John, Once again, if you're using Pro Tools HD, use Shuttle Mode under the numeric keypad options in the Preference window and you'll be able to quickly scrub audio with the num pad, make a selection and edit on the fly.
Slau On Feb 29, 2012, at 7:53 PM, John Boral wrote: > Hey all, thanks so much for the great replies. Slau, no, I can't use a > control surface in a live club situation. These are large venues 5000 > + people and usually 5 engineers. I'm required to be quick while bands > are setting up which is why my posts keep talking about doing things > in a fast way. I'm trying not to interact as much as I can so I can > quickly move through tracks and select them. Chuck's idea is the one > I'd love but it's not working for me. Chuck, I had my GF resize the > window many different ways but unfortunately VO is not catching your > selection idea. Again, it seems however the window is resized when I > press VO space on a track it just beeps. Slau, I'm not sure what you > mean about scrubbing through a track but I can't use a control surface > until I'm home and then I can use a motor mix which I hope someone out > there can let me know if that will do the job. It worked great in PT > 5. Gord and Chris, the Protools is busy message is totally nuts. It > doesn't stop until I actually force quit and restart the machine. I > did try turning VO on and off but nothing. I have 2 machines, 1 with > Lion 7.2 and 1 with SL 6.8. They are both new 8 and 12 core machines > and the same behavior with everything happens on both. I'm using PT > HD9 in case anyone thinks that could be giving me trouble. Lots of ppl > talk about making sure the mouse is routed correctly but when I have > someone look at where my cursor is many times it's nowhere near where > it should be. For example, when I'm in a track list VO is reading > stuff to me that the mouse is not even close to. I do rout the mouse > to VO and tried VO to mouse but it seems many locations don't move > together. I've tried multiple ways of cursor tracking on and off and > it's also not all of the time. Our ideas here seem to be that VO goes > out of a window sometimes while interacting and the mouse isn't able > to get to it.
