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Pro Tools 8
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Pro Tools 8 Music Production, Recording, Editing, and Mixing
Mike Collins
AMSTERDAM OSTON EIDELBERG ONDON EW YORK SAN DIEGO AN FRANCISCO INGAPORE YDNEY Focal Press is an imprint of Elsevier
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Contents About the Author
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Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1 Pro Tools – The world’s leading digital audio workstation
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Chapter 2 Using Pro Tools
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Trimmer Tool
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Selector Tool
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Grabber Tool
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Smart Tool
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Chapter 3 Time Operations, Tempo Operations, and Key Signatures
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Chapter 4 Working with MIDI
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Track Compensation
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Do to All
Automation lanes
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Setting the Clef Drum notation
Trimming notes Copying notes Moving notes Transposing instruments transposing instruments
Individual attributes Global attributes The attributes Printing the Score
Chapter 5 Recording
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Chapter 6 Editing
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Stripping Silence from regions to Timeline Selection
Sync points xiii
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Preferences for Dynamic Transport
Choosing the takes
Chapter 7 Mixing
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Check your monitoring
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Choose your monitoring levels
Metering in Pro Tools Phase Scope metering Fat meters
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Phase measurements
Phase Meter Leq(A) Meter Level Meters
Monitor controllers
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Musically Technically Delay effects
StroboSoft tuner
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Speaker Soak using the TD-1
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Reamping using the TD-1
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Sorting the Tempos
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Marking the sections
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Grouping tracks
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Contents
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A Plea for Sanity Appendix Summing to talk about!
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Index
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About the Author
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Acknowledgments
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In this chapter
1 Pro Tools – The world’s leading digital audio workstation
1.1 Introduction
Pro Tools LE & M-Powered
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in Pro Tools
1.2 Learning Pro Tools
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In this chapter
2 Using Pro Tools
2.1 Introduction
Getting started
Help
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2.2 Starting the Engines
The Playback Engine
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No t e
U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.1 Playback
The number of voices that you choose here controls the number of tracks that
Figure 2.2 Playback
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Automatic Delay Compensation
Phase problems have been
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Tools users in the past – especially
an issue for Pro
U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.3 Enabling Automatic Delay Compensation in the
Manual Delay Compensation
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No t e
Hardware Setup
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Figure 2.4
I/O Setup
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
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No t e
C
Tip
Figure 2.5 change the routing from
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C
No t e
so that you can listen for a noisy
microphone coming
through a chan
Auditioning audio from other applications
Figure 2.6 Choosing the
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.7
Figure 2.8 Preferences to use the
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Figure 2.9 Changing the
Figure 2.10
C
Tip
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
2.3 The user interface
The QuickStart dialog
C
Tip
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Tip
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Opening sessions with plug-ins deactivated
C
Tip
Setting the Color Palette
Managing your Window Configurations
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.11 The
Figure 2.12
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Tip
Figure 2.13 Configuration option in the Configurations
Figure 2.14
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.15 Creating
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Tip
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Figure 2.16
U s i n g P r o To o l s
Tip
C
Figure 2.17
The Universe View
Figure 2.18 The
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Note
2.4 The main windows
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Figure 2.19
U s i n g P r o To o l s
Organizing the Transport window
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Figure 2.20 Transport
C
Tip
Transport Preferences
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No t e
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.21 Transport
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No t e
available to use for other purposes, because the number of available
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C
Tip
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No t e
Scrub/Shuttle and the Numeric Keypad modes
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.22 Scrubbing
Figure 2.23 Scrubbing
Figure 2.24 Scrubbing
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C
Tip
Figure 2.25
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
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Organizing the Mix window
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.26 pointing to the Group
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Figure 2.27
U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.28 Making multiple assignments for
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Note
Figure 2.29 Multiple
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Organizing the Edit window
The Toolbar
Figure 2.30 Toolbar
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
2.5 The Edit modes
Figure 2.31
Tip
C
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The Toolbar Zoom buttons and Presets
Figure 2.32 Zoom
The Edit window zoom buttons
Vertical zoom in and out button
Figure 2.33
Horizontal zoom in and out button
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
Audio zoom in and out button
Figure 2.34
MIDI Zoom in and out button
The Tool buttons
Zoomer Tool
Trimmer Tool
Selector Tool To the right of the Trimmer Tool is the Selector Tool that lets you use the cur 39
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C
