Count Off?
Hello All, Another simple question for those who can answer... I would like a count off from the time I hit record to the time when PT actually begins recording, without having sustained clicking throughout the recording period. Can I assume that this is achieved by setting up a click track? If so, how can I make the appropriate modifications? Best, Abdul
scrub/delete
Dear All, I've come across a strange PT behaviour that need some explaining. So if you can, please help. I'm scrubbing through audio, selecting a portion somewhere in the middle for deletion. When I play through again, there is a silent gap about the same area where I deleted. How can I correct for this? Abdul
Re: eupanics controller
Hey Gord, To which of the euphonix controllers are you referring. There are three types within the artist series. More over, I have been keeping an eye on the mix, and the sale price of 1,250 USD has not changed for the past three months, neither has it with the other artist models. - Abdul On 6 Nov 2011, at 17:39, Gordon Kent wrote: Hello: has anybody tried this with pt? Sweetwater has it on sale and I was wondering if it is worth it. My old wireless tranzport gave up the ghost. Gord
Re: PT9+voiceover?
Hej Anton, Sorry to be flip, but the answer to your first question is, it works fairly well, but not perfectly. It would be ok to update to Lion if the machine running is not mission critical. PT 9.0.5 addresses issues of compatibility for OS 10.6.7, 8 and 9. But where Lion is concerned, PT 9.0.5 is considered a beta-- though it seems to work without issue-- at least for the most part. Unless there is something you really need from Lion, I would play it safe until the next update from Avid. Best, - Abdul On 11 Oct 2011, at 09:59, Anton Johansson wrote: Hello, I'm really interested in how the PT9 works with voice over? i'm working at a school in sweden and our blind sound engineer students has been using sonar with cake talking. I have a 13 MacBook pro with pro tools 9, do i have upgrade the OSx to lion? i have recently started using mac... If somebody could help me out with this, thanks.. Regards, Anton
Re: Bad quality: I just don't get it!
I completely agree that sweetwater is the way to go. Call them at the number below and speak to one of their sales engineers: either Mark Stein or Michael Soper, they will treat you nice and spend the time to discuss any of your questions in detail. SweetWater offers free tech support for any item you buy through them, no limits. I got a PT 9 CrossGrade from them and if I have any problems with PT, I call SweetWater, not Avid. But as is there admonition, their job will not be to offer training, but merely to help you address technical problems. It's my understanding that they have some pretty flexible financing options. ...might want to check it out. SweetWater 1-800-222-4700 Best, -Abdul On 7 Oct 2011, at 06:41, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: Excellent! I will take this other board back and ask them for my money back, then once the funds get back on my card will go through sweet water. Is there a dash in that u r l or just sweetwater.com Chris. - Original Message - From: Stephen Martin monkeypushe...@gmail.com To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 9:37 PM Subject: Re: Bad quality: I just don't get it! The M=-Audio Fast track, and the Tascam US-122mkII are the to that were recommended I like the tascam stuff for a few reasons, the main one being that after installing the drivers you don't have to worry about loading its control panel software, it can be pretty much controlled in your recording software. As for getting fimiliar with things i buy online. Most if not everything has a PDF manual available online. I send it to a sighted friend and have them use it to go over the layout of the unit with me Evey manual has in it a picture of the item with a clear label and description pointing to each kfnob, button and jack on it. Another trick, if you have an iPhone, Android, or other modern smart phone with a good camera, call a friend on skype from the phone and hold the phone up to the device and have them tell you what each thing is. You could most likely get away with this using the the camera on the macbook as well, but i suggested a phone first since it's a little easier to hold over what you may want them to see.Back to the interfaces, both the mentioned interfaces gets u two ins, two outs and a midi in and out and headphones jack. The knobs are basically the gain for the individual inputs, the master and headphone volume, and on the tascam a knob to set the mix between whats coming in through the inputs, and whats coming back from the recording software. Simple basic and great to learn on to help u get decent recordings. On Oct 6, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: My only concern with having a board shipped to me is now I got the board, but I don't know what the different jacks on it are, what the buttons are, what the different dials are, etc. I need someone who can go through the board with me, one on one, and as I am moving my hand around the board, can identify for me what the things are I'm feeling. Not just based on opinion of, it's a good easy board/surface, but also based on the problems I am having, which model from M-Audio or Tascam specifically would you advise I ask for? Remember, I ony have about $320 to work with provided Sam Ash reverses all the funds totally back to my card... which... they better! Chris. - Original Message - From: Monkey Pusher monkeypushe...@gmail.com To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 1:44 PM Subject: Re: Bad quality: I just don't get it! I gotta agree with kevin here, Sonar and Pro tools are both capable of makeing commercials releases and come with great stock plug ins. Yeah they aren't the greatest in the world, but i have heard pro quality stuff done with just the built in plug ins in both. The trick is like its already been said learn the hell ou out of them, put the time in and get better at everything from how u record the source material to what u do with it once its in PT and recorded. Start by getting the best possible sound u can into pro tools, don't think you can fix it later as that will only lead to way more work, and chances are dissappointment. As they say, garbage in, garbage out, and you can't polish a turd. Oh and i was considering the Allen heath board you got at one point as well. Here are the reasons i didn't go with it. A) the USB out on that board only records the main s stereo outs, you can not send all 10 or however channels on that board to individual channels in Pro Tools. B) it does not work as a control surface. I highly recommend you return that board and get one of the simpler interfaces we recommended. It's simple and will help you learn the basics of getting a source from a mic into protools and sounding good. If sam ash wont sell you w one take your business elsewhere, I know for a fact that sam
Re: I got an interface, now what?
