can any one reccomend a midi controler keybord to control pt9 and software synths?
hey all i'm looking to make electronic music with pt9 please can any one reccomend a good usb midi controler key bord to control both pro tools and software synths? your help with this question would be most welcom!! kind regards trahern.
Re: can any one reccomend a midi controler keybord to control pt9 and software synths?
Hi Trahern, Like I said, check the avid website, but any controler should serve you well, depending on what specific features you want yourself. You'll get the best results if you research different types yourself and check on the avid website to see if they are compatible with protools, which I'm guessing, almost all controlers out there on the market are. Also, just on a side note, maybe it would be best if you focus in some of the questions your putting to the group on one e-mail, particularly ones that are related, just to minimise the amount of stuff people have to look through. Hope that helps, Brian. -- From: trahern culver sound.warrio...@googlemail.com Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 8:09 PM To: Pro Tools Accessibility ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: can any one reccomend a midi controler keybord to control pt9 and software synths? hey all i'm looking to make electronic music with pt9 please can any one reccomend a good usb midi controler key bord to control both pro tools and software synths? your help with this question would be most welcom!! kind regards trahern.
Re: can any one reccomend a midi controler keybord to control pt9 and software synths?
ok but please can any one reccomend a midi controler from an accsessabelity stand point?
Pro Tools and sampler plugs
For anyone here that is working with electronic music composition in PT, have you found any sampler plugs that can be made to work with VoiceOver? At minimum, the plug would need to be able to load a few samples that could be assigned to MIDI note events (so triggerable from a controller). The synth plugs for PT seem alright, but I really need to be able to use my own samples in order to drop Sonar for composition. Specifically, I use this sort of thing for triggering drum samples, triggering chopped portions of loops, triggering musical stabs/effects, and so-on. Directly importing audio on to a track isn't really the way to go about this sort of thing. I've thought about trying to make mouse spots/hot spots with QuicKeys to load samples on to pads in Boom. Wanted to see if others have a better idea, though. Bryan
Re: Pro Tools Hot spot update
Great Bryan, This is something Slau and I have discussed in the passed. We were thinking it may really help in the plugin window: even something as simple as clicking on an invisible button that VO doesn't recognize. I need to grab a copy of QK and start experimenting as well. Let us know what you find... Vinny - Original Message - From: Bryan Smart bryansm...@bryansmart.com To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 9:19 PM Subject: RE: Pro Tools Hot spot update I'm working with QuicKeys. I've started a project to assemble QK shortcuts of use to VoiceOver users. It's partly OT here, but I already have a collection of shortcuts for some apps that I've put together, including iTunes and Skype, as well as for some web apps like the Netflix and Rhapsody players. Pro Tools is an app that could definitely use some help in this area. It is nowhere as easy as scripting for the Windows screen readers to do so, but QK can be set to automatically trigger shortcuts if a test function succeeds. That function can examine the user interface, for example, to watch for a change in a meter or some other value. QK shortcuts can include an Applescript action, so that they can speak directly through VoiceOver, if something useful happens on screen. This combination could be setup so that meters and other important info could automatically speak, if the user activated a particular mode. Just as other food for thought, the shortcuts can also be triggered through MIDI events. This would make it possible to setup a controller or external button box to perform actions when the controls are manipulated. Anyway, I plan to start poking at Pro Tools with QK in the next day or two. Will post what comes of it. If anyone would like to check out my project VoxKeys, in its current form, go to: http://blog.bryansmart.com/voxkeys-project/ Bryan From: Chuck Reichel soundpicturerecord...