks - Original Message - From: CHUCK REICHEL To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 21

Re: Pro Tools 10

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Sorry, your response didn't get included in this message, for some weird reason. Please try again. Chris. - Original Message - From: "HF" To: Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 6:34 PM Subject: Re: Pro Tools 10 On 6/21/2012 11:02 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: Come again? I do

Re: Controling Waves plugins

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Chuck, Do you have Skype by chance? BTW, beautiful verse you have there in your signature. I won't go into a long rant about that, don't worry, but wow. Very nice. Chris. - Original Message - From: CHUCK REICHEL To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 6

Re: Drawing a mental Blank on nudging

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, so when you split, basically what you're saying is, the play head does actually move until you tab or option tab, right? Sorry I didn't get back with ya about this sooner. We've had an internet outage all day. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Slau Halatyn" To: Sent: Thursd

Re: Pro Tools 10

2012-06-21 Thread HF
On 6/21/2012 11:02 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: Come again? I don't think so, as I managed to dig up a p t 9 standard dvd, but my p t 10 ilok license isn't allowing it to work, so I don't think, unless you got some different kind a license, that is the case. Chris. - Original Mes

Re: Controling Waves plugins

2012-06-21 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Poppa, Heres my contact info again. :) Talk soon CHUCK REICHEL soundpicturerecord...@gmail.com www.SoundPictureRecording.com 954-742-0019 Isaiah 26 : 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. In GOD I Trust On Jun 21, 2012, at 5:49 PM

Re: Controling Waves plugins

2012-06-21 Thread Poppa Bear
I do remember something like that, I will try to dig up his email, or maybe he will chime in. - Original Message - From: Brian Casey To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:56 PM Subject: Re: Controling Waves plugins Chuck is the man for that from w

Re: Mainstream Recording?

2012-06-21 Thread Poppa Bear
I can appreciate all of the answers given so far and would like to add some more thoughts. I have a small recording studio and have various interactions with people who have recorded in different places and many have different philosophies. I know one guy who feels that you can't get anything qu

Re: Controling Waves plugins

2012-06-21 Thread Brian Casey
Chuck is the man for that from what I've seen in my time here! I think he has settings and stuff that he kindly shares. HTH Brian. From: Poppa Bear Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 9:49 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Controling Waves plugins Does anybody on here have the time to g

Controling Waves plugins

2012-06-21 Thread Poppa Bear
Does anybody on here have the time to give me a step by step on using my 002 to start controling my waves Silver bundle in PT? If not, can somebody stear me to a resource that is accessible? Thanks www.soundclick.com/ghettomissionary for your Christian Hip-hop. Nate Kile, Cross Road Recording S

Re: Mainstream Recording?

2012-06-21 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Chris, all. Two different points here. Chris to get your answer, research the album in question. Many artists are going back to the old fashioned analog way, Kiss did this for one of their last albums, and Michael's "crazy in love," did this too. A room full of real musicians mixed with

Re: Drawing a mental Blank on nudging

2012-06-21 Thread Slau Halatyn
Chris, It depends on which point you split first, the beginning or ending of the region you wish to nudge. If you first split the beginning of the region and then the end, naturally, the region you wish to select is before the insertion point. In that case, use Option-Tab to move back to the pr

Re: Mainstream Recording?

2012-06-21 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, I agree with you totally on all of those points and probably should have said that I am not against the home user learning in their home first as that is what I did with my windows systems and sound forge and studio recorder and some with cakewalk. I think there is a market for all types e

Re: Please tell me there's an auto-Save feature!

2012-06-21 Thread Nick Gawronski
Hi, Well in pro tools 10 in the project folder there is a plugin settings folder so you could try just selecting the plugins you had and see if it did save your settings for the plugins you were using. Nick Gawronski On 6/21/2012 7:42 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: I guess, Nick, my onl

Re: Drawing a mental Blank on nudging

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Oh, ok. Coolness. That's definitely a nice thing to know. So if I did it the other way, where I did command e then had to select the region, as soon as I hit command+E, would I then want to tab to the next region, or actually would the region I want be before my play head where I'd want to o

Re: Drawing a mental Blank on nudging

2012-06-21 Thread Slau Halatyn
Yes, you got it. One other thing you can do that might expedite things in a certain way is, if you have a large region, instead of splitting two points and then selecting, you can make a selection first and then press Command-r to "capture a region." You'll be prompted to name the region but the

Re: Pro Tools 10

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
BTW, please as I said before, Chris, get with me off list at clgillan...@gmail.com I have a mono audio track of vocal I did, and would like to use Harmoney engine to make it into 3 part harmoney, but the last time I tried the plugin on a friends system who had a full license of it, I couldn't