Hi Chris, Can I assume that you are running PT 9.0.5, and that you have run the driver installation of your interface? If you have not done the latter, start there, then in Pro Tools' Setup and Playback engine, try to select again. - Abdul On 30 Sep 2011, at 03:44, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: OK guies, I managed to trade my mixer. I just got back from the music store and got an Alesis Multimix 4 USB 4 channel. It's not actually a control surface, but it does interface via USB, and the guy at the store did tell me it was an authorized Protools interface. So, now, I just need to know how do I set it up in Protools? I got the audio output coming through the mixer, and if I turn my head phone volume up on the mixer, where my head phones are plugged in, I definitely do hear audio, so we're almost there. I now just need to know how to set the input part up. The problem is when I vo+space on the input paths button on my audio track, everything except internal audio 12 says n/a. If I try to hit the record enable button, it tells me that I have no active output and inputs set. That's odd being that the output is indeed being fed correctly. So, the only thing left is to figure out how to route the in of my mixer to the mac. System prefs does have the in and out both now set to USB audio codec, but the odd thing is when I go in p t to the setup menu then to playback engine, it's on USB audio codec but there is another USB audio codec as well under there. I've tried them both but no luck. Chris.
Re: scrubbing...
Hey Slau, So my objective was to precisely select an area for loop playback (at normal speed), a little more than a half second of the wave form, to alter levels on... Is there another way aside from splitting regions? I know my ear needs some training with the scrub wheel, but I'm not yet confident that what I select whilst scrubbing is is what I want playing in real time. Assuming there isn't another way, is it possible to play on loop a specific region? Abdul On 25 Sep 2011, at 16:48, Slau Halatyn wrote: Hi Abdul, Editing in Pro Tools is a vast subject but I'll try to explain why what you're doing will not work. First, using the down and up arrows only works when the transport is engaged, either in Play back or shuttle mode. Once you scrub, the edit fields follow the insertion point which follows the scrubbing. So, in other words, once you begin scrubbing, your in point immediately changes to the scrub position. So, if you wish to use the down and up arrows, you have to engage the transport, use the down and up arrows to create the in and out points, stop the transport and then perform cut or copy or whatever you need. Here's what most people do: Play or scrub to the position you wish to be the beginning of the cut. Press Command-e to split the region. Scrub to the second point and use the same command for splitting regions, Command-e. Since you're at the end of a newly created region, press Shift-Option-tab to select back to the previous region boundary and now you can cut. Of course, if all you wanted to do was copy, then the first method is adequate. HTH, Slau On Sep 24, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Abdul D Kamara wrote: Hello All, Ok, so here is another behaviour of PT that I just don't understand. I am using an MC Transport to edit my Audio. So I down-mark from one point, scrub to the next and up-mark, which should (apparently) select what I have scrubbed through right? Well assuming this is right, not so... At least, when I play back it's almost as if I have not made a selection and PT plays the whole of the region. Can anyone explain to me what I am doing wrong? Abdul
Fwd: put the region in the track.