Tip
Whenever you are not specifically using one of the other tools, the Selector
Grabber Tool
Figure 2.35 to select noncontiguous
Smart Tool 40
U s i n g P r o To o l s
Scrub Tool
Figure 2.36 The Smart
Pencil Tool
The Mode buttons
Zoom Toggle
Figure 2.37 Zoom
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C
Tip
Tab to Transients The Tab to Transients button lets you automatically locate the cursor to the
Figure 2.38 Tab to
tions linked
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Figure 2.39
Figure 2.40
unlinked, you can
U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.41
Figure 2.42
C
Tip
Location indicators
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Figure 2.43
Edit Window MIDI editing controls
Figure 2.44
n ditin
u tom not du ation
D au t not on
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a MIDI not
Figure 2.45
o it
U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.46 Custom
Cursor values display
Figure 2.47 Cursor
Edit Window indicators
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im in data on in
tatu
ion data on in
Figure 2.48
tatu
Automati d a
n ation
om
Grid and Nudge
Figure 2.49
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
C
Tip
points, select these using the Time Grabber or Selector tool then press the
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No t e
2.6 The rulers
Figure 2.50 A selection
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Figure 2.51
The Meter ruler lets you insert time signature markings at appropriate locations
Figure 2.52
The Markers ruler lets you insert markers at appropriate locations along the
Figure 2.53
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
C
Tip
2.7 Edit window pop-up selectors
Figure 2.54
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Figure 2.55
2.8 Track heights
Figure 2.57 Click on the vertical rule to the left of reveal the Track height
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Figure 2.56 Track
U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.58
Continuously Variable track heights
When you point your mouse at the bottom line of any Track Controls column
Figure 2.59 Mouse
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C
Tip
2.9 Zooming around
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
C
Tip
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Tip
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all
Selected
C
Tip
Zoom Toggle
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.60 Zoom
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C
Tip
Figure 2.61
Toggle Preferences for
Figure 2.62
Toggle Preferences for
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Tip
U s i n g P r o To o l s
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No t e
2.10 Scrolling windows
Figure 2.63 Continuous
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Scrolling behavior
2.11 Playback Cursor Locator
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right cursor moves to any position after
C
No t e
left before
U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.64 The can be seen at the top right in the Main
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No t e
2.12 Keyboard Focus
C
Tip
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Commands Keyboard Focus
Figure 2.65 right of the tracks pane in
C
Tip
Region List Keyboard Focus
Figure 2.66 Enabling
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
Group List Keyboard Focus
Figure 2.67 Enabling
2.13 Channels and tracks
2.14 Voices and Voiceable tracks
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
Figure 2.68
C
Tip
Figure 2.69 Clicking on the track type icon to
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No t e
2.15 Muting tracks
C
No t e
2.16 Soloing tracks
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
C
Figure 2.70 button on the Double the piano tracks have
Tip
Figure 2.71 Choosing
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No t e
Figure 2.72
Figure 2.73 Setting the
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Tip
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
C
No t e
Figure 2.74 When tracks
2.17 Finding tracks in the Edit and Mix windows
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Figure 2.75
2.18 Navigating to tracks by number
Figure 2.76 Scroll to
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U s i n g P r o To o l s
C
No t e
2.19 Fit all shown tracks in the Edit window
Figure 2.77 Fitting as many tracks as possible in
C
Note
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2.20 “Do to All” and “Do to All Selected”
2.21 Summary
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3 Time Operations, Tempo Operations, and Key Signatures
3.1 Introduction
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C
Tip
tures of the system so that this all becomes
very familiar to you as soon
3.2 Timebase and Conductor rulers
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Ti m e O p e r a t i o n s , Te m p o O p e r a t i o n s , a n d K e y S i g n a t u r e s
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Tip
Edit selections for track Timeline selections
Figure 3.1 Tempo
Figure 3.2
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Figure 3.3
but their most basic function, that of marking out the sections of your music,
Choosing the Marker Reference
Figure 3.4 Choosing the
will not ple location will
will not
Figure 3.5
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will
Ti m e O p e r a t i o n s , Te m p o O p e r a t i o n s , a n d K e y S i g n a t u r e s
Setting the Time Scales
C
No t e
3.3 Meter, Tempo, and Click
Creating a click track
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When you choose
Figure 3.6 The Click
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Tip
C
No t e
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Ti m e O p e r a t i o n s , Te m p o O p e r a t i o n s , a n d K e y S i g n a t u r e s
Figure 3.7
Time Signatures and Clicks
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Figure 3.8 open the Change Meter
Figure 3.9 Changing
Figure 3.10 Choosing
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Figure 3.11 Meter
Tempo
Setting tempo manually
Figure 3.12 Setting the
Tapping the tempo
–
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C
No t e
Figure 3.13 Clicking on the Song Start Marker in
Figure 3.14 Tempo
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Figure 3.15 Tempo Change to the
C
Tip
To save typing the location if you are close to this, you can tick the Snap
Figure 3.16 Tempo
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Ti m e O p e r a t i o n s , Te m p o O p e r a t i o n s , a n d K e y S i g n a t u r e s
Figure 3.17 Applying a constant tempo change
Figure 3.18 tempos over a range
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C
No t e
Figure 3.19 The Graphic
Figure 3.20 the Trimmer Tool in the
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Figure 3.21 Tempo the Tempo Density
C
No t e
Figure 3.22 Tempo
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Figure 3.23
Changing the Track Timebase
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Figure 3.24 Timebase
Ti m e O p e r a t i o n s , Te m p o O p e r a t i o n s , a n d K e y S i g n a t u r e s
Figure 3.25
Figure 3.26 Track
Figure 3.27 Track
C
No t e
Sample-based audio and MIDI
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C
No t e
Tick-based audio and MIDI
will change relative
C
No t e
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Ti m e O p e r a t i o n s , Te m p o O p e r a t i o n s , a n d K e y S i g n a t u r e s