Re: Pro Tools 10

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
No Chris, I'd think that would be fine as you're right, it's not like you're giving someone a license. Not only this, but back when 9 was the most recent thing, you didn't have to buy p t 9 to get just the dvd. Had you downloaded the 30 day trial, that would have given you the full dmg of the

Re: Pro Tools 10

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Come again? I don't think so, as I managed to dig up a p t 9 standard dvd, but my p t 10 ilok license isn't allowing it to work, so I don't think, unless you got some different kind a license, that is the case. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Chris Norman" To: Sent: Thursday,

Balancing channels

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, this might be a P T question, but it may be more a recording gear question in general, so I apologise. I don't have the skill to know either way. Basically though, here's the deal, and if someone can offer me on or off list some techniques to work with this, that would really! be appreciated

Re: In dire need for Quantizing help.

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK Chris, let's talk about exportting. Say I have a sequence I've done of maybe 4 tracks. I'm not exactly sure how you're doing your midi. Are you creating xpand2 tracks, then routing the midi to through with the output path pop up buttons, or are you simply using instrument tracks like xpand

Re: Mainstream Recording?

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Chris. Get with me off list. clgillan...@gmail.com I'd like to talk to you about Harmoney Engine, if that's ok. I stink at doing harmoney, but I can't figure out the plugin with Voiceover. If you could write me out some steps to at least use the trial version, and see if I like it, and if

Re: Drawing a mental Blank on nudging

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Ahh, that does make sense. So, do i first then have to split, where I want the region to start? Like say, I go 4 bars into the track, then would I need to just start selecting? I'd think no, I'd have to first split, as if I don't, it's gonna then nudge the entire recording, so go say, 4 bars

Re: Pro Tools 10

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Norman
P.S.: If you really have problems, I may have the PT 9 DVD lying around, which I can send you an image of. I don't see as it's a problem, because you can't use it without an iLok anyways, so it's not like I'm giving you anything dodgy. HTH. On 21/06/2012, Chris Norman wrote: > I think what peopl

Re: Pro Tools 10

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Norman
I think what people are trying to say, is that if you get an iLok with a license for PT 10 on it, it automatically authorizes PT 9 as well, at least I know mine's a combined license or something. HTH. On 19/06/2012, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > no no no, what he's saying is, if you buy PT f

Re: In dire need for Quantizing help.

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Norman
I think it may be option 0, but can't remember. The other, which is what I do if things really go amuch, is export the MIDI of the track you've recorded, then edit it in QWS, which is a free windows program availabel from andrelouis.com/qws, and then re-import it. It'll come up on a midi track. W

Re: Editing and comps

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Norman
Also, I think Kevin has a podcast about that on his webpage, that's where I learned hehe. On 20/06/2012, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > I'd be happy to help where I can. Do you use Skype? > > Chris. > > - Original Message - > From: Jon Solitro > To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com >

Re: Mainstream Recording?

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Norman
Please, when you read this, note, I'm not saying anyone who's responded to these messages is wrong, there's some great people who know infinitely more about what they're talking about than I, but I'd like to give the view of a hobbiest. I have a studio in my spare bedroom, it's not professional in

Re: Drawing a mental Blank on nudging

2012-06-21 Thread Slau Halatyn
To nudge a region, the region must be selected. Use the plus and minus keys on the numeric keypad. Plus moves the region to the right or later in the timeline and minus moves it to the left or earlier in the timeline. If there's no region selected, using the plus or minus keys will simply move t

Drawing a mental Blank on nudging

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, guys, give me a break, it's early in the morning. LOL! I'm trying for the life of me to remember how to nudge something left or right in a session. I mean, what's the keystroke, to do it? I know you gotta first select the audio to nudge, then split it with command e to a new region. I

Re: Please tell me there's an auto-Save feature!

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I guess, Nick, my only concern is, can I remember how I processed the vocals to get such a great sound? I think I can, for what it's worth, but will have to see, as I'll bet those audio files probably have, as you said, the raw vocal, not the processed version. Right? Chris. - Original

Re: Please tell me there's an auto-Save feature!

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
You know? That's actually not a half bad idea. I'll look to see. BTW, I hope that you don't take offense to me asking this, but I'm just curious as I've been getting a fair amount of help lately from you on list. Just so I can properly address you, what exactly is your real actual name? I k

Re: Please tell me there's an auto-Save feature!

2012-06-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK Kevin, thank you., I'll have a look. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Kevin Reeves" To: Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:55 PM Subject: Re: Please tell me there's an auto-Save feature! Look in your session file backups folder inside your session. You'll see a ton of files i