Hello All, I will like to retract my rather stupid question; it turns out that drag and drop with VO is not as bad as I thought. Best, A Begin forwarded message: From: Abdul D Kamara abduldkam...@gmail.com Date: 13 September 2011 23:57:00 CEST To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: put the region in the track. Hi all, I'm trying to get audio from the regions list, on to a track. It appears that simply copying and pasting is not an option, and that instead, I would need to drag and drop-- at least, I'm told that this is how the sighted folks do it. Is this correct? If so, what is the work around? Can a surface control with programmable keys be one of them? Abdul
Re: put the region in the track.
Hey Slau, As I am a PT novis, please forgive my imprecise descriptions. I am importing a series of audio clips into the regions list, from which I drag and drop into an audio track. I figured it would be far easier this way, rather than constantly importing audio into new tracks-- and approach that is completely unmanageable for me. But I now know how to do the drag and drop; problem solved. Thanks Abdul On 14 Sep 2011, at 01:17, Slau Halatyn wrote: Hi Abdul, Yes, one would drag the file from the regions list. With VoiceOver, I'm not sure how possible it is at this time. Let me say that, normally, you'd import an audio file directly to a new track. This makes it easy to cut and paste into other tracks. If the region exists in the session already, that would usually mean it was recorded into the session and thus should be able to be found elsewhere in one of the tracks. Can you explain how it is that you have a region in the regions list and not in any track? It might help in my answer. Cheers, Slau On Sep 13, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Abdul D Kamara wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get audio from the regions list, on to a track. It appears that simply copying and pasting is not an option, and that instead, I would need to drag and drop-- at least, I'm told that this is how the sighted folks do it. Is this correct? If so, what is the work around? Can a surface control with programmable keys be one of them? Abdul
Fwd: dragging and dropping
Hey Slau, Kevin and All Please forgive the delay. I have seen your messages whilst at work, but up until now have not had a chance to respond. For you frame of reference, I am using PT 9.0.5 on the latest version of Snow Leopard. Below are the steps I found on the internet for drag and drop with VO. I have a more streamlined approach, but as some of you may have slightly different VO behavioral settings, it's best that we start off with the more expanded but generic version. 1. Using VoiceOver navigation commands, move to the item you want to drag. 2. Press VO-Command-F5 to move the mouse pointer to the location of the VoiceOver cursor. You can verify you have done this correctly with VO-F5 to hear what is under the mouse. 3. Begin the drag action with VO-Command-Shift-Space. you will hear the click of a mouse being pressed, but not released. 4. Turn off Cursor Tracking with VO-Shift-F3. 5. Using VoiceOver navigation commands, move to the location where you want to drop the item you are dragging. 6. Use VO-Command-F5 again to move the mouse cursor to the location of the VoiceOver cursor. You can press VO-F5 to verify you have done this correctly and hear what is currently under the mouse. 7. Press VO-Command-Shift-Space to release the item being dragged. You will hear the click of a mouse being released. 8. Turn your cursor tracking back on with VO-Shift-F3. I have set in the VO utility that the mouse follows the VO cursor, so steps 2 and 6 are unnecessary for me. As is steps 4 and 8. So assuming your VO settings are similar to mine, here are my steps as it relates to PT. 1. In the Edit window, go to and interact with the regions list. Assuming the cursor tracking is on, you can use the up and down arrow keys to select a region, use shift + up or down arrow keys to select contiguous regions, or use a series of VO commands (that I cannot remember right now) to select noncontiguous regions. I seem to recall that the latter requires the temporary deactivation of cursor tracking. 2. Press VO + Command + Shift + Spacebar for the down click. 3. Press VO + I for the item chooser menu. Then start typing the name of the track where you would like to drag the region (narrows down the options, saves time). Pressing return or enter on the desired item (i.e. track) from the chooser menu places the VO cursor on the desired spot.. 4. For the release, repeat Step 2, and presto! HTH A On 14 Sep 2011, at 23:26, Slau wrote: Hey Abdul, I don't know how much you keep an eye on the PTAccess list but several of us inquired about how you managed to drag and drop successfully. Just a heads up about the inquiries. cheers, slau
put the region in the track.