C
Note
Time Scales and tick resolution
C
No t e
The Linearity Display Mode
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Figure 3.28
Figure 3.29 Each beat at Figure 3.30 Each beat at along the timeline – 4 complete bars playing
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notice that, as the tempo increases, the length of the bars along the timeline
Ti m e O p e r a t i o n s , Te m p o O p e r a t i o n s , a n d K e y S i g n a t u r e s
Figure 3.31
Figure 3.32
C
Tip
t
C
No t e
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Tempo Events and Bar|Beat Markers
C
No t e
Figure 3.33 Clicking convert Tempo events to
Figure 3.34 menu to change Tempo
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C
No t e
Ti m e O p e r a t i o n s , Te m p o O p e r a t i o n s , a n d K e y S i g n a t u r e s
Building a tempo map by inserting Bar|Beat Markers
Figure 3.35
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Figure 3.36 Tempo ruler to make this beat in Pro Tools
C
Tip
C
No t e
Re-positioning Bar|Beat Markers
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with
Ti m e O p e r a t i o n s , Te m p o O p e r a t i o n s , a n d K e y S i g n a t u r e s
Figure 3.37
3.4 Time Operations
Setting the Meter
sign in the
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Figure 3.38 Meter
Figure 3.39 Time
Figure 3.40 Tempo,
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Ti m e O p e r a t i o n s , Te m p o O p e r a t i o n s , a n d K e y S i g n a t u r e s
Insert or Cut Time
Figure 3.41
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Figure 3.42 Cut Time
Move Song Start
Figure 3.43 Move Song
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3.5 Key Signatures
The Key Signature ruler
Figure 3.44
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The Key Change dialog or minor, select from
Figure 3.45
any of the flat keys or sharp keys, specify a range of
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Ti m e O p e r a t i o n s , Te m p o O p e r a t i o n s , a n d K e y S i g n a t u r e s
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Diatonic versus chromatic
Pitched tracks
Figure 3.46 the Playlist selector to
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Diatonic transposition
Figure 3.47 Event
Figure 3.48
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Figure 3.49
Figure 3.50 Transposing
Figure 3.51 to choose Transpose
Figure 3.52
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Elastic Audio region-based pitch transposition
Tip
C
Figure 3.53 Enabling
Figure 3.54 Elastic
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No t e
C
Figure 3.55 Event
Removing region pitch shifting
C
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Note
Ti m e O p e r a t i o n s , Te m p o O p e r a t i o n s , a n d K e y S i g n a t u r e s
3.6 Summary
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In this chapter
4 Working with MIDI
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Controlling a MIDI rack from Pro Tools
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Computer MIDI setup
Tip
C
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Figure 4.1
Working with MIDI
Pro Tools MIDI setup
the original
C
No t e
to make any changes at any point in the future, you still have
Figure 4.2 Pro Tools the outputs of each
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Tip
C
No t e
MIDI Thru preferences
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Working with MIDI
Figure 4.3
Initial MIDI system setup data
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Figure 4.4
C
No t e
Saving templates
Import session some tracks set up in other sessions, or in a Template session, you can use the 116
Working with MIDI
Figure 4.5
Recording audio from MIDI hardware devices
C
No t e
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Tip
Figure 4.6
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Working with MIDI
C
No t e
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Figure 4.7 Entering
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C
Figure 4.8
Tip
Working with MIDI
MIDI Beat Clock
C
No t e
C
No t e
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Figure 4.9 Setting an
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Working with MIDI
C
Note
C
Tip
4.3 How Delay Compensation works with MIDI
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Using Delay Compensation view
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Working with MIDI
Figure 4.10 Delay
Figure 4.11 Delay Compensation Time
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No t e
Track Compensation
Figure 4.12
the Track is not
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Working with MIDI
Figure 4.13
Track is so Delay Compensation is
4.4 Instrument tracks
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4.5 Recording MIDI onto a MIDI or Instrument track
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Figure 4.14
Working with MIDI
Figure 4.15
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Tip
Record mode
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Tip
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Figure 4.16 Transport
C
Note
Figure 4.17
Canceling or undoing your MIDI recording
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Working with MIDI
Loop recording MIDI
Figure 4.18
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Tip
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Figure 4.19
Figure 4.20 accessible from the
4.6 Recording audio from a virtual instrument
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Working with MIDI
Figure 4.21
C
Tip
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4.7 Editing MIDI
Bars, Beats, and Clock “Ticks”
display
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Figure 4.22 alphanumerically in the
Working with MIDI
Shortcuts to adjust Grid and Nudge values
C
Tip
How to Remove Duplicate Notes
How to deal with stuck notes
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Mirrored MIDI Editing
C
Tip
Selecting and playing notes with the mini-keyboard
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Working with MIDI
C
Tip
Do to All
to set all selected
Special Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear Commands
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Graphic Editing in the Edit Window
Figure 4.23 The the right of the Counters, of the start point of the
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Working with MIDI
Figure 4.24 Continuous Controller
Figure 4.25
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Figure 4.26
Figure 4.27
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Working with MIDI
Figure 4.28 track using the
Automation lanes
Figure 4.29
Figure 4.30
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Figure 4.31 A lane
C
No t e
Note and controller chasing
Figure 4.32 Enabling
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Working with MIDI
No t e
C
Event List Editing
Figure 4.33 Data in the
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Figure 4.34
Figure 4.35
C
Tip
C
No t e
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Working with MIDI
Quantize to Grid command
Figure 4.36 Part of the
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No t e
4.8 MIDI and Instrument controls and track heights
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Figure 4.38
Figure 4.37 the available options
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No t e
