Re: Metronom with no keypad, am I S O L, Basically?

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Martin
Another option is to use something like quickeys to map the numpad shortcuts to the number row on a non extended keyboard. Someone did this and shared the quick keys script with me. i haven't tried it yet but i know its not all the number roow shortcuts, If there is interest, i'll see if i can

Re: Fixing Clipping: Specifically, with Voiceover

2011-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Or if you want it to really not clip, then do what I do, hold vo+space down through the entire audio track once soloed from beginning to end. Ow! Mommy! Me Fingul huts. R O F L! Hey, it works though! R O F L! - Original Message - From: "Kevin Reeves" To: Sent: Sunday, October 0

Re: Metronom with no keypad, am I S O L, Basically?

2011-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK that would be wonderful. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Kevin Reeves" To: Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 9:52 PM Subject: Re: Metronom with no keypad, am I S O L, Basically? Hey man. Just go grab yourself the wired usb keyboard. You're gonna need it for editing, transport,

Re: Fixing Clipping: Specifically, with Voiceover

2011-10-02 Thread Kevin Reeves
Once vo is on the meter, hit vo f3 while the track is playing or your singing into the mic. If it clips, hit vo Space and clear the meter. Simple as that. Kevin

Re: Erm, boss? We gotta little pwobwem, LOL!

2011-10-02 Thread Kevin Reeves
Here's some stuff to think about. 1. Try to record everything flat. You can add EQ's later via plugins that will sound much better than the multimix EQ. Sometimes it's not a matter of how good the mic is, if the Pre is inexpensive, it will poorly effect the quality of the sound. Also, record e

Re: Metronom with no keypad, am I S O L, Basically?

2011-10-02 Thread Kevin Reeves
Hey man. Just go grab yourself the wired usb keyboard. You're gonna need it for editing, transport, selecting, dropping markers, navigating markers, selecting between markers, nudging, etc. It's got 2 USB ports on it for your ilok and such. I'll find you guys the best deal on it and post it to t

Metronom with no keypad, am I S O L, Basically?

2011-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
So, I have a macbook. NO extra keyboard, none I can unplug, no bluetooth with num pad, etc. All I got's the macbook keyboard with no num pad. Is there a way, thus, being I can't do num pad 7, that I can turn on and off the metronom? I desperetly need it for this project as there is a cold s

Re: Erm, boss? We gotta little pwobwem, LOL!

2011-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Yes sir. That was way better. Sorry I seemed a bit rude earlier, if I did at all. And to everyone, especially the mods, whoever you guys are, I'd be curious by the way, thanks for such a great list. And Slau, I do plan to start tonight on reading the manual, so please don't jump my back just

Re: Erm, boss? We gotta little pwobwem, LOL!

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Martin
Ok, lets back up and start with one thing at a time. On your vocal track. Insert the AIR 1 band EQ VO right to the filter type and change it to high pass. then find the frequency parameter and interact with it. Then play back the project while you adjust it down to somewhere around 200hz or

Fixing Clipping: Specifically, with Voiceover

2011-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Hate to keep flagging these e-mails with high priority, but this is very important as it means the difference in an acceptible recording or not. OK, we have a few very weird things going on here part of which plays into my clipping issue. BTW, I backed off my mike a bit on In the Still of the

Wo! baby, that helped!

2011-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Man, you all're right as always! I ran the male vocal solidifier E Q preset, and holy! dynamite! Huge! difference! Man, I wish Sonar was that noticeable when adding effects/EQ's! I'm beginning to see now, why PT is so pro-grade! Good! L'lord!

Re: Erm, boss? We gotta little pwobwem, LOL!

2011-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Oh, BTW, no mid control on my multi-mix, only lows, not highs. Chris. My high and low right now is half way straight up at 12:00. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Stephen Martin" To: Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 2:49 PM Subject: Re: Erm, boss? We gotta little pwobwem, LOL! ok

Re: Erm, boss? We gotta little pwobwem, LOL!

2011-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
ouch! That went way over my poor little head. In the longrun, I wanan learn to do all that, but for now, what would you say you'd focus on learning before anything further. Let's take this one step at a time. All these things're overwhelming me. Chris. - Original Message - From:

Re: Erm, boss? We gotta little pwobwem, LOL!