Hi all, I'm trying to get audio from the regions list, on to a track. It appears that simply copying and pasting is not an option, and that instead, I would need to drag and drop-- at least, I'm told that this is how the sighted folks do it. Is this correct? If so, what is the work around? Can a surface control with programmable keys be one of them? Abdul
Re: Hiss/Static on MBox 2
So it appears that the problem was my Mic. It's fairly sensitive to everything, and much of what I reported was the result of that. The solution was to get a foam that seems only to come with a slightly higher end model of what I have. The sound now, is beautiful. ...feeling a bit ashamed for not knowing about this before. But this is just a note to say thanks. A A On 3 Aug 2011, at 09:03, Chiapello Diego wrote: Hi Abdul, this problem could be many things: first of all I would try to change the Mic, using a dinamic one, with the same cable, and let's see if pops, static/hiss can be heared. Second, I would try to change the cable using th same condenser Mic that makes you unhappy. Doing this you can establish if it is a Phantom power problemor a preamp problem. You should do some trouble shooting. Let's us know about. Have a nice day. Diego. 2011/8/3, Abdul D Kamara abduldkam...@googlemail.com: HI Kevin, So I have been poking around the search engines for an answer to the problem, to no avail. Most who have reported the same problem, rule out the Mic, or at least that of the same make as mine, which seems to corroborate your hypothesis. A On 2 Aug 2011, at 23:38, Kevin Reeves wrote: Actually, this is a problem with something on the digital level. I have seen this happen on several systems, and don't know what might be causing it. On Aug 2, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Frank Carmickle wrote: Hello What mic? We need more info. --FC Sent from my iPhone On Aug 2, 2011, at 16:12, Abdul D Kamara abduldkam...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello Slau and others, First, many thanks for your guidance on the installation of my MBox 2 drivers. I would like to post on another problem... As indicated in the subject line, I hear hiss and/or static through my Mbox 2. I cannot determine if it is an issue with the MIc, but certainly the hiss/static and occasional pops invariably occur when the Mic is connected and powered, which (by the way) connects via XLR. I have come across others on the Avid Forums dealing with the same issue, but someone has yet to post an answer. Any clue? A
Re: Hiss/Static on MBox 2
Diego, thanks for the input. I do not have the capacity to do that kind of troubleshooting, mainly because I do not have a second mic or set of xlr cables. However, I am off to my audio equipment reseller and as the mic and box are under guarantee, I'm sure we can come to a diagnosis and/or resolution of the problem. I will keep you guys updated. A On 3 Aug 2011, at 09:03, Chiapello Diego wrote: Hi Abdul, this problem could be many things: first of all I would try to change the Mic, using a dinamic one, with the same cable, and let's see if pops, static/hiss can be heared. Second, I would try to change the cable using th same condenser Mic that makes you unhappy. Doing this you can establish if it is a Phantom power problemor a preamp problem. You should do some trouble shooting. Let's us know about. Have a nice day. Diego. 2011/8/3, Abdul D Kamara abduldkam...@googlemail.com: HI Kevin, So I have been poking around the search engines for an answer to the problem, to no avail. Most who have reported the same problem, rule out the Mic, or at least that of the same make as mine, which seems to corroborate your hypothesis. A On 2 Aug 2011, at 23:38, Kevin Reeves wrote: Actually, this is a problem with something on the digital level. I have seen this happen on several systems, and don't know what might be causing it. On Aug 2, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Frank Carmickle wrote: Hello What mic? We need more info. --FC Sent from my iPhone On Aug 2, 2011, at 16:12, Abdul D Kamara abduldkam...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello Slau and others, First, many thanks for your guidance on the installation of my MBox 2 drivers. I would like to post on another problem... As indicated in the subject line, I hear hiss and/or static through my Mbox 2. I cannot determine if it is an issue with the MIc, but certainly the hiss/static and occasional pops invariably occur when the Mic is connected and powered, which (by the way) connects via XLR. I have come across others on the Avid Forums dealing with the same issue, but someone has yet to post an answer. Any clue? A
Hiss/Static on MBox 2
Hello Slau and others, First, many thanks for your guidance on the installation of my MBox 2 drivers. I would like to post on another problem... As indicated in the subject line, I hear hiss and/or static through my Mbox 2. I cannot determine if it is an issue with the MIc, but certainly the hiss/static and occasional pops invariably occur when the Mic is connected and powered, which (by the way) connects via XLR. I have come across others on the Avid Forums dealing with the same issue, but someone has yet to post an answer. Any clue? A
Problems with PT 9 and MBox II
Hello All, I have recently upgraded to PT 9.0.3 from 8.0.5. PT does not seem to recognise or see my MBox. I am in a track able to configure the I/O settings of the interface, but each time I arm the track it seems that my computer hardware is the one being used. I have much to read on this matter, but I was wondering if someone could give me a clue as to how to start addressing this issue. I just wanted to point out that previously I have been running Mac OS 10.6.8. But in light of outstanding compatibility issues, I downgraded to 10.6.3. A
Re: pt update 9.03
Hi Jean-Philippe, To your other question: officially Avid has yet to conclusively determine weather the latest version of Pro Tools works on Mac OS 10.6.7 or 8. However, an Avid Technical Support Agent tells me that customers claim that PT 9.0.3 seems to work perfectly fine on the latest versions of Snow Leopard, but that it will absolutely not work on Lion-- which sucks for me, as I have only one Mac. ...guess I should get another one. Abdul On 21 Jul 2011, at 14:40, Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote: Hi ProTools experts, after my first ProTools launch, I was warned that a new update was available. I installed it to but I don't know where to look for release notes. Does anyone know if it solve the osx 10 point six point eight issue? Thanks for your help, Hey JPR http://www.facebook.com/jprykiel http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel
Re: A little introduction and greeting from Italy.
