Navigating Pro Tools

$1,500.00

Are you going to school and need audio accessibility training operating Pro Tools or Logic?

Vocational direction determines Logic or ProTools. Electronic and midi producers use LOGIC. Engineering, post-production and mixing use Pro Tools (or Reaper). Going to school you will need both.

Current Pro Tools license, iLok if applicable, Mac computer, converter/interface, audio monitors (headphones &/or speakers), microphone, a full-length QWERTY keyboard with a numpad, and a Midi controller.

 

Prerequisites

Proficient with Mac OS and voice over navigation

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Description

Session 1 – Pro Tools Installation and Authorization

  • Run the installers for Pro Tools, plugins, and iLok license manager
  • Pro Tools Setup -set playback engine. Explore and make changes in the start screen. Create a new session
  • Explore file menu
  • Opening and saving sessions

 

Session 2 – Mix Window Overview

  • Track strips, inserts, sends, mute, solo, arm, meters, faders, scribble strips
  • Track show/hide button
  • Track list table
  • Groups list table
  • Explanation of different track types
  • Audio -mono/stereo
  • Aux track -mono/stereo
  • Master track
  • Midi track
  • Instrument track
  • Click track
  • Explore track menu

 

Session 3 – Recording Basics

  • Creating an audio track
  • Arming and disarming track
  • Checking levels
  • Recording the audio 2
  • Playing back
  • Adding and selecting a second track, exploring options menu, and inserting effects
  • How to insert plug-ins
  • Explain in detail the UI layout track and FX routing
  • Route tracks to aux bus
  • Insert FX on aux track

 

Session 4 – Midi and Instrument Tracks

  • Midi basics explained
  • Create an instrument track
  • Instantiate an instrument plug-in
  • Pick an instrument preset
  • Record midi
  • Explore event menu
  • Change tempo
  • Quantize
  • Transpose
  • Single note transposition
  • Change velocity
  • Change note lengths

 

Session 5 – Editing Basics

  • Explore top portion of edit window, edit tool cluster, editing modes explained, counter display cluster, grid
    nudge cluster, transport view cluster
  • Timeline navigation (bars, beats)
  • Making selection in/out, start, end, and length fields markers
  • Exploring edit menu
  • Cut, copy, paste 3
  • Zooming and nudging
  • Explore remainder of edit window
  • Composite playlist takes

 

Session 6 – Working with Imported Audio

  • Importing audio
  • Finding BPM of audio file
  • Using elastic time and pitch
  • Exploring audio suite menu
  • Using audio suite plug-ins

 

Session 7 – Basic Automation

  • Automation modes explained
  • Automate volume/pan, mute/solo
  • Plugin automation
  • Exporting and bouncing -bounce to disk -commit -freeze -export

 

Session 8 – Flo Tools

  • Installing and authorizing Keyboard Maestro
  • Installing Flo Tools
  • Flo Tools key commands

 

Session 9 – Workflow

  • Session organization
  • Grouping tracks
  • Loading and saving track presets
  • Loading and saving session templates
  • Importing session data

 

Session 10 – Tweaking Pro Tools Prefs

  • Miscellaneous, Q and A
  • Tie up any loose ends