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I’ve never answered a question here before. But as a Pro Tools veteran of 21+ years who’s worked sessions for major artists from coast to coast, and as a former contributing editor for Recording Magazine, I feel pretty qualified to answer this one.
First of all, many people will be quick to tell you that Pro Tools is the industry standard because it was the ...
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Yes, I have been using Mercurial (hg) with Logic Pro for a while now and with great results. Also coming from a software development background I find the main benefit to be the comments for each changeset and the ability to go back and branch from an earlier version to try out alternate production or composition techniques.
As mentioned you will likely pay ...
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Set up a compressor on the stereo track (PT's own will do). Send the vocal track through a bus(mono) into the sidechain input of the compressor. Make sure to activate the sidechain, it's the knob with the key on it in the Sidechain section of the plugin.
Experiment with the knobs in order to get it to sound smooth.
Depends on what you are working on ...
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That particular one will work, no problem, per http://www.motu.com/techsupport/technotes/can-i-use-motu-hardware-in-pro-tools-software
I recommend that unit as well. I've used many, and they have never let me down.
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Does this help you?
To create an audio CD that can be played in any standard audio CD player:
Export your tracks from ProTools as AIFF or WAV files (i.e. "Bounce to disk"). Save them to a folder in a known location, such as the Desktop.
Launch iTunes from the Dock (if not on the Dock, you'll find it in the Applications folder on your hard ...
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According to their website, you can.
Your hardware should work with it. On the Hardware Options page they say:
Third-party audio interfaces
With Pro Tools, you get the flexibility of using the software with practically any audio interface you already have or want. For ultimate quality and performance, choose an Avid interface or bundled ...
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One very simple technique we use is to colour-code all tracks, which does make it very easy to see which are drums, for example, or guitar. By using say Red for drums, green for guitar, blue for vocals, and then shades of the primary colour for detail (eg pink for cymbal, deep red for kick drum)
It doesn't reduce the number of tracks, but it groups them ...
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You want to use automation. There's a drop down menu on each of the channel strips that will usually read "off". Pick one of the automation modes, probably "latch" (or "write"). There's an explanation of the modes here.
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Those MOTU units are brilliant. We have loads of them running everything from HUI from our SSLs to MIDI Keyboard controllers.
You should be able to just select the desired ports in ProTools straight away. If any problems, you can use MIDI STUDIO on your mac os (sorry not sure if you are mac or win user) from within protools and do the setup graphically, ...
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As with any DAW, export it to a stereo .WAV file (in Pro Tools I believe this is called "bounce to disk", and then burn that file to an audio CD in your favorite CD burning program.
TomWij gave a great answer using Pro Tools and iTunes but this can be done with most any DAW and burning software.
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Their approach to building the entire DAW system was, from the outset, very different. And I believe that's what set them apart and got them entrenched in the professional audio scene.
You couldn't, for the longest time, buy a version of ProTools that just ran on whatever computer you had in your studio. Instead, you bought rack-mounted boxes from ProTools ...
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Specifically Pro Tools was very early on the market with professional level products, ie things you could record 24 bit on 32 channels or more on. This meant loads of studios invested in a Pro Tools system for those who needed to do that kind of editing. And that meant people learned to use Pro Tools because that was what available at the studio when they ...
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Your top choice for truly free (ie nonpropietary, and no license fee) is Ardour. Ardour is not incredibly simple to get setup, especially with VST support. It's not super difficult, but before you try it, I'd recomend reading about how to install it, add VST support and also about JACK, which it uses as its audio engine.
You should also take a look at ...
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Although I highly discourage doing this - EVER - in a live recording, as with most problems there is a suitable solution.
The Pitch Shift plugin that comes with Pro Tools can do cent-based shifts in pitch. You can use automation to gradually increase the pitch as the choir's pitch decreases.
If you are not happy with the quality the pitch shift plugin gets ...
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Here's three good free sources:
"Official" Pro Tools Forums
Avid's Pro Tools channel on YouTube
www.protoolsguides.com
If you're willing to pay you could also check out the groove3 videos. I haven't used them myself but I've heard they're good.