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Martin
ok two things. If the vocals aren't loud enough, instead of turning up the vocals bring down the level on the karaoke track. Secondly Stop trying to boost the highs, and cut the mud instead. Rule #1 of using EQ cut before you boost. First off, you probably want to run the vocals through a high

Re: Erm, boss? We gotta little pwobwem, LOL!

2011-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Notta tinner, so I can't. I tried. I'll try and send another result though. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Christopher Wright" To: Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 2:27 PM Subject: Re: Erm, boss? We gotta little pwobwem, LOL! One thing that might help, if you're able to do so,

Re: Erm, boss? We gotta little pwobwem, LOL!

2011-10-02 Thread Christopher Wright
One thing that might help, if you're able to do so, is singing the lead vocal part an octave higher. - Original Message - From: "Christopher-Mark Gilland" To: Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 1:57 PM Subject: Erm, boss? We gotta little pwobwem, LOL! OK, first of all, download this mp3

Erm, boss? We gotta little pwobwem, LOL!

2011-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, first of all, download this mp3 I made in PT. I had to use Audio Hijack Pro to get it mixed to an mp3 till I find out what the heck my bouncing issue is, but anyway, again, here, get this first of all: http://www.sendspace.com/file/7fm4u2 OK, yeah, yeah, don't chastise my vocals, I know t

Re: Huge huge huge! improvement! So! Close!

2011-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I tried that and it didn't work, still. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Stephen Martin" To: Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 1:20 PM Subject: Re: Huge huge huge! improvement! So! Close! Create a folder on that external drive and point all your Pro Tools Projects to that folder an

Re: Huge huge huge! improvement! So! Close!

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Martin
Create a folder on that external drive and point all your Pro Tools Projects to that folder and have pro tools work off that drive instead. On Oct 2, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > We'll give that a shot ande see. How do I go about consolidating all my > tracks into one t

Re: Help with timeline tracking

2011-10-02 Thread Slau Halatyn
Jason, There's currently no way to edit MIDI events other than scrubbing and using cut, copy and paste. One thing (which I believe Kevin was suggesting) is to change the behavior of the insertion point following playback. Pressing Control-n toggles this behavior and there's a checkbox in the Op

Re: Help with timeline tracking

2011-10-02 Thread Jason
Kevin, thanks for responding. I probably did not explain this very well. When I am using the MIDI edit window the MIDI notes displayed do not reflect the current position of the song. I can't think of a brief way to explain this so I apologize for the long-winded description. In the MIDI edit wi

Re: Huge huge huge! improvement! So! Close!

2011-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
It's ok, but even bouncing to wav is not working. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Chris Norman" To: Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 5:11 AM Subject: Re: Huge huge huge! improvement! So! Close! I know it's not perfect either, but you could bounce as WAV, then use something like s

Re: Huge huge huge! improvement! So! Close!

2011-10-02 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
We'll give that a shot ande see. How do I go about consolidating all my tracks into one thing as you said? Actually there were only two tracks, one karaoke track, and one vocal track, n o fancy things just bvocal, and the auto-tune RTAS wrapper, and maybe a stereo reverb insert, so basically,

Re: to new Pro Tools users

2011-10-02 Thread Slau Halatyn
And one more thing… I haven't used Avid's tech support for some time but, at least a few years ago, they offered tiers of support options and, if I'm not mistaken, support for a standard LE product was something like $250 per year of unlimited phone support. To me, that's a priceless resource. A

Re: to new Pro Tools users

2011-10-02 Thread Chuck Reichel
Right ON Slau! I try to call avid every chance I get and guess what The people I talk to are starting to say yes I have heard of VoiceOver! The squeaky wheel gets the grease! YMMV Chuck On Oct 1, 2011, at 11:25 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote: Just a little note to the new Pro Tools users on this l

Re: Again about MBox-Pro.

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Martin
I assume you grabbed the latest versions of drivers from Avid's website and followed all steps. Hmm maybe something has to be configured in the Driver software first. It's been a while since i set mine up so their maybe something i am not thinking of. Sorry i can't be more helpful, keep us pos

Re: Huge huge huge! improvement! So! Close!