Working with MIDI
Figure 4.39 Track
Figure 4.40 Track
Figure 4.41 Small Track buttons to the right of the Mute button for the
4.9 MIDI Real-Time Properties
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Figure 4.42
Figure 4.43
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Working with MIDI
C
No t e
4.10 Exporting MIDI tracks
Figure 4.44
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Figure 4.45
4.11 The MIDI Editors
Figure 4.46
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Part of the
Working with MIDI
Tracks and groups in the MIDI Editors
Figure 4.47
Figure 4.48
How the MIDI Editors work
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Using the MIDI Editor to insert notes
Figure 4.49
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Working with MIDI
all tracks in the
Figure 4.50
Automation lanes in MIDI Editor Windows
Figure 4.51
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Figure 4.53
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Figure 4.54
Working with MIDI
Figure 4.55
Figure 4.56
The MIDI Editor Toolbar
Figure 4.57 engage one or other of
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Figure 4.58 Mute status revealing that not all the
Figure 4.59 Solo status revealing that not all
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Figure 4.60
Figure 4.61 Clicking on
Figure 4.62
Figure 4.63
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Figure 4.64
Figure 4.65 Toolbar
Figure 4.66 The
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Figure 4.67
Figure 4.68 Default
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Figure 4.69
Figure 4.70 The
Figure 4.71 The compact version of the that lets you choose
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Figure 4.72
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Timebase and Conductor rulers
Figure 4.73
The Superimposed notes view
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Working with MIDI
Figure 4.74
Figure 4.75
Figure 4.76 Display
4.12 The Score Editor
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Using the Score Editor
Figure 4.77 Entering a
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Figure 4.78 Part of
Figure 4.79 Score
Figure 4.80 Piano
When you play back the music, a separate playback cursor appears in the
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Figure 4.81 Playback Cursor visible near the
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Figure 4.83 The Score
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Figure 4.85
Figure 4.84
Setting the Clef
Figure 4.86 Part of the
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Drum notation
Figure 4.87 Clefs set correctly for piano,
Figure 4.88
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Using the Notation Tools
Figure 4.89 Selecting a
Figure 4.90
Trimming notes
Figure 4.91 Trimming
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Figure 4.92 Trimmer tool to lengthen
Figure 4.93
Copying notes
Figure 4.94 Selecting
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Figure 4.95
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Figure 4.96 Moving
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Figure 4.97 Pencil tool to move a
Transposing instruments
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Working with MIDI
How the Score Editor handles transposing instruments
Figure 4.98
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Individual attributes
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Working with MIDI
Figure 4.99 Display Attributes set to
Global attributes
Figure 4.100
The attributes
Figure 4.101 Display
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Figure 4.102
Figure 4.103
Printing the Score
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Working with MIDI
Figure 4.104 Score
Figure 4.105 Score
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Exporting to Sibelius
4.13 Summary
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Working with MIDI
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5 Recording
5.1 Introduction
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5.2 Preparing Pro Tools for recording
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Recording
Disk space for recording
Figure 5.1
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Figure 5.2 Setting the
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Figure 5.3
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Figure 5.4 Copy To Figure 5.5 Clicking
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Recording
Figure 5.6 Choose the same time – or choose
Figure 5.7 setup to control the being sent to interface
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Monitoring latency
be
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Figure 5.8 Setting the
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Delay Compensation
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To enable Delay Compensation, you can either select Delay Compensation
Figure 5.9 Part of the Compensation Engine
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Figure 5.10 The total System Delay in samples
Figure 5.11 Delay Compensation Time
Figure 5.12 The
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Figure 5.13
Figure 5.14 Delay the Piano track has the Compensation Engine to compensate for this
Figure 5.15 Delay Compensation has been
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RTAS plug-ins “health” warning
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before
not
after
Auto Input and Input Only monitoring
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Recording
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de-select
Recording with or without effects
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Recording
Recording with plug-in effects
Figure 5.17
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Record enabling
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DestructivePunch is a destructive
Record Safe mode
Half-speed recording and playback
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Recording new takes using Playlists
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Figure 5.18
Figure 5.19
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Figure 5.20 Automatic
Preroll and postroll
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Figure 5.21
Recording
Figure 5.22
Figure 5.23 White flags postroll amounts are set,
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Figure 5.24 Drag the Preroll or Postroll flags along the Timeline to set
Figure 5.25
5.5 Destructive Record
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Setting this up
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Figure 5.26 Setup for
Selecting takes after Loop Recording
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Command-drag (Macintosh) or Control-drag (Windows) another take from the Region List into the Playlist. This will immediately replace the previous take, snapping exactly to the correct location because it has the same User Time Stamp. To access the Takes List pop-up menu to select a different take, make sure that the Selector tool is engaged, select the take currently residing in the track, then Command-click (Mac) or Control-click (Windows) anywhere in the region. The pop-up menu that appears contains a list of regions that share the same User Time Stamp. So when you choose a region from the Takes List pop-up menu, this replaces the previous take and snaps exactly to the correct location in the same way.
Figure 5.27 The Takes List pop-up menu.
