I will say this much. your basic understanding of it is on the right track. On Mar 29, 2012, at 10:00 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't even know what they do on a regular board. > > Thank you though for your help. > > I'll go have a read and see what I can come up with. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Slau Halatyn" <slauhala...@gmail.com> > To: <ptaccess@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:54 PM > Subject: Re: Please help me with documentation > > > 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. >