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Martin
Something to consider, and i don't know how well this will work, but if you mac has an SD card slot on it, Class 10 16GB and 32GB SD cards are fairly inexpensive now, especially if you know where to shop for them. So yeah you may be only to kep a project or two on them but move the project fold

Re: Tempo changes

2011-10-02 Thread Kevin Reeves
It's the Apple aluminum wired keyboard. Just google that, and a ton of results will come back. On Oct 2, 2011, at 5:15 AM, David Eagle wrote: > you got an external keyboard with USB ports on it? What's the model please. > > On 02/10/2011, Chris Norman wrote: >> Other option is to get an exter

Re: Tempo changes

2011-10-02 Thread David Eagle
Found one. Excelent. What a brilliant bunch of people you all are. On 02/10/2011, Chris Norman wrote: > Dunno mate, just a standard apple USB keyboard. > > On 02/10/2011, David Eagle wrote: >> you got an external keyboard with USB ports on it? What's the model >> please. >> >> On 02/10/2011, Chr

Re: Tempo changes

2011-10-02 Thread Chris Norman
Dunno mate, just a standard apple USB keyboard. On 02/10/2011, David Eagle wrote: > you got an external keyboard with USB ports on it? What's the model please. > > On 02/10/2011, Chris Norman wrote: >> Other option is to get an external keyboard LOL. Mine comes with 2 USB >> ports on it, so you

Re: Again about MBox-Pro.

2011-10-02 Thread Chris Norman
Strange, my interface doesn't work at all, unless I'm being a propper dumb ass, which is more than possible LOL, got a friend coming round to look at it though. Footswitch would be nice though. If you're like me, and don't like doing things again and again, it's great for just getting that bit of

Re: Tempo changes

2011-10-02 Thread David Eagle
you got an external keyboard with USB ports on it? What's the model please. On 02/10/2011, Chris Norman wrote: > Other option is to get an external keyboard LOL. Mine comes with 2 USB > ports on it, so you could plug your iLok into that. Or a USB hub. I > got one for £10, with 10 ports, and it wa

Re: Tempo changes

2011-10-02 Thread Kevin Reeves
Hey man. The wired keyboard comes with 2 USB ports, which would totally house your iLok and 1 more unpowered device. Hope that helps. Kevin

Re: Huge huge huge! improvement! So! Close!

2011-10-02 Thread Chris Norman
I know it's not perfect either, but you could bounce as WAV, then use something like soundconverter to convert your track, Macs or Max is the other one (which has the additional benefit of being free), which you can also use. Sorry I can't be more constructive. On 02/10/2011, Kevin Reeves wrote:

Re: Tempo changes

2011-10-02 Thread Chris Norman
Other option is to get an external keyboard LOL. Mine comes with 2 USB ports on it, so you could plug your iLok into that. Or a USB hub. I got one for £10, with 10 ports, and it was all powered. Oh yeah, firewire hard drive LOL. HTH, On 02/10/2011, David Eagle wrote: > Aaah, this presents me wi

Re: Tempo changes

2011-10-02 Thread David Eagle
Aaah, this presents me with a dilemma: I've only got two USB ports on this thing, despite the fact that it costed £2000; I get three on my £150 PC netbook but that's by the by. Basically, I need one port for my external hard drive with all my audio files on, and one port for my Ilock device which I

Re: Huge huge huge! improvement! So! Close!

2011-10-02 Thread Kevin Reeves
Hey man. Congrats on getting your interface to work. Here are my thoughts on the whole monitoring deal. I don't advise turning off the Pro Tools monitoring. Actually, I think it's better to shut off the multimix's monitoring instead. Here's why. The fact that you can hear your signal going into

Re: Help with timeline tracking

2011-10-02 Thread Kevin Reeves
The main thing that needs to be unchecked is the insertion follows playhead setting. That will unlink them so that when you press stop, it will go back to where your insertion point is.. Then, When you move the insertion point, the playhead moves, not the other way around. At this point, I can't