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 3:46 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Pro Tools Hot spot update Hi Listers, I just wanted to give a brief Hot spot update.. To make things easier with hot spots set up the num pad to watch hot spots using num pad # 1 to watch the # 1 hot spot and so-forth.. When your in a plugin Waves Rcomp in this case find the threshold and other important controls you want to find out what your controller is mapped to.. After you set your hot spots with VO shift # 19 just hit the corresponding num pad number for that hot spot and when you touch the correct fader or switch VoiceOver announces any change made to that value.. For instance Threshold minus 6 or what ever you change it to.. If you watch several parameters at once VoiceOver will announce the change of that value and that it was the threshold if that is the one you moved a control for.. Very cool!! In a multi track session using full drum kit just set your hot spots the way you have your drum track layout and for me I hit num pad number 1 for my kick and voiceover announces watching hot spot 1 and says the level as it changes, When you want to look at another track level hit it again and VoiceOver announces no longer watching hot spot 1 in This way I was monitoring several tracks at once, Including watching the master fader output with just the num pad.. If we could name the individual track meter when you would monitor the track it might say, Kick minus 2.5 or what ever when you jump back and forth VoiceOver would announce the track name and its changed level.. .. Ya all give it a try!! I think we need a thorough tutorial on hot spots! The VoiceOver help did not seem to go in to enough depth for me.. Talk soon Chuck Reichel 954-742-0019 www.SoundPictureRecording.com
Re: Pro Tools Hot spot update
Hey Bryan, Very cool. I'll check it out this weekend. Cheers, Slau On Dec 1, 2010, at 9:19 PM, Bryan Smart wrote: I'm working with QuicKeys. I've started a project to assemble QK shortcuts of use to VoiceOver users. It's partly OT here, but I already have a collection of shortcuts for some apps that I've put together, including iTunes and Skype, as well as for some web apps like the Netflix and Rhapsody players. Pro Tools is an app that could definitely use some help in this area. It is nowhere as easy as scripting for the Windows screen readers to do so, but QK can be set to automatically trigger shortcuts if a test function succeeds. That function can examine the user interface, for example, to watch for a change in a meter or some other value. QK shortcuts can include an Applescript action, so that they can speak directly through VoiceOver, if something useful happens on screen. This combination could be setup so that meters and other important info could automatically speak, if the user activated a particular mode. Just as other food for thought, the shortcuts can also be triggered through MIDI events. This would make it possible to setup a controller or external button box to perform actions when the controls are manipulated. Anyway, I plan to start poking at Pro Tools with QK in the next day or two. Will post what comes of it. If anyone would like to check out my project VoxKeys, in its current form, go to: http://blog.bryansmart.com/voxkeys-project/ Bryan From: Chuck Reichel soundpicturerecord...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 3:46 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Pro Tools Hot spot update Hi Listers, I just wanted to give a brief Hot spot update.. To make things easier with hot spots set up the num pad to watch hot spots using num pad # 1 to watch the # 1 hot spot and so-forth.. When your in a plugin Waves Rcomp in this case find the threshold and other important controls you want to find out what your controller is mapped to.. After you set your hot spots with VO shift # 19 just hit the corresponding num pad number for that hot spot and when you touch the correct fader or switch VoiceOver announces any change made to that value.. For instance Threshold minus 6 or what ever you change it to.. If you watch several parameters at once VoiceOver will announce the change of that value and that it was the threshold if that is the one you moved a control for.. Very cool!! In a multi track session using full drum kit just set your hot spots the way you have your drum track layout and for me I hit num pad number 1 for my kick and voiceover announces watching hot spot 1 and says the level as it changes, When you want to look at another track level hit it again and VoiceOver announces no longer watching hot spot 1 in This way I was monitoring several tracks at once, Including watching the master fader output with just the num pad.. If we could name the individual track meter when you would monitor the track it might say, Kick minus 2.5 or what ever when you jump back and forth VoiceOver would announce the track name and its changed level.. .. Ya all give it a try!! I think we need a thorough tutorial on hot spots! The VoiceOver help did not seem to go in to enough depth for me.. Talk soon Chuck Reichel 954-742-0019 www.SoundPictureRecording.com
Re: Pro Tools and sampler plugs
hey what is boomb? and what hardware midi controler do you use with pt? kind regards trahern.