dido! On 21 Jul 2011, at 18:03, Jake wrote: Your not the only stupid newby on this list speaking for myself I look forward to your questions so as maybe I wont have to ask quite so many myself. Jake - Original Message - From: Chiapello Diego ildieg...@googlemail.com To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:54 PM Subject: A little introduction and greeting from Italy. Dear all, my name is Diego, I'm visually impaired but I use VO with my Mac. I'm writing from Italy and I'm a member of Universal Access team. I'm interested in learning Protools and to know the exact compatibility and usage with VO. I say that because, almost sure, from November I will involved to record a band in Live concerts and I intended tu use Protools due to his multi-track excellent performances. I thought to use Protools but I must begin to study quite hard! I'm sure that here I will find people who can help me in my first approach of Protools and I hope that you have a little patience with my stupid questions. Have a nice day everybody. Cheers Diego.
scrubbing
Hey All, A few more obvious questions for you. Assuming that the scrubber tool has been selected, are there a set of keyboard commands one can use to scrub, as a opposed to a wheel from a controller? Is there a way to play sounds at speeds greater than normal speed? Or even jump to a time index within a track? Abdul
Introduction and a few questions.
Hey All, I'm new to the list. ...thought it would be good to introduce myself, as I already have a kabillion questions for you all. I'm trying to set up a Podcast. I'm running Pro Tools 8.0.5 with an MBox 2 as my interface. The basic template I need has a audio and instrument track, the former will be for voice recording via mic and the latter will be for for triggering various audio clips, which will be done through a MIDI controller. To do so, I will need to have the clips made into virtual instruments. At least, this is the conceptual explanation I got from an expert from my nearby audio equipment reseller. So here are some of the questions I have. 1. How do I create a virtual instrument in Pro Tools, and can I access them? 2. How do I direct the controller to use the instrument? I should say that the device is a LaunchPad Live Controller I'm told that it should integrate seamlessly with Pro Tools. I am also having a little trouble with understanding the steps for recording an audio track. I have done the following. 1. Created a session and specified recording parameters. 2. Created an mono Audio Track. 3. Checked the physical layer: gain/volume levels, connections, etc... 4. Armed the track. 5. In the Transport Cluster, I hit Record Enabled. I stopped after 10 seconds of recording, went back to the beginning, tried to play, but no sound. What is up with that? But more reasonably, what am I missing? I appreciate that some of these questions are super simple for some, so please bare with me. Also, if any of you know of a down to basics tutorial that I can refer to, please let me know. Many Thanks, Abdul
Re: Introduction and a few questions.