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5.7 Punch Recording Manual punch-in and punch-out Pro Tools provides three different manual punch recording modes that all have their uses when you are tracking and overdubbing music. QuickPunch is a nondestructive punch-recording mode that lets recordenabled tracks be punched in and out during playback by clicking the Record 210
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pass ing regions
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Figure 5.28
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Setting levels for punch recording
QuickPunch
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Preparing for QuickPunch
from, using a preroll value if you like, then press the Spacebar or click the Play
Figure 5.29 Pro Tools in
TrackPunch
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Recording
Preparing for TrackPunch
all selected
all
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Figure 5.30 When Enable button lights
Figure 5.31 When
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To punch in on multiple tracks simultaneously, make sure that each track you
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DestructivePunch
Preparing for DestructivePunch
Figure 5.32 Setting the DestructivePunch File
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all
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Figure 5.33
Figure 5.34 DestructivePunch is
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Figure 5.35 Track Compensation is
Recording
Figure 5.36 Track Compensation suspension Track Compensation
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Figure 5.37
5.8 Summary
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In this chapter
Track Compositing
6 Editing
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Edit menu commands
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Figure 6.1
Undo and Undo History
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Editing
Figure 6.2
Restore Last Selection
Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear commands
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Special Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear commands
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Repeat to Fill Selection
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Stripping Silence from regions
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Editing
Figure 6.4 With the Strip Silence parameters correctly set, you see black rectangular
Figure 6.5
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Figure 6.6 The silence
Figure 6.7 ambience, remaining
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Figure 6.8 The Separate selection into separate
Figure 6.9
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Figure 6.10
Inserting Silence
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Time Compression and Expansion (TCE) Edit to Timeline Selection
Figure 6.11
Figure 6.12 Selecting
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Figure 6.13
Figure 6.14 selection has been to fit into the Timeline
Consolidating regions
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Editing
6.3 The Edit modes
Slip mode
Shuffle mode
Figure 6.15 Selecting
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Figure 6.16 The automatically attaches itself to the previous
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Spot mode
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Figure 6.17
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Figure 6.18
Figure 6.19 Click the location into the Start
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Figure 6.20
Grid mode
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Absolute and Relative Grid modes
Figure 6.21 Selecting
As you can
see from the accompanying screenshot, the bass plays four
region to right or left along the Timeline, the region snaps to start positions
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Figure 6.22 The bass
original region, thus preserving the original positioning of the notes relative to
Figure 6.23
Figure 6.24 Timeline in Absolute
6.4 Editing in the Edit window
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Edit window track views
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Switching track views
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Useful keyboard commands for editing
Figure 6.25 A region
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To move the insertion point to the beginning of the selection, press the
Figure 6.26 Selection Timeline selection Marker
Figure 6.27 The Selection has been
Figure 6.28 The
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Figure 6.29 The
Figure 6.30 The Selection has been
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To align the sync point of a region to a timeline position, select the Grabber
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Capturing Regions
Figure 6.31 A selection
Figure 6.32
Figure 6.33 The
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Separating Regions
Figure 6.34
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Figure 6.35
Editing
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Using the Separation Grabber
Figure 6.36 Choosing the Separation Grabber
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Figure 6.37 Separation Grabber tool to separate a selection
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Overlapping Regions
Figure 6.38 Three regions, each brought to region, so each overlaps
Figure 6.39 Three regions, each sent to the back before the
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Figure 6.40 of three regions has been sent to the back so that region after both overlap
Figure 6.41 of three regions has been brought to the front so that it overlaps both the
Sync points
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Figure 6.42 Setting a
Figure 6.43 The sync
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Nudging Regions
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Figure 6.44 Setting the
Figure 6.45
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6.6 Region Editing commands
Shift Region
Figure 6.46 The Shift
