Hi Gordon & Slau,
No dance needed just resize the tracks table to the right ending up to
be about 30% wider and they move effortlessly.
The only problem is that sighted assistance is needed to move the
tracks table because the small "gray splitter bar " is not visible yet!
This is not a big issue if you work from PT templates with the table
already resized.
There are other ways to move tracks also.
Below is a old post on tracks.
On 1/6/11, Chuck Reichel <soundpicturerecord...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Scott & List,
I just got this to work in PT 8.1 for reordering tracks in the mix
window..
step #1 Just inter act with the track list table.
step #2 find the track you want to reorder and "mouse down on it.
step 3 using VO move up or down in the track list table till you find
where you want to put it.
Step 4 "mouse up" on the track and bang! its there just below track
you stopped on.
At this point the track you just dropped on to its new position is now
selected, and it has moved below the track your stopped on!
Just another note you do not half to inter act with a track and then
stop interacting with it to select the track.
You can just "Vo space bar" on it.. to select it.
Just use the mac commands for selecting contiguous "Shift click with
actual mouse" or non contiguous "Command click with mouse" items in
this case tracks in the track list in the mix window in PT.
This is going to speed up the work flow immensely!!!
Even with the Control-24 I find my self looking at the track list
table to absolutely verify that the tracks are selected before I make
a group per say..
This keeps the work flow in the track list table!
Your Mileage may vary.
Chuck
On Aug 21, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote:
Hey Gordon,
There are others on the list who have experimented with dragging
tracks within the track list. Chuck will have a particularly
entertaining approach that involves standing on one leg and waving
something or other above one's head. I'll leave that dance to others
to describe. For now, let me just mention that Pro Tools creates new
tracks immediately next to any selected track. In other words, if
you select a track within a series of tracks and create a new track,
it'll appear to the right of the currently selected track.
HTH,
Slau
On Aug 21, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Gordon Kent wrote:
Sometimes when I insert a new track it doesn't go where I expect it
to go. I know we can sort tracks by type, but I have a situation
where I want an instrument track to be placed with some audio
tracks and it is now the last track in the session, after my aux
and master tracks. Is there a way to do this or do I have to
assign the track to a group with other tracks?
Thanks
Gord
-----Original Message----- From: Slau Halatyn
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 8:26 PM
To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Confused about busses/ PT 9 Link about busses.
Hey Gord,
I'm not sure where you're seeing that. When assigning sends or
track outputs to a bus, since any number of tracks can be assigned
to any bus, there's no such thing as "available" or "unavailable."
The only thing I can think of is if an Aux track hasn't been
assigned to an output but then it usually just says, "No Output" or
something like that. If you come across that message again, let us
know so we can figure out where and why you're seeing it. It used
to be that LE systems had way fewer busses than HD systems and if
you were to open such an HD session on an LE system, the higher
busses were inactive but that should no longer really be the case.
Anyway, keep an eye out.
Best,
Slau
On Aug 9, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Gordon Kent wrote:
Thanks. I've been wondering why sometimes you see the message
"busses 32 thru 96 active" or whatever. Does that mean that those
are the ones that are still left unused?
Gord
-----Original Message----- From: Slau Halatyn
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 11:15 PM
To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Confused about busses/ PT 9 Link about busses.
Hey Gordon,
Just to clarify, every Pro Tools session has 128 stereo or 256
mono channels of busses which may or may not be used but are
available for assignment. Further, an auxiliary track is
technically known as an "auxiliary input" so it's source doesn't
necessarily have to be a bus. You can have an aux input that gets
its feed from your interface as well. Plus, of course, busses can
feed busses. For example, you can have a bus for several soprano,
alto, tenor and bass tracks and have all of those 4 aux tracks
output to yet another bus for, say, an entire choir and put that
on one fader. Of course, you probably already figured that from
prior experience ;)
Best,
Slau
On Aug 8, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Gordon Kent wrote:
Thanks. There's a lot of good stuff up there. I guess the main
concept I need to get used to is that the aux tracks you create
are actually assigned to the available busses and act as a
gateway to those busses, rather than interacting with them
directly. In Sonar, you actuaslly create the output busses
themselves as needed. I certainly am familiar with working with
busses, sends, inserts, etc. Back in the day I had patch bays
with over 200 patch points, I sure don't miss that.
