2 questions about Pro tools that confuse me to no end.
Hi, Well i still haven't come off the ground when it comes to Pro tools, but i have a couple of different questions to ask, and i hope the answers don't add up to my current confusion. The first thing is: I have a M-Audio Projectmix as a surface for the Pro tools application. How do i let Protools know that it should record sounds that come from the inputs of the control surface? If i choose input path for a given track, i only have the computers built in microphones and line in to choose from. What if anything do i need to select to make the interfaces inputs be seen by Pro tools, or is it not possible? Second question i have is kinda rettorical but it confused me so that i stopped preparing for a recording just because i didn't understand this: Why do you send say the reverb return track out via the sends to delay and chorus? Does anyone really want chorus or delay on a reverb? I saw this in one of the templates, and got totally confused. /Krister -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: 2 questions about Pro tools that confuse me to no end.
See answers imbedded below: On 19 Aug 2013, at 12:48, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: … The first thing is: I have a M-Audio Projectmix as a surface for the Pro tools application. How do i let Protools know that it should record sounds that come from the inputs of the control surface? If i choose input path for a given track, i only have the computers built in microphones and line in to choose from. What if anything do i need to select to make the interfaces inputs be seen by Pro tools, or is it not possible? Go into the setup menu, and go to Playback engine. In there the first control is a list of all the audio devices on your system. Choose Project Mix Multi Channel from there. If you want the faders to work, go to the Setup menu again, and go to Periferals. Select the MIDI controlers tab, by pressing command 3 or whatever it's page number is. Then, in the first column, select HUI, then select the Project mix control port, and set it for 8 channels. Second question i have is kinda rettorical but it confused me so that i stopped preparing for a recording just because i didn't understand this: Why do you send say the reverb return track out via the sends to delay and chorus? Does anyone really want chorus or delay on a reverb? I saw this in one of the templates, and got totally confused. OK, a little bit on sends… Imagine I am your clean vocal track. I am singing, and you think, hey, he sounds boring, add some reverb. Now, you are my reverb unit. So I'll sing at you, and you'll replicate what I sing, as well as adding the reverb. Now, when we sing together, people hear my clean voice, as well as your doing the reverb. If we'd put reverb directly onto the track, that would be the same as me whispering what I want sung in your ear, then you reproducing it - you'll hear none of the original signal, and all the reverb type things. Also, it's good practise to use sends because if for example, you want reverb, and delay, and some chorus on your vocals, then you can do it without the nasty interactions which can occur with loads of effects. Of course, you might want reverb on your delay, then chorus on the whole thing, and that's fine if you want it. Basically, try and play around with some of the different methods of doing things, and see which you like the sound of. A little tip for you too, if you have say a keyboard, and you want to bring it into Pro Tools, and play along with the track a little. Putting this keyboard onto an Auxiliary track means you can hear it while the track plays, then, when you want to record, just send the output of that aux track to another track for recording. I hope this hasn't served to just confuse you any more. Honestly, just play around and see what you get. You might hate the results, but, don't forget, if you don't know how to make the sounds you dislike, you don't know how to avoid them either. Have fun, and keep at it. /Krister -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: 2 questions about Pro tools that confuse me to no end.
Hi and thanks for the answer. I'll have to try setting up things correctly regarding the Projectmix. Let me see if i can get one thing clear though, You say that if i have a keyboard for example that i want to play along to other tracks with, i should put that on an aux-track, is this because you don't need to arm an aux track? Sorry if the questions sound daft, i'm trying to get a grip on all this. /Krister 19 aug 2013 kl. 15:26 skrev Chris Norman chris.norm...@googlemail.com: See answers imbedded below: On 19 Aug 2013, at 12:48, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: … The first thing is: I have a M-Audio Projectmix as a surface for the Pro tools application. How do i let Protools know that it should record sounds that come from the inputs of the control surface? If i choose input path for a given track, i only have the computers built in microphones and line in to choose from. What if anything do i need to select to make the interfaces inputs be seen by Pro tools, or is it not possible? Go into the setup menu, and go to Playback engine. In there the first control is a list of all the audio devices on your system. Choose Project Mix Multi Channel from there. If you want the faders to work, go to the Setup menu again, and go to Periferals. Select the MIDI controlers tab, by pressing command 3 or whatever it's page number is. Then, in the first column, select HUI, then select the Project mix control port, and set it for 8 channels. Second question i have is kinda rettorical but it confused me so that i stopped preparing for a recording just because i didn't understand this: Why do you send say the reverb return track out via the sends to delay and chorus? Does anyone really want chorus or delay on a reverb? I saw this in one of the templates, and got totally confused. OK, a little bit on sends… Imagine I am your clean vocal track. I am singing, and you think, hey, he sounds boring, add some reverb. Now, you are my reverb unit. So I'll sing at you, and you'll replicate what I sing, as well as adding the reverb. Now, when we sing together, people hear my clean voice, as well as your doing the reverb. If we'd put reverb directly onto the track, that would be the same as me whispering what I want sung in your ear, then you reproducing it - you'll hear none of the original signal, and all the reverb type things. Also, it's good practise to use sends because if for example, you want reverb, and delay, and some chorus on your vocals, then you can do it without the nasty interactions which can occur with loads of effects. Of course, you might want reverb on your delay, then chorus on the whole thing, and that's fine if you want it. Basically, try and play around with some of the different methods of doing things, and see which you like the sound of. A little tip for you too, if you have say a keyboard, and you want to bring it into Pro Tools, and play along with the track a little. Putting this keyboard onto an Auxiliary track means you can hear it while the track plays, then, when you want to record, just send the output of that aux track to another track for recording. I hope this hasn't served to just confuse you any more. Honestly, just play around and see what you get. You might hate the results, but, don't forget, if you don't know how to make the sounds you dislike, you don't know how to avoid them either. Have fun, and keep at it. /Krister -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: 2 questions about Pro tools that confuse me to no end.
