Pro Tools 7.4 Quick Start Guide for Educators (By Robin Hodson & Marc Schonbrun, with Ken Johnson) Table of Contents WHY USE PRO TOOLS ?...
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 10 Now if you don’t have a keyboard with sounds, your MIDI file won’t play unless we convert it into an Inst
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 11 Editing Existing Audio To begin editing audio, you should have some audio in place on your edit window f
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 12 your numeric keypad. The NUDGE section of your toolbar controls the amount by which the audio moves. If y
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 13 adding them to your audio now. Fades are found in the edit menu, however in order for a fade to work, you
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 14 New Audio - Stereo & Multi Track Recording 1 Start a new session in Pro Tools. Type Control/Shift N
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 15 ensemble piece, this perhaps doesn’t matter). Also, if you might later be likely to add MIDI, or drum loo
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 16 old take is accessible in the same way: go to the up/down arrows, select the old take and it will reappea
Using MIDI & Instrument Tracks 1 Recording MIDI data into Pro Tools in not a great deal different to audio, except that MIDI data itself is not
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 18 7 Record enable the MIDI track (the R button in the track box), make sure you’re NOT using loop laybac
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 19 If you’d like to quantize as you play into Pro Tools, in the same Event>MIDI menu, you’ll see “Input Q
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 2 Why Use Pro Tools ? Pro Tools is a sold at special educational pricing. It’s made, marketed and supported
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 20 When you’re making selections/edits of the MIDI data, you should have the SMART TOOL selected, and you sh
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 21 These can be moved and adjusted to create a smooth fade. If you chose to edit velocities instead, click a
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 22 The Xpand plug-in window will appear: more on that in a minute. Drag that window out of the way if its
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 23 layering more sounds to go with the one you chose for part A. There’s volume sliders to control the overa
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 24 Working With Video & Creating Soundtracks/Broadcasts 1 Pro Tools allows you to drag and drop any vi
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 25 5 Open the mix window. You’ll notice that the video doesn’t have it’s own track slider, because it has n
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 26 you may chop off the actual speech. If you make an error, you can always “undo” and try it again. 10 Th
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 27 The Basics of Mixing & Using Audio Plug-ins 1 The most basic aspect of mixing is balance. We contro
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 28 Diagram A (above) shows how you add INSERT effects (EQ, Compression) to a track in a Pro Tools session.
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 29 Choose Plug-in, and you’ll several choices: choose EQ>1-Band EQ 3 (mono) You have now added an insert
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 3 Microphones (we suggest several mics from M-Audio, from the Soundcheck Dynamic mic, to the Nova condenser
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 30 8 Now change the INPUT on the Aux Input track by selecting the Audio input path selector and choosing
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 31 9 Next, we add the effect desired to the Aux Input. Go to the INSERT area (at the top of the Aux Input s
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 32 Mastering a MultiTrack Finished CD Once you’ve gotten all your sounds together, you’ll need to finalize
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 33 your faders with a mouse as well, please refer to your documentation for more information on “Recording A
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 34 5 Bounce. The process of creating a final mix in Pro Tools is called a “Bounce”. Once your song sounds e
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 35 list. Click the arrows again to hide it. You can resize the horizontal size of the Region List by draggin
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 36 Some Basic Shortcuts in Pro Tools For a complete list, refer to the documentation that comes with Pro Too
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 4 Load Pro Tools first (from the installer disc) Load the DRIVER that came with your hardware. This is an A
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 5 Finding Your Way Around – Audio & MIDI 1 Before you start, you might want to grab some audi
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 6 5 You’ll see a timeline running along the screen, with various icons at the top of the window: you can cu
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 7 9 One other nice feature is the ability to playback a section of your song in a loop/cycle. To do this, y
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 8 Your outputs are chosen automatically, and there’s no need to alter them. The fader will affect the overal
Pro Tools Quick Start Guide: October 2008 9 own sounds). If you only have a silent MIDI keyboard controller, you can go to the section of this guide t
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