Hi Steve, I'm sorry if it wasn't clear, but I have done exactly that. No cigars. Any other suggestions? Push comes to shove, tomorrow I will pay a visit to some people who might be able to help me. Perhaps there some details I'm overlooking. Best, On 3 Jun 2011, at 00:21, Monkey Pusher wrote: It seems he may haver not armed, or record enabled the mono track he wants to record on. He only mention pressing the arm button in the transport cluster, but not the one on the track. You have have to record enable the track as well so Protools knows which track you want the recorded audio placed on. Hope this helps. Steve On 6/2/11, Slau Halatyn slauhala...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Abdul, OK, one thing I forgot to mention is the issue of input monitoring. Now, I'm not sure what the case is with LE systems but, with HD systems, one can switch between monitoring the input or the playback of a given record-enabled track. Option-k toggles between these two modes. It's under the Tracks menu. Again, I'm not sure what the case is with LE so you'll have to check. Now, if I remember correctly, with MBoxes, there was a particular knob that, when turned to the left, sent the input to the stereo out and when turned to the right, sent the recorded signal to the output. So, essentially, if it's somewhere in the middle, you'd get both. I would make sure that the knob is at least in the middle so you can hear playback. During recording, it would be perhaps better to use only the input signal as there would otherwise be a slight delay between the live signal and the playback signal. Using a small playback buffer or using low latency monitoring would help this situation considerably. HTH, slau On Jun 2, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Abdul D Kamara wrote: Hey Slau, So the idea is that some of these clips, which include sections of music and/or voice recording, would be at times overlapping the voice from the primary audio track. I will be following a pretty tight script, doing it live most of the way, so I think I might want to give the instrument track with the launchpad a go. Of course, I understand some of these explanations can be quite involved, so in advance, you have my gratitude. I have been able to set up the baby grand piano to work with my controller. I think I get how a fraction of this works. Expanding my library to accommodate my clips is the trick. On to the audio: 1. By signal feeding you mean that I am able to hear my voice via the microphone? If so, yes. 2. Link Timeline Edit Selection is checked. I don't think that I have manipulated any other defaults. So thus far, no luck. On 2 Jun 2011, at 19:13, Slau Halatyn wrote: Hey Abdul, OK, I have some time now to address your questions. First, let me say that you might only possibly need a trigger for specific audio clips if you're planning to do it in real time. I would bet that you're not planning to do the whole of each podcast episode live, without any edits. So, triggering sounds, per se, is probably completely unnecessary. If it's a live radio-style show then, yes, that would be appropriate. The overwhelming majority of podcasts are put together in pieces with segments recorded, edited and then output as a single mixed file. Normally, any kind of music or sound effects would be copied and pasted into a dedicated track and mixed along with the other material or sometimes even put into the same track as a stand-alone audio region in the midst of other audio regions—essentially as a link in a chain of various pieces of audio. So, I wouldn't worry about the virtual instrument track at this time. To address the audio questions, you seem to have followed the right steps in general. Let me ask a few other questions: 1. When you created the mono track and checked the routing, were you able to hear the signal feeding the microphone? 2. Make sure that link Timeline Edit Selection is checked under the Options menu. Did you change any other defaults? 3. When you stopped the transport, did you press Return to get back to the beginning of the session? BTW, there are two types of playback behavior as it pertains to the insertion point. With the insertion following the playback cursor, if you stop the playback by pressing the space bar, the insertion will stay at the stopped playback position. If insertion is not following playback, the insertion point will stay at the initial position and remain there while the playback cursor continues on playing the material. If you press the space bar in this mode, the transport main counter will instantly reset back to it's original position where you started playback. This is a matter of personal preference and is coincidentally found in the Preferences dialog under the Setups menu. Let's start with that for now. Let me know. Slau On Jun 2, 2011, at 6:46 AM, Abdul D Kamara wrote: Hey All, I'm new to the list
Re: Introduction and a few questions.
