before starting with pro tools
Hi guys, ok, finally, On 25th december 2010, Christmass Father gave me for present a beautifull macbook pro with I7 processor.. So, at this time, I'm using my mac to do all I did with windows; I can send emails, surf the Internet, use iwork and ilife, and much more... So, I'm thinking about buying pro tools 9... But I have some questions to ask you! 1. Is pro tools interface multilanguage or only English? If it is multilanguage, is it available into italian language? 2. The same question, but related to pro tools documentation (readme, reference guide, etc); 3. Are shorcuts described into the pro tools documentation? 4. Does any tutorial exist which explains all the workaround to avoid unaccessible functions and describe in detail what is accessible and what not? 5. I have a very little knowlege about audio; do you think I can approach pro tools? Or do I have to study any other tutorial before appproaching pro tools? 6. I would like to create dance songs (italo dance/eurodance/techno/commercial/house/etc); can a blind user use effects and all is needed to create these kind of songs? OK, I think now is enough; But of course, I'd like to ask you other questions in future time! I am so excited, but i am also afraid a little... PS: Oh my God! I think in this message there are tons of mystakes; I am so sorry, but I am Italian and I am 16; I study English to school and I know it isn't very good! If you want to report me the mystakes, I will appreciate it too much! :-) Vincenzo. -- Caselle da 1GB, trasmetti allegati fino a 3GB e in piu' IMAP, POP3 e SMTP autenticato? GRATIS solo con Email.it http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: MisterCupido.com crea i tuoi regali personalizzati ai prezzi più bassi del web... e questa settimana ci sono più sconti che mai! Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid026d-1
manuals in other languages
For those of you who would like to read manuals in other languages, go to http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?langid=41navid=3eid=7924categoryid=37 where you can find links to downloads in French, German, Italian, etc. HTH, Slau
Re: Pro Tools 9 - How to start
Hi Does anyone know of either internet or personal training that's available for Pro Tools and using voice over? Oh, I'm from Toronto Canada. Eric - Original Message - From: Bryan Smart bryansm...@bryansmart.com To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 9:27 AM Subject: RE: Pro Tools 9 - How to start It's too complicated to just load up and reason your way through it. Experience with Sound Forge will barely even get you ready for how complicated it is. You need to start reading the reference guide. Just the preferences dialogs go on for screens and screens. Bryan -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jürgen Fleger Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 5:24 AM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Pro Tools 9 - How to start Hi All, my name is Jürgen and I'm from Germany. I'm fairly new in Pro Tools and after a successful registration of my iLok, what was not that easy, here are the next issues. I'm experienced in using Sound Forge. So I'm not new in sound editing but in using a multi track editor. After installing and starting PT 9 I created a new session. At first I imported an audio file. It was a wav file. But now I don't know how to go on because when I press spacebar for listening to the file, nothing happens. I searched where to adjust the internal sound card of my iMac but I couldn't find anything like that. Probably PT is adjusted to the MBox but I haven't connected a mbox. So you see I really stuck right at the beginning and it was nice if you could help me to start working with Pro Tools. Thanks and best regards Jürgen Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 8.5.449 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3386 - datum van uitgifte: 01/17/11 07:34:00
RE: before starting with pro tools
Hi Vincenzo. 1. I think Pro Tools is available in other languages. However, I don't know if the VoiceOver labels and help tags are in languages other than English. 2. Docs are available in other languages. Slau posted about this today in another thread. 3. There is a Shortcuts guide that lists all of the Pro Tools shortcuts. It is rather large. 4. No tutorial like that exists. 5. The main manual for Pro Tools is the Reference Guide. Reference Guides are books that are intended to be comprehensive lists of all known information on a subject, not tutorials. The Pro Tools Reference Guide gives a little background on terminology, but doesn't spend a lot of time explaining recording concepts. All of the information is there, but you might not comprehend it all right away. 6. You can create music like this, yes. The XPand 2 instrument that comes with Pro Tools has lots of these sorts of sounds in it. Another instrument called Hybrid, that is available with the Instrument Expansion Pack, is another great source of electronic sounds, including basses, leads, pads, textures, as well as lots of sounds driven by step sequences and arpeggiators. There are lots of effects in Pro Tools for creating the animated mixes that are common in those styles, but you'll probably need a hardware control surface to successfully record all of that automation. No worries about your message. You obviously know much more English than I do Italian. I understood it just fine, and that's what's important. Congratulations on scoring your new MacBook, and welcome to the list. Bryan -Original Message- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Vincenzo Rubano Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 11:47 AM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: before starting with pro tools Hi guys, ok, finally, On 25th december 2010, Christmass Father gave me for present a beautifull macbook pro with I7 processor.. So, at this time, I'm using my mac to do all I did with windows; I can send emails, surf the Internet, use iwork and ilife, and much more... So, I'm thinking about buying pro tools 9... But I have some questions to ask you! 1. Is pro tools interface multilanguage or only English? If it is multilanguage, is it available into italian language? 2. The same question, but related to pro tools documentation (readme, reference guide, etc); 3. Are shorcuts described into the pro tools documentation? 4. Does any tutorial exist which explains all the workaround to avoid unaccessible functions and describe in detail what is accessible and what not? 5. I have a very little knowlege about audio; do you think I can approach pro tools? Or do I have to study any other tutorial before appproaching pro tools? 6. I would like to create dance songs (italo dance/eurodance/techno/commercial/house/etc); can a blind user use effects and all is needed to create these kind of songs? OK, I think now is enough; But of course, I'd like to ask you other questions in future time! I am so excited, but i am also afraid a little... PS: Oh my God! I think in this message there are tons of mystakes; I am so sorry, but I am Italian and I am 16; I study English to school and I know it isn't very good! If you want to report me the mystakes, I will appreciate it too much! :-) Vincenzo. -- Caselle da 1GB, trasmetti allegati fino a 3GB e in piu' IMAP, POP3 e SMTP autenticato? GRATIS solo con Email.it http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: MisterCupido.com crea i tuoi regali personalizzati ai prezzi pi? bassi del web... e questa settimana ci sono pi? sconti che mai! Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid026d-1
Re: pro tools 9 reference guide in text format?