Gord
-----Original Message----- From: Chuck Reichel
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 6:21 PM
To: Pro Tools Accessibility
Subject: Re: Confused about busses/ PT 9 Link about busses.
Hi List,
Heres a great little article on PT 9 busses.
Enjoy
http://protoolstraining.com/ProMedia-Blog/Tip-and-Trick/lets-all-get-on-the-bus.html?utm_content=chuck2sticks%40gmail.com&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Pro%20Tools%20Training%3A%20Bus%20Routing%20in%20Pro%20Tools%20%26%20New%20Mixing%20Classes%20Announcedcontent
On Aug 5, 2011, at 4:26 PM, Gordon Kent wrote:
Hi chuck:
Thanks for getting back to me. I had had him check for that
since we have it in the lt version, but it didn't seem to be
there, at least it wasn't in the output tab of the i/o setup
window. I'll have him give it another look, maybe it is in a
different place.
Gord
-----Original Message----- From: Chuck Reichel
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 10:49 AM
To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Confused about busses
Hi Gordon,
Here is the solution to your friends I/O set up getting messed up.
Tell your friend with the "full tdm system" before he opens your
session to go and make sure to uncheck "Sessions overwrite
current I/
O Setup"
Have Him Follow this path find the set up menu; next find the I/o;
open the I/O window, then find option for "Sessions overwrite
current
I/O Setup"
which is located near the bottom of the PT I/O set up window.
MAKE SURE that " Sessions overwrite current I/O Setup when
opened;
is unchecked " to prevent your session that your sending to Him
changing his I/O.
Call me for further details if you want.
YMMV
GOD Bless
Chuck Reichel
954-742-0019
www.SoundPictureRecording.com
On Aug 4, 2011, at 11:38 PM, Gordon Kent wrote:
Hi:
Usually when I set up a track in PT, I just assign the output
to a physical hardware output. How can I use all those busses
they give you and where do you go to route their outputs to
the appropriate hardware? When I send a PT session I've done
to someone I do a lot of work with who has a full tdm system,
it messes up all his i/o routing. I figured that if I just
route all my tracks to a master bus instead of hardware, it
might help the situation. Any ideas about this would be
welcome.
Gord
-----Original Message----- From: Slau Halatyn
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 8:06 AM
To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: From joy to frustration!
Hi Gazza,
Use Command-Option-1 to use Commands focus mode. There are two
other modes which are, if I remember correctly, Audio Regions
and Groups focus mode and they are Command-Option-2 and
Command- Option-3 respectively. There's also a keyboard focus
button right in the window but, if the tracks list isn't
displayed, you can't access that button. what Kevin mentioned
about the Mix window display buttons should help you get it
to be visible. I think there's also a menu item to display
the tracks list.
HTH,
Slau
On Jul 12, 2011, at 3:49 AM, Gary Readfern-Gray wrote:
Hi Listers,
Well, I bought a mac about a year ago because I wanted to
start using Pro Tools, but when the accessible version finally
arrived, I found getting around a session so clunky and
horrible to use, I bought Logic and have been using that, I
have a little sight so I was stumbling along with it.
Then, after months and months of using Logic, I come across
Keven's tutorial and discover that, once you've got more than
one track in the session, the track list is usable by VO and
that's what I wanted to do initally, quickly find a track,
mute, solo and arm.
However, whilst I can select the tracks in the track list,
Shift m r and s are not working for me regardless of what I
seem to try.
So I googled around and found that this seems to have
something to do with keyboard focus mode? I'm using PT 8.4 by
the way, and these keys apparently are available in 8.4?
So, How, in the name of sanity, do I get that functionality
to work where I can sit in the track list and mute, solo and
arm and unarm?
My other question is, How do I get the track list to be
displayed in the mix window? PT is only letting me cursor
over there if I'm in the edit window but Kevin seemed to be
able to get there whilst in the mix window?
Finally, for now, what's the quickest way to get to the track
list? I'm often using vo i to bring up the items list and
typing table to filter the list and selecting track list
table, however if you've got a gazillion tracks in your
session, it takes a while for the itme list to pop up. Any
thoughts on that one?
Thanks
Gazza
Chuck Reichel
954-742-0019
www.SoundPictureRecording.com
Chuck Reichel
954-742-0019
www.SoundPictureRecording.com
Chuck Reichel
954-742-0019
www.SoundPictureRecording.com
