Here is my question about ProTools.
Really, is it worth my investment? Here's the thing... I have a mid 2010
white 13 inch Macbook. It's not a Pro, it's just stocked original white.
My thing is, as you all probably know, these systems only have one external
audio port. That one port serves as a line in, or! as a line out, depending
on your settings in system preferences. This means Somehow I need to have a
pair of headphones plugged in so I can monitor audio, especially when doing
vocals. OK, no problem, boom, headphones're plugged in. Well, now I wanna
plug in my mixer so I can get audio out of the mixer into the macbook.
Well, crap! I can't! I already have something plugged into my only port.
My headphones. OK, well, run the audio from the macbook out and into the
board then monitor it with your headphones on the board, not on the
macbook... well, that's all great in all, but how am I gonna send signal out
the audio port on the macbook and send signal into! the port. You can't
have it both ways. The port is either/or, not both. I honestly wonder,
being I was going to go into audio production and am going back to school to
go into that field, I'm very convinced maybe I made a mistake asking my
church for the macbook. Maybe what I needed was either an IMac, or better
yet, an MBP, not just an MB. This way I'd have two audio jacks. I know
it's really hard without you all looking at my mixer to know if maybe we
could set this up differently, plus this is getting a bit OT from Voiceover,
so I don't wanna flood the list with this thread, nor highjack it, so I'm
asking all further responses please come off list to me. My e-mail address
is as follows:
[email protected]
alternatively, if that doesn't work, then try me at:
[email protected]
If you think it would be easier to chat me on Skype, that's fine, my contact
is:
twinklesfriend2007
I do use Facetime.
You need to add:
[email protected]
I also do use google Talk with my above gmail address, though I'm hardly on
there.
I'm also available if anyone would like to discuss my future possibilities
via phone, although I'd rather not give my number out publicly on list, but
if you write me off list, I'll give it to ya.
I just need to know where to proceed. I feel so bad that my priest, Fr.
Steve, donated this thing to me, yet, I feel I'm just using the macbook kind
of as a toy. It's time that I take things to the next level. I've played
with voiceover a lot since April, I've obviously become very! proficient
with the Mac, for what it's worth. I almost feel ready to make it my
primary system. I just now need to know the next step.
Obviously I've done a fair amount with Garage Band, but I've really not
played much with Pro Tools. At least not enough to form an opinion.
I'm also caught between that, Logic, or QBase.
My best of me is saying ProTools, but I just wanna be sure, as if I invest
several hundred dollars in this, I want to be certained that it really is
worth my time to save up for it.
I open myself to talk to anyone on this list or off that you may could refer
me to, but, I almost wonder if it may be better to talk to someone who not
only's used Protools, but has used it extensively, not in the old days of
Outspoken, but in the now days of Voiceover. This way I truely can get my
questions answered. I went with Ben bloomgren who's also on this list, to
my local music store, and Ben will tell you the same thing here as he was
standing right there with me... he and I went in the recording department,
and talked to a guy who's name neither Ben nor I will reveal, for his
protection, but, I had him turn on voiceover on the Mac they had in the
room, and I tried looking at ProTools 9. This guy, I know he was doing
this, as I am not a total. I have some usable vision, though not much...
Every time that I would try moving around in ProTools to see how it behaved,
he refused to let me and reached up to the control surface and turned down
the master volume. I normally have balls, but this time, I said nothing. I
was too hurt that he would treat Ben and I that way to do much of anything.
I was totally in shock. This is why I'd rather speak to someone who
actually knows what they're half way doing, that I truely could trust who
would not try to purposefully lead me away from my dreams.
My thing too is I cannot afford a Mac, not even the difference to take this
one back and get a Pro.
the only reason I have a Macbook is because Fr. Steve was so generous out of
the goodness of his heart to fundraise through the church to get me one for
school. It's about time I start really putting it to use and reaching for
my long-term goal.
Can any of you all help me with making the best choice? I also have a 10
channel Yamaha Mixer that ran me about 100 bucks, and a studioware Fantom
powered condincer Samsung microphone with both 20DB gain as well as a low
frequency pass filter, plus then my Yamaha keyboard. So, I just dont'
know... do I have enough hardware to even think about getting protools?
Then I just have a 40 dollar el cheapo pare of Plantronics headphones.
Yeah, it's a full headset with microphone, but I don't use the mike as it's
not good enough for studio quality.
What do you all suggest?
Chris.
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