Hey Cameron, Why not just open it in Preview? Slau On Jan 17, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Cameron wrote: Hi everyone. I downloaded the pt 9 reference guide but when I try to open it using adobe reader, it gets to ninety nine percent in the processing document dialogue box and then adobe reader crashes. Obviously this is preventing me from exporting it to a text file. If somebody has one, could they link to it or drop me a copy off list please? If you have the other up to date docs, that would be great as well. Thanks, Cameron.
RE: pro tools 9 reference guide in text format?
Hi Slau. Thanks. Yes, I don't know why I didn't think of that earlier. Preview opened it with no problem and I was able to copy it and paste it into a normal txt file in text edit. The formatting is a bit odd but it will work. I wanted a txt version that way I could use my pc to read the manual while I work with pt on my mac. If anybody would like this txt file, hit me up off list as I don't know if I'm allowed to post a send space link on list. Thanks, Cameron. From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Slau Halatyn Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 5:47 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: pro tools 9 reference guide in text format? Hey Cameron, Why not just open it in Preview? Slau On Jan 17, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Cameron wrote: Hi everyone. I downloaded the pt 9 reference guide but when I try to open it using adobe reader, it gets to ninety nine percent in the processing document dialogue box and then adobe reader crashes. Obviously this is preventing me from exporting it to a text file. If somebody has one, could they link to it or drop me a copy off list please? If you have the other up to date docs, that would be great as well. Thanks, Cameron.
Re: pro tools on a laptop?
Hi Karen, Any Mac laptop with a FireWire port will do. You shouldn't have any issues. I'm not sure if Avid still does their so-called approved computers but it might be worth investigating. I've also heard of some folks having issues with certain FireWire chip sets. That said, I've used Pro Tools with several different laptops and never had a single issue. Speaking with a local Avid rep and/or your local Avid dealer would probably be the absolute best bet. You probably won't have much to worry about. best, Slau On Jan 17, 2011, at 9:20 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi all, As I get closer to this, I have a question. My present pro tools setup with os 9 involves a desktop, but I am considering a laptop for the new mac so as to take advantage of other mac uses. However if I cannot find a fit for my present pro tools hardware, I have and will continue to use a digi 002, then I would have to consider a desktop instead. I also will be connecting an external usb drive. I realize this might be a very basic question, but can anyone recommend a mac laptop that will allow me to connect the digi and the external drive with no major issues? Was going to ask my local pro audio store here with the greatest history with my setup, but sadly they seem to be gone. thanks, Karen
A lightbulb moment for a possible sampler workaround.
Ok. The subject doesn't make any sense because my mad scientist brain is swimming with an idea and I'm just gonna write stream of consciousness. Something occurred to me about our problems with using samplers like structure, kontact, etc. All those samplers do is to load an external file that's saved somewhere on the hard drive. They have extensions like .gig, .tki, .exs, etc. If logic serves, when a preset it saved using pro tools, that creates a .tfx file, which points to the above mentioned sampler file. How can we access the actual code of the .tfx file and learn it's hierarchy so that we can write them outside of the pro tools environment? If we can learn how to write them in an advanced text editor or compiler, can't we create an automator script to anylize a folder, get all the file names, and input each one into it's own .tfx file? That way, we could quickly create native pro tools presets of otherwise inaccessible presets. I'm not the only one who thought of this. Check out this link. http://protools.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Preset-Maker-Utility/29275-3779 When I bring the .tfx files up in text edit, it's gibberish. Anyone know what language those are written in? Let's get some dialog going on this, because if we can automate the process of making these files, then we can distribute them to everyone, granted that they've saved the installed instruments into the common path. However, to take this a step further, someone could create a small program whereby they tell it where the instrument files are stored, which then alters the automator script to create the tfx files with the propper paths. Any thoughts? Have a great night. Reeves