Slau, thanks, this is really good to know. On 3 Jun 2011, at 00:26, Slau Halatyn wrote: I don't think so. In step 4 Abdul says he armed the track and then in the Transport cluster he engaged the record function. I take that as he took the right steps. bTW, Abdul, you needn't use the transport window or cluster for engaging the transport. Command-space bar is the keyboard shortcut for putting the transport into record. HTH, slau On Jun 2, 2011, at 6:21 PM, Monkey Pusher wrote: It seems he may haver not armed, or record enabled the mono track he wants to record on. He only mention pressing the arm button in the transport cluster, but not the one on the track. You have have to record enable the track as well so Protools knows which track you want the recorded audio placed on. Hope this helps. Steve On 6/2/11, Slau Halatyn slauhala...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Abdul, OK, one thing I forgot to mention is the issue of input monitoring. Now, I'm not sure what the case is with LE systems but, with HD systems, one can switch between monitoring the input or the playback of a given record-enabled track. Option-k toggles between these two modes. It's under the Tracks menu. Again, I'm not sure what the case is with LE so you'll have to check. Now, if I remember correctly, with MBoxes, there was a particular knob that, when turned to the left, sent the input to the stereo out and when turned to the right, sent the recorded signal to the output. So, essentially, if it's somewhere in the middle, you'd get both. I would make sure that the knob is at least in the middle so you can hear playback. During recording, it would be perhaps better to use only the input signal as there would otherwise be a slight delay between the live signal and the playback signal. Using a small playback buffer or using low latency monitoring would help this situation considerably. HTH, slau On Jun 2, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Abdul D Kamara wrote: Hey Slau, So the idea is that some of these clips, which include sections of music and/or voice recording, would be at times overlapping the voice from the primary audio track. I will be following a pretty tight script, doing it live most of the way, so I think I might want to give the instrument track with the launchpad a go. Of course, I understand some of these explanations can be quite involved, so in advance, you have my gratitude. I have been able to set up the baby grand piano to work with my controller. I think I get how a fraction of this works. Expanding my library to accommodate my clips is the trick. On to the audio: 1. By signal feeding you mean that I am able to hear my voice via the microphone? If so, yes. 2. Link Timeline Edit Selection is checked. I don't think that I have manipulated any other defaults. So thus far, no luck. On 2 Jun 2011, at 19:13, Slau Halatyn wrote: Hey Abdul, OK, I have some time now to address your questions. First, let me say that you might only possibly need a trigger for specific audio clips if you're planning to do it in real time. I would bet that you're not planning to do the whole of each podcast episode live, without any edits. So, triggering sounds, per se, is probably completely unnecessary. If it's a live radio-style show then, yes, that would be appropriate. The overwhelming majority of podcasts are put together in pieces with segments recorded, edited and then output as a single mixed file. Normally, any kind of music or sound effects would be copied and pasted into a dedicated track and mixed along with the other material or sometimes even put into the same track as a stand-alone audio region in the midst of other audio regions—essentially as a link in a chain of various pieces of audio. So, I wouldn't worry about the virtual instrument track at this time. To address the audio questions, you seem to have followed the right steps in general. Let me ask a few other questions: 1. When you created the mono track and checked the routing, were you able to hear the signal feeding the microphone? 2. Make sure that link Timeline Edit Selection is checked under the Options menu. Did you change any other defaults? 3. When you stopped the transport, did you press Return to get back to the beginning of the session? BTW, there are two types of playback behavior as it pertains to the insertion point. With the insertion following the playback cursor, if you stop the playback by pressing the space bar, the insertion will stay at the stopped playback position. If insertion is not following playback, the insertion point will stay at the initial position and remain there while the playback cursor continues on playing the material. If you press the space bar in this mode, the transport main counter will instantly reset back to it's original position where you started playback. This is a matter of personal preference and is coincidentally
Re: Introduction and a few questions.
Arg, I should have included this in the previous email as I also hate posting a whole lot of short messages in succession on a list. Slau, upon installing Pro Tools, I came across a dialog of which I cannot remember the full detail. The crux of it is that there are certain keyboard command conflicts with Pro Tools and the Finder and that I had to do something to turn off the shortcuts on the finder end. Does this sound familiar to you? e.g., As you may know, Command + Space normally gets you to spotlight. On 3 Jun 2011, at 00:26, Slau Halatyn wrote: I don't think so. In step 4 Abdul says he armed the track and then in the Transport cluster he engaged the record function. I take that as he took the right steps. bTW, Abdul, you needn't use the transport window or cluster for engaging the transport. Command-space bar is the keyboard shortcut for putting the transport into record. HTH, slau On Jun 2, 2011, at 6:21 PM, Monkey Pusher wrote: It seems he may haver not armed, or record enabled the mono track he wants to record on. He only mention pressing the arm button in the transport cluster, but not the one on the track. You have have to record enable the track as well so Protools knows which track you want the recorded audio placed on. Hope this helps. Steve On 6/2/11, Slau Halatyn slauhala...