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Duplicate Region
Figure 6.47 select a region using the Selector tool, then choose Duplicate from
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Figure 6.49 The before the region that
Figure 6.50 Select a region so that it goes
Figure 6.51 Click on the region using the three before the previously
Repeat Region
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Figure 6.52
Locking Regions
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Figure 6.53 An
Editing
Figure 6.54 A
Mute Region
Quantize to Grid
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Grouping Regions
Groups to gather useful sets of regions together so
that you can move them
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Figure 6.55
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Figure 6.56
Figure 6.57 region group together
Figure 6.58
Figure 6.59
Figure 6.60
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Figure 6.61 Preparing to
Figure 6.62 A multitrack grouping regions across
Figure 6.63 Selecting a
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Figure 6.64 multitrack region group region group icon in the
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Figure 6.65 multitrack region group
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Start Marker that you can move
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The Dynamic Transport has a separate Play
Editing
Using Dynamic Transport mode
Figure 6.66 When Dynamic Transport to reveal the Play Start
How the Play Start Marker works
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Figure 6.67 Play
Figure 6.68 Dragging the Play Start Marker to
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Keyboard shortcuts for Dynamic Transport mode
Temporarily linking the Timeline and Edit Selections
Recording in Dynamic Transport mode ently of the Timeline selection, using the Play Start Marker as a manual preroll
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Setting Selection Start and End in Dynamic Transport mode
not
Auditioning loops in Dynamic Transport mode
Preferences for Dynamic Transport
Figure 6.69 Selecting Timeline selection in the
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Figure 6.70 Selecting
Figure 6.71 Setting
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Figure 6.72
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Editing
Figure 6.73 The
Figure 6.74 The Alternate Playlists
Choosing the takes
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Figure 6.75 Copy Selection To Main Playlist
When you hear a section on a Comp lane that you prefer, you can select this
Figure 6.76 Selection
Playlists Track View
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Figure 6.77 The Track
Figure 6.78 The
Figure 6.79 another region to the
Copy Selection commands to the main playlist to construct the best combination of selections from the
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Figure 6.80
Figure 6.81
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Figure 6.82 clicking the Playlist name
Figure 6.83
6.9 Compacting audio files
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7 Mixing
7.1 Introduction
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Check your monitoring
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Choose your monitoring levels
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Line up any connected analog equipment
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reference level, such as
Figure 7.1
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Figure 7.2
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Figure 7.3 the Signal Generator
VU meters, operating levels, and headroom
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Figure 7.4 Playing back test tone from a mono file to unity gain via a Mono
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Figure 7.5 Calibrating a
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Figure 7.6 Playing back the metering varying
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Metering in Pro Tools
to
fader
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Figure 7.7
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Figure 7.8 playing back from a simultaneously to a Mono
Fat meters
Figure 7.9
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TL MasterMeter oversampling metering
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Figure 7.10 hitting full scale –
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Phase measurements
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Figure 7.11 Phase
Phase Meter
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Leq(A) Meter
the true weighted average
Figure 7.12 Deselecting
Level Meters
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value of
of
Audio track faders
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Master Faders
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Figure 7.13 A typical
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Figure 7.14
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Figure 7.15 prevent clipping, as has
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Level balancing
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percussion instruments such as a triangle or tambourine playing at a very
Panorama (Pan) positions
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Till the Sun Turns Black
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Panning synthesized and sampled sounds
Pan laws
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De-essing
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Creating dynamics within the mix
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Frequency balancing
Musically
Technically
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Reverb
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Delay effects
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Noise reduction
Noise gates and expanders
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Pitch and time correction and manipulation
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Reamping and amplifier simulators
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m
StroboSoft tuner