Yes, that's exactly right. Furthermore, you can hear what's coming in on an aux channel while the project is playing. This is not true of an audio track. HTH, Sent from my iPhone On 19 Aug 2013, at 15:30, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: Hi and thanks for the answer. I'll have to try setting up things correctly regarding the Projectmix. Let me see if i can get one thing clear though, You say that if i have a keyboard for example that i want to play along to other tracks with, i should put that on an aux-track, is this because you don't need to arm an aux track? Sorry if the questions sound daft, i'm trying to get a grip on all this. /Krister 19 aug 2013 kl. 15:26 skrev Chris Norman chris.norm...@googlemail.com: See answers imbedded below: On 19 Aug 2013, at 12:48, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: … The first thing is: I have a M-Audio Projectmix as a surface for the Pro tools application. How do i let Protools know that it should record sounds that come from the inputs of the control surface? If i choose input path for a given track, i only have the computers built in microphones and line in to choose from. What if anything do i need to select to make the interfaces inputs be seen by Pro tools, or is it not possible? Go into the setup menu, and go to Playback engine. In there the first control is a list of all the audio devices on your system. Choose Project Mix Multi Channel from there. If you want the faders to work, go to the Setup menu again, and go to Periferals. Select the MIDI controlers tab, by pressing command 3 or whatever it's page number is. Then, in the first column, select HUI, then select the Project mix control port, and set it for 8 channels. Second question i have is kinda rettorical but it confused me so that i stopped preparing for a recording just because i didn't understand this: Why do you send say the reverb return track out via the sends to delay and chorus? Does anyone really want chorus or delay on a reverb? I saw this in one of the templates, and got totally confused. OK, a little bit on sends… Imagine I am your clean vocal track. I am singing, and you think, hey, he sounds boring, add some reverb. Now, you are my reverb unit. So I'll sing at you, and you'll replicate what I sing, as well as adding the reverb. Now, when we sing together, people hear my clean voice, as well as your doing the reverb. If we'd put reverb directly onto the track, that would be the same as me whispering what I want sung in your ear, then you reproducing it - you'll hear none of the original signal, and all the reverb type things. Also, it's good practise to use sends because if for example, you want reverb, and delay, and some chorus on your vocals, then you can do it without the nasty interactions which can occur with loads of effects. Of course, you might want reverb on your delay, then chorus on the whole thing, and that's fine if you want it. Basically, try and play around with some of the different methods of doing things, and see which you like the sound of. A little tip for you too, if you have say a keyboard, and you want to bring it into Pro Tools, and play along with the track a little. Putting this keyboard onto an Auxiliary track means you can hear it while the track plays, then, when you want to record, just send the output of that aux track to another track for recording. I hope this hasn't served to just confuse you any more. Honestly, just play around and see what you get. You might hate the results, but, don't forget, if you don't know how to make the sounds you dislike, you don't know how to avoid them either. Have fun, and keep at it. /Krister -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit
Re: 2 questions about Pro tools that confuse me to no end.
