Hi Chris, Find the document called "Intro to Pro Tools." I'm using Snow Leopard and it's in the following directory: Macintosh HD>Applications>Digidesign>Documentation>Pro tools. Open the file and do a search for "aux," in other words, type Command-f and do a standard search. You should get about 4 results. Move to the Outline area and navigate to the second entry. Stop interacting with the Outline and move to the left. You'll find a description of auxiliary inputs.
Auxiliary inputs are just like any auxiliary inputs on an analog console but they're more versatile because they can instantly take their source from a bus. Hopefully this will get you started. Slau On Mar 29, 2012, at 9:24 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > I don't expect you all to help me much until I've done a thorough read on > this topic, and frankly, that's fair. I'll come back when I have red and > need things more clarified, but can someone show me on my Pro tools DVD where > in the documentation I need to go to read up on what an auxiliary track is? > I'm just not getting the whole concept of a aux, a send, receive, and a bus > is? > > I kind a get it, but not really. Here's what I'd say in my own words. Maybe > you all can help me. If I want help here, I need to not just say I think I > get something a move on. How can you all help me, if I don't at least work > with you all and try!? > > So, my understanding, with that in mind, of an aux track or is that my first > misatke right there, it's not a track, it's a send? Anyway, is, it's used > for routing certain tracks, be them audio, or midi through another empty > track which is specifically used more for global processwing? So like, if I > had say, a music track, then I had 3 singers that came in my studio to dubb > their vocals... Rather than taking say, both the females, and processing > them the same exact way on various inserts individually, I could route them > through an AUX track, then go down to that AUX track and on insert A, I may > add some say... oh... I dono, let's just for sake, sake compression dynamics. > Now, because they are both routed to that AUX track, the effects now are > gonna be applied to both the female tracks at the same time. > > Am I getting this correctly, or, honestly, no? Not exactly. > > You're looking at me I'm sure saying, no, not even close. Chris, you need to > go read. I know I do! I'm willing! Just please tell me what file to bring > up, and how within that file to search and find the section I need to read. > > I'll be using Preview within Snow Leopard to access the pdf files. > > Thank you. > > Chris.