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the one available from
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Figure 7.16 StroboSoft
Figure 7.17 StroboSoft
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Speaker Soak using the TD-1
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Reamping using the TD-1
Figure 7.18 The
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7.4 Working on your mix session
Housework
Track ordering
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forget that you can easily save
alternative versions of any Pro Tools session
if
Removing unwanted sounds
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Sorting the Tempos
Marking the sections
Grouping tracks
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Figure 7.19
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Figure 7.21 A single in turn are controlling
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Edit Window Mix Automation
Figure 7.22 Automation
Figure 7.23
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Figure 7.24 A Track at the top left of each
Figure 7.25
Figure 7.26
Figure 7.27 An Controller lanes for on the
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button
Figure 7.28
7.5 The final mix
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Then, you might take a break for half an hour or so before coming back to
Figure 7.29 Pro Tools the volume automation
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a
Figure 7.30 Manually trimming a selection of
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To Dither or not to Dither – that is the question!
Mix bus compression
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Little Lovin’ 344
Safe Trip Home
Just A
Mixing
Back to Black
24 Hours
A Plea for Sanity
7.6 Summary
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Appendix
Summing to talk about!
The rise of the analog summing mixer in a land of digital audio workstations
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Summing to talk about!
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Summing to talk about
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Index
A Absolute grid mode, 244–245 Absolute reference markers, 76 Aeolian mode, 104 After Fader Listen (AFL) mode, solo level setting for, 66 After Playback scroll option, 57 Altiverb, 323 Amp Farm, 327 Amplifier simulator, 327–328 Amplitube, 327 Analog equipment, lining up connected, 289–290 Analog summing mixer, 349 Analog waveform, reconstruction of, 302 Antares Harmony Engine, 325 Aphex Aural Exciter, 326 Audio Audio Ease, 317, 323 Audio track, 89, 133 Audio Track RecordLock option, 224 AudioSuite Gain plug-in, 319–320 AudioSuite Signal Generator plug-in, 291–292 Auditioning audio, 14–16 Auditioning loops, 132, 274 Auto low latency, 223 Auto reset, 307 Automatic delay compensation, 10, 45–46, 123–125, 189 Automation lanes, 141–142 Autopanner, 316
Auto-Tune, 325 Auto-update active configuration option, 20 Auxiliary input channel, 299, 311, 334–335 Auxiliary input fader, 312
B Bars and beats, 73, 134, 138 Bar/beat markers, 76, 94 Batch Fades window, 230 Beat clock Beat detective, 73 BeyerDynamic DT100 models, 182 Big Bottom, 326 Block view, 247 Bomb Factory Breathing effect, 319 Bus monitor, 313
C Center Playhead scroll option, 58 Channel faders, 14, 288, 309–310, 335, 349 Channels, 61 Chord change dialog, 49 Chord symbols, 75 Chords ruler, 48–49, 75 Chromatic scale vs. diatonic scale, 104 Clear Special commands, 137 Clef setting, 167 Click track, 77–79 Clip events browser, oversampled, 304–305
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Color Palette, 18 Commands keyboard focus, 60 Compact layout window configuration, 22 Compressors, 318–319 Conductor rulers, 48, 74–77 Continuous scroll option, 57–58 Controller chasing, 142–143 Convolution reverb, 323 Copy Selection commands, 279–280 Copy Special commands, 137 Correlation meter, 298, 305–306 Crest factors (Peak-to-average ratios), 293, 302 Crystallizer, 327 Cubase software, 53 Cue mixes. See Headphone mixes Cursor values display, 45 Cut Special commands, 137 Cut Time dialog, 99
D D/A converters, 301, 344 De-essing, 319–320 Default solo mode, 64 Delay compensation, 189–193 Delay compensation engine, 10, 125, 190, 192 Delay effects, 323 Delay indicator, 124–125 Destructive Record mode, 199, 203, 206–207 DestructivePunch mode, 200, 211, 218 Diatonic scale vs. chromatic scale, 104 Diatonic transposition, 103, 105–108 Digidesign, 74, 303, 308, 311, 326, 349 DigiRack Phase Scope, 305 DigiRack plug-ins, 326 DigiRack Signal Generator, 298–299 Digital signal processing (DSP) delays, 123, 188–190, 212 Display quantization, 174–176 Display settings
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Dither, 344 Drum notation, 168 Duplicate notes, 135 Duplicate region, 262 Dynamic transport mode, 270 Dynamically allocated voicing, 63
E Echoes, 323, 327 Edit Insertion Follows Scrub/Shuttle option, 29 Edit lock region, 264–265 Edit menu commands, 227–239 See Strip Silence Edit modes, 37–47, 239–245 Edit selection, 42–43, 54–55 Edit window, 36–37, 332, 339–342
Index
Elastic audio, 107–108 EQ filters, 320 Events field, 304 Expanders, 324 External mixing, 288 External monitoring, 288
F Fast Forward/Rewind, 26 Fat meters, 300 Fender Rhodes, 325 Frequency balancing
G Gain plug-in, 319–320 Grabber tool, 40, 138, 141, 154, 156, 171 Graphic tempo editor, 85 Grid command, 145 Grid control, 46 Grid display, 46 Grid mode, 37, 243 Grid size, 243 Grid values, 46, 135, 145 Group list keyboard focus, 61 Group settings pop-up selector, 32–33 Grouping regions, 266 Grouping tracks, 334 Guitar amplifier, 327–328, 330–331 Guitar Rig, 327
H H3000 Factory, 326 Hardware buffer size, 8–9, 189 Hardware setup dialog, 11–12 Harmonizer, 325 Harmony process, 325 Headphone mixes, 184–187 Headroom, 292–293, 301, 310 Heal Separation command, 256 Helicon voice processor, 325
I I/O controls, in edit window, 24 I/O selectors, 34
I/O setup dialog, 12–14 Insert Silence command, in shuffle mode, 236 Insert Time dialog, 99 Insertion Follows Playback, 26, 43 Inserts, 33 Instrument tracks, 126–131 Ionian mode, 104
K Key Change dialog, 102–103 Key signature editor, 48 Key signature ruler, 48, 101–102 Key signatures, 101–108 Keyboard commands K-System RMS meters, 301