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Re: M-Audio Keystudio
It's a nice controller keyboard. I don't know which one you have (no. of keys). I've got the small 49i and used it mainly as a quick way of setting up a keyboard to my Mac to try out virtual synthesizers or recording small musical snippets. I've never used it together with Pro Tools, but I can say that it's definitely compatible with ...
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I haven't ever used a KeyStudio before but I presume it's a MIDI controller that'd work with any DAW. This answer assumes that is the case (the website seems to suggest this but I'm never quite sure.
Any DAW will be at least fairly complex. On the Mac, GarageBand seems to be a popular choice for starting out. It was my first real DAW, and through it I ...
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make sure your audio track's input is set to analogue 1&2,
that your track is set to record (obviously),
and also make sure you follow the steps that the previous commenter mentioned.
Don't use instrument tracks for audio either.
Those are meant for midi so that you don't have to bus your midi track to an audio track anymore and so it's all in one track ...
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The MBox mini seems to have a mix control knob. Try tweaking the position of the knob to see if the signal you're hearing is routed through the interface directly or if it is already routed through ProTools. If the knob is turned all the way to 'P/B' and you're no longer hearing the guitar, then your ProTools is not configured properly. Have you checked ...
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I suggest returning the Macbook Air and getting a Macbook with Firewire. USB interfaces will give you latency when monitoring the recording signal, unless you have one that allows for hardware monitoring. (Perhaps someone else can speak about this. My interface is supposed to have this, but I've never used the feature. I also don't know what will work with ...
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This may be a case of differing Pan laws between your software and theirs. Are any tracks panned and are these the sounds which appear louder?
It may be worth asking them which Panning law their software was set to and check either your options or DAW documentation to find out which one you are set to.
Here's a quick rundown on a Logic example: ...
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I know this is pretty old but you will need to go and update your version of Reason to 3.0.5. Per the proppellerhead website:
This is a mac-only update designed to bring Intel Mac compatibility to Reason. This update also includes the latest version of ReWire, so non-Intel mac users still benefit a lot from this update. With the new ReWire, Reason's sample ...
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I have heard that UA was demonstrating the new Apollo interface using a Macbook Air with Thunderbolt, and an external Thunderbolt audio drive. This would be an amazing setup if it works like they say, however you'd have to wait for the Apollo to be officially released.
If not that route, I'd suggest the same as the above--take the Air back and get a laptop ...
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@neilfein is correct in his comment. The mistake you have made is to set send to to be Xpand2. This should in fact be set to Oxygen 25. This is because Pro Tools needs to know where to receive input from, and where to send output to, in terms of your keyboard (i.e., it needs two-way communication).
In a USB-based keyboard, this doesn't really make ...
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The effective answer is, it depends which plug-in!
Check out this article. If you're working with DSP-based TDM plug-ins, it looks like you can use these from within Logic, for example. It even sounds like Logic will import the plug-in settings across from Pro Tools.
Sadly, if you're working with the more common RTAS or AS format plug-ins, then you ...
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I use Soundflower for routing the awesome instruments from Logic into Live. Usually, I just setup a MainStage for it, since I don't need any of the DAW overhead. You can do the same thing for ProTools to Logic, I believe.
Soundflower is a virtual patch bay within your computer that shows up as new outputs and inputs. I like it because it is fairly seamless ...
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I just copy and paste them,
but as for how you are trimming:
make sure that it's set to "grid" in the top left hand corner.
that way it will align everything to the grid automatically.
You will also have to set your grid to samples instead of bars/beats and to what kind of beats you need to adjust to (1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, etc) if you haven't already.
It's ...
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I'm not a Pro Tools user but I've used a similar technique in other DAWs (GarageBand, Reaper, Live).
If the sample is not an even measure length:
Trim the recording (or add silence to it) until it's lined up exactly with whatever bar/beat division you want. In some DAWs this is pretty straightforward, in some you may have to resample. Turn on ...
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if you don't have automated faders
you can adjust the volume in another way.
It depends on if we're talking about midi volume or audio,
but the answer for both can be found in the same place.
Go to the actual track.
look to the left of where it shows your inputs and outputs
there's a button that usually says "notes" (if it doesn't just look for the big ...
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