If you created an audio track, and you just want to play along without recording, you can arm the track, and switch the monitoring to auto option K this will allow you to hit play and hear what you play along. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 19, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Chris Norman chris.norm...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes, that's exactly right. Furthermore, you can hear what's coming in on an aux channel while the project is playing. This is not true of an audio track. HTH, Sent from my iPhone On 19 Aug 2013, at 15:30, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: Hi and thanks for the answer. I'll have to try setting up things correctly regarding the Projectmix. Let me see if i can get one thing clear though, You say that if i have a keyboard for example that i want to play along to other tracks with, i should put that on an aux-track, is this because you don't need to arm an aux track? Sorry if the questions sound daft, i'm trying to get a grip on all this. /Krister 19 aug 2013 kl. 15:26 skrev Chris Norman chris.norm...@googlemail.com: See answers imbedded below: On 19 Aug 2013, at 12:48, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: … The first thing is: I have a M-Audio Projectmix as a surface for the Pro tools application. How do i let Protools know that it should record sounds that come from the inputs of the control surface? If i choose input path for a given track, i only have the computers built in microphones and line in to choose from. What if anything do i need to select to make the interfaces inputs be seen by Pro tools, or is it not possible? Go into the setup menu, and go to Playback engine. In there the first control is a list of all the audio devices on your system. Choose Project Mix Multi Channel from there. If you want the faders to work, go to the Setup menu again, and go to Periferals. Select the MIDI controlers tab, by pressing command 3 or whatever it's page number is. Then, in the first column, select HUI, then select the Project mix control port, and set it for 8 channels. Second question i have is kinda rettorical but it confused me so that i stopped preparing for a recording just because i didn't understand this: Why do you send say the reverb return track out via the sends to delay and chorus? Does anyone really want chorus or delay on a reverb? I saw this in one of the templates, and got totally confused. OK, a little bit on sends… Imagine I am your clean vocal track. I am singing, and you think, hey, he sounds boring, add some reverb. Now, you are my reverb unit. So I'll sing at you, and you'll replicate what I sing, as well as adding the reverb. Now, when we sing together, people hear my clean voice, as well as your doing the reverb. If we'd put reverb directly onto the track, that would be the same as me whispering what I want sung in your ear, then you reproducing it - you'll hear none of the original signal, and all the reverb type things. Also, it's good practise to use sends because if for example, you want reverb, and delay, and some chorus on your vocals, then you can do it without the nasty interactions which can occur with loads of effects. Of course, you might want reverb on your delay, then chorus on the whole thing, and that's fine if you want it. Basically, try and play around with some of the different methods of doing things, and see which you like the sound of. A little tip for you too, if you have say a keyboard, and you want to bring it into Pro Tools, and play along with the track a little. Putting this keyboard onto an Auxiliary track means you can hear it while the track plays, then, when you want to record, just send the output of that aux track to another track for recording. I hope this hasn't served to just confuse you any more. Honestly, just play around and see what you get. You might hate the results, but, don't forget, if you don't know how to make the sounds you dislike, you don't know how to avoid them either. Have fun, and keep at it. /Krister -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more
Re: 2 questions about Pro tools that confuse me to no end.
I didn't know that, thank you very much. Sent from my iPhone On 19 Aug 2013, at 15:52, Matt Diemert mcdiem...@gmail.com wrote: If you created an audio track, and you just want to play along without recording, you can arm the track, and switch the monitoring to auto option K this will allow you to hit play and hear what you play along. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 19, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Chris Norman chris.norm...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes, that's exactly right. Furthermore, you can hear what's coming in on an aux channel while the project is playing. This is not true of an audio track. HTH, Sent from my iPhone On 19 Aug 2013, at 15:30, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: Hi and thanks for the answer. I'll have to try setting up things correctly regarding the Projectmix. Let me see if i can get one thing clear though, You say that if i have a keyboard for example that i want to play along to other tracks with, i should put that on an aux-track, is this because you don't need to arm an aux track? Sorry if the questions sound daft, i'm trying to get a grip on all this. /Krister 19 aug 2013 kl. 15:26 skrev Chris Norman chris.norm...@googlemail.com: See answers imbedded below: On 19 Aug 2013, at 12:48, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: … The first thing is: I have a M-Audio Projectmix as a surface for the Pro tools application. How do i let Protools know that it should record sounds that come from the inputs of the control surface? If i choose input path for a given track, i only have the computers built in microphones and line in to choose from. What if anything do i need to select to make the interfaces inputs be seen by Pro tools, or is it not possible? Go into the setup menu, and go to Playback engine. In there the first control is a list of all the audio devices on your system. Choose Project Mix Multi Channel from there. If you want the faders to work, go to the Setup menu again, and go to Periferals. Select the MIDI controlers tab, by pressing command 3 or whatever it's page number is. Then, in the first column, select HUI, then select the Project mix control port, and set it for 8 channels. Second question i have is kinda rettorical but it confused me so that i stopped preparing for a recording just because i didn't understand this: Why do you send say the reverb return track out via the sends to delay and chorus? Does anyone really want chorus or delay on a reverb? I saw this in one of the templates, and got totally confused. OK, a little bit on sends… Imagine I am your clean vocal track. I am singing, and you think, hey, he sounds boring, add some reverb. Now, you are my reverb unit. So I'll sing at you, and you'll replicate what I sing, as well as adding the reverb. Now, when we sing together, people hear my clean voice, as well as your doing the reverb. If we'd put reverb directly onto the track, that would be the same as me whispering what I want sung in your ear, then you reproducing it - you'll hear none of the original signal, and all the reverb type things. Also, it's good practise to use sends because if for example, you want reverb, and delay, and some chorus on your vocals, then you can do it without the nasty interactions which can occur with loads of effects. Of course, you might want reverb on your delay, then chorus on the whole thing, and that's fine if you want it. Basically, try and play around with some of the different methods of doing things, and see which you like the sound of. A little tip for you too, if you have say a keyboard, and you want to bring it into Pro Tools, and play along with the track a little. Putting this keyboard onto an Auxiliary track means you can hear it while the track plays, then, when you want to record, just send the output of that aux track to another track for recording. I hope this hasn't served to just confuse you any more. Honestly, just play around and see what you get. You might hate the results, but, don't forget, if you don't know how to make the sounds you dislike, you don't know how to avoid them either. Have fun, and keep at it. /Krister -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Pro Tools Accessibility