L Latch forward/rewind, 26 Leq(A) meter, 307 Level meters, 307–308 Line6 Echo Farm plug-in, 323 Linearity Display Mode, 91–96 Link timeline, 42 Link track, 43 Lissajous figures, 305 Location indicators, 43–44 Locking regions, 264 Loop playback mode, 274 Loop record mode, 199 Loop recording audio, 207–209 Loop recording MIDI, 131–132 Loudness, 301, 345
M Mackie Big Knob, 310 Maestro Echoplex, 323 Manual delay compensation, 11–12
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Markers, 76 Markers ruler, 48 Martin HD28 acoustic guitar, 321 Master faders, 288, 290, 294, 297–299, 309 Master views, 247 Melodyne, 325 Meter ruler, 48 Meter value, 79 Metering, 297, 301 Microphone preamplifier, 288, 330 MIDI
MIDI editors, 150–163
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MIDI notes MIDI tracks Millennia TD-1 Twin Direct Recording Channel. See TD-1 Mirrored MIDI editing, 42, 136 Mix bus compression, 344 Mix session, 332 marking sections, 334 sorting tempos, 334 Mix window, 32 Mixing, 341–342 Mode buttons, 41–43 Monitoring levels, 289 Monitoring system, checking for, 286–287 Multieffects processor, 326–327 Multiple assignments Multiple track outputs, assigning, 34–35
Index
Musical Instrument Digital Interface. See MIDI Mute buttons, 155–156, 337 Mute frees assigned voice, 64 Mute region, 265
N Nearfield monitors, 286, 289 Neve 8816 Summing Mixer, 351 Noise gates, 324, 333 Noise reduction, 324 Notation tools, 169 Note chasing, 142–143 Nudge control, 46 Nudge display, 46 Nudge values, 46, 135 Numeric keypad, 28–32
O Object grabber tool, 40 Operating levels, nominal, 289–290, 292–293, 296 Optical S/P DIF format, 14
P Page scroll option, 57 Pan laws, 318 Panning, 315–317 Panorama (Pan) positions, 315 Paste Special submenu commands, 137 Peak field, 304 Pencil Tool, 41 Phase correlation, 305–306 Phase measurements, 305 Phase meter, 306–307 Phase scope metering, 298–299 Pitch “n” time, 326 Pitch correction Pitch doctor plug-in, 325 Pitch shifting, 108, 326 Pitch transposition, elastic audio region-based, 107–108 Pitched tracks, 104 Play Start Marker, 26–27, 271–273 Play Start Marker Follows Playback, 26, 43
Play Start Marker Follows Timeline Selection, 27 Playback cursor locator, 58–59 Playback engine, 8–10 Playlists, 276–277 Playlists Track View, 278–279 Plug-ins, opening sessions with, 18 Pop-up selectors, 12 Pre Fader Listen (PFL), 14 Pro Tools 48-Bit Mixer, 311 Pro Tools Pulses per quarter note (PPQN), 91, 134 Punch recording Punch-in and punch-out
Q Quantize to Grid command, 265 QuickPunch mode, 200, 210–211, 213 QuickStart dialog, 17–18
R Real Time AudioSuite (RTAS) plug-in, 8, 188, 303 Reamping, 327–328
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Index
Record mode, 129–130, 199–200
S
Record safe mode, 200 Recording and playback Recording audio, 197–201
Region Editing commands, 261–270 Region List Keyboard Focus, 60 Regions, 252 Regions List, 253 Relative grid mode, 244 Repeat region, 263 Repeat to Fill Selection command, 230 Reserve voices, 27 Restore Last Selection command, 229 Reverb, 322 RMS metering, 301, 308 Roland MKS80, 111, 114 Room acoustics, 287 Ruler and tickbased time, 74
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Sample-based audio, 89–90 Sample-based time, 74 Score editor, 163–178 Scrolling behavior, 58 Scrolling windows, 57–58 Scrub tool, 41 Scrub/shuttle mode, 30 Scrubbing, 28 Selector tool, 39–40 Sends, 33–34 Separate Region command, 254–255 Separation Grabber tool, 255 Shift region, 261 Shuffle mode, 37, 239–240 Shuttle lock mode, 30–31 Sibilant frequencies, 319–320 Slave track, 335–338 Slip mode, 37, 239 Smart tool, 40–41 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), 74, 84, 240–241 Softube Vintage Amp Room, 327 Solo buttons, 155–156, 337 Solo in Place (SIP), 64 Solo mode, 64, 66 Sound pressure level (SPL), 289 Sounds Speaker Soak Spot mode, 37, 240–243 SSL AWS 900 series, 182 Stereo mastering recorder, 343 Stereo mixes, 305, 316–317 Stereo panorama, 315, 317
Index
Stop keys, 28 Strip Silence, 231 StroboSoft tuner, 328–329 StroboStomp Pedal, 328 Sub counter time scale, 77 Summing mixer, 286, 310, 313–314, 349–351 Surround sound, 4 Sync points, 258 Synchronization controls, 25 System Exclusive (SysEx) data, 116
T Tab to transients button, 42 TCE Edit to Timeline Selection, 237 TD-1, 330 features, 330 Speaker Soak using, 330 stage, 330 Tempo edit density (Dens) selector, 88 Tempo, 81 Tempo ruler, 48 Test tone Tick-based audio, 90–91 Time lock region, 264 Time operations, 97–101 Time scales, 77 Time signature, 79 Time Stamp Selected command, 241
Timebase rulers, 74–77 Time-division multiplexing (TDM) plug-ins, 191, 193, 325–326 Timeline Insertion Follows Playback, 58 Timeline selection, 27, 270, 272 TL MasterMeter, oversampling metering, 302–303 Toolbar display and controls, rearranging, 36–37 Toolbar zoom buttons, 38 Track compensation indicator, 124, 126 Track compositing, 275–281 Track position numbers, 68 Track timebase, changing, 88 TrackPunch mode, 200, 211, 214–218 Tracks, 61 grouping, 334 input selector, 34 output selector, 34 Transformer mixing, 351 Transient peak levels, 292 Transport RecordLock option, 224 Transport window, 64–67 Transposing instruments, 172–173 Trimmer tool, 39, 156, 169
U Ultra-Channel, 326 Unity gain level, 297 Universe view, 23–24 Use separate play, 28 User interface, 17–24 User Time Stamp, 241–242
V VCA channel fader, 335 VCA Groups, 334 VCA Master tracks, 335
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Virtual instrument, recording audio from, 132–133 Voice borrowing, 62 Voice limits, 62 Voice modeling techniques, 325 Voiceable tracks, 61–64 Voices, playback and recording, 61–64 Voltage controlled amplifier. See VCA Volume automation view, 246 Volume controls, on self-powered monitors, 288 VU meters, 292, 308
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Window display settings, 22–23 Window layout configuration, 23
X X-Form plug-in, 237, 326
Y Yamaha DX7, 111, 119 Yamaha DX7II, 111, 114 Yamaha KX88, 111, 114 Yamaha TX816, 114, 118
W
Z
Waveform view, 246–247 Window configuration list, 19 Window configurations, 18–20
Zoom presets, 38 Zoom Toggle, 41–42, 54–57 Zoom Toggle Follows Edit selection, 56 Zoomer tool, 39