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Abdul, OK, one thing I forgot to mention is the issue of input monitoring. Now, I'm not sure what the case is with LE systems but, with HD systems, one can switch between monitoring the input or the playback of a given record-enabled track. Option-k toggles between these two modes. It's under the Tracks menu. Again, I'm not sure what the case is with LE so you'll have to check. Now, if I remember correctly, with MBoxes, there was a particular knob that, when turned to the left, sent the input to the stereo out and when turned to the right, sent the recorded signal to the output. So, essentially, if it's somewhere in the middle, you'd get both. I would make sure that the knob is at least in the middle so you can hear playback. During recording, it would be perhaps better to use only the input signal as there would otherwise be a slight delay between the live signal and the playback signal. Using a small playback buffer or using low latency monitoring would help this situation considerably. HTH, slau On Jun 2, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Abdul D Kamara wrote: Hey Slau, So the idea is that some of these clips, which include sections of music and/or voice recording, would be at times overlapping the voice from the primary audio track. I will be following a pretty tight script, doing it live most of the way, so I think I might want to give the instrument track with the launchpad a go. Of course, I understand some of these explanations can be quite involved, so in advance, you have my gratitude. I have been able to set up the baby grand piano to work with my controller. I think I get how a fraction of this works. Expanding my library to accommodate my clips is the trick. On to the audio: 1. By signal feeding you mean that I am able to hear my voice via the microphone? If so, yes. 2. Link Timeline Edit Selection is checked. I don't think that I have manipulated any other defaults. So thus far, no luck. On 2 Jun 2011, at 19:13, Slau Halatyn wrote: Hey Abdul, OK, I have some time now to address your questions. First, let me say that you might only possibly need a trigger for specific audio clips if you're planning to do it in real time. I would bet that you're not planning to do the whole of each podcast episode live, without any edits. So, triggering sounds, per se, is probably completely unnecessary. If it's a live radio-style show then, yes, that would be appropriate. The overwhelming majority of podcasts are put together in pieces with segments recorded, edited and then output as a single mixed file. Normally, any kind of music or sound effects would be copied and pasted into a dedicated track and mixed along with the other material or sometimes even put into the same track as a stand-alone audio region in the midst of other audio regions—essentially as a link in a chain of various pieces of audio. So, I wouldn't worry about the virtual instrument track at this time. To address the audio questions, you seem to have followed the right steps in general. Let me ask a few other questions: 1. When you created the mono track and checked the routing, were you able to hear the signal feeding the microphone? 2. Make sure that link Timeline Edit Selection is checked under the Options menu. Did you change any other defaults? 3. When you stopped the transport, did you press Return to get back to the beginning of the session? BTW, there are two types of playback behavior as it pertains to the insertion point. With the insertion following the playback cursor, if you stop
Re: Introduction and a few questions.
Hey Folks, thanks to Slau, the recording problem is fixed. It appears that using the key commands work better than trying to directly manipulate controls in the transport cluster. On 3 Jun 2011, at 00:26, Slau Halatyn wrote: I don't think so. In step 4 Abdul says he armed the track and then in the Transport cluster he engaged the record function. I take that as he took the right steps. bTW, Abdul, you needn't use the transport window or cluster for engaging the transport. Command-space bar is the keyboard shortcut for putting the transport into record. HTH, slau On Jun 2, 2011, at 6:21 PM, Monkey Pusher wrote: It seems he may haver not armed, or record enabled the mono track he wants to record on. He only mention pressing the arm button in the transport cluster, but not the one on the track. You have have to record enable the track as well so Protools knows which track you want the recorded audio placed on. Hope this helps. Steve On 6/2/11, Slau Halatyn slauhala...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Abdul, OK, one thing I forgot to mention is the issue of input monitoring. Now, I'm not sure what the case is with LE systems but, with HD systems, one can switch between monitoring the input or the playback of a given record-enabled track. Option-k toggles between these two modes. It's under the Tracks menu. Again, I'm not sure what the case is with LE so you'll have to check. Now, if I remember correctly, with MBoxes, there was a particular knob that, when turned to the left, sent the input to the stereo out and when turned to the right, sent the recorded signal to the output. So, essentially, if it's somewhere in the middle, you'd get both. I would make sure that the knob is at least in the middle so you can hear playback. During recording, it would be perhaps better to use only the input signal as there would otherwise be a slight delay between the live signal and the playback signal. Using a small playback buffer or using low latency monitoring would help this situation considerably. HTH, slau On Jun 2, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Abdul D Kamara wrote: Hey Slau, So the idea is that some of these clips, which include sections of music and/or voice recording, would be at times overlapping the voice from the primary audio track. I will be following a pretty tight script, doing it live most of the way, so I think I might want to give the instrument track with the launchpad a go. Of course, I understand some of these explanations can be quite involved, so in advance, you have my gratitude. I have been able to set up the baby grand piano to work with my controller. I think I get how a fraction of this works. Expanding my library to accommodate my clips is the trick. On to the audio: 1. By signal feeding you mean that I am able to hear my voice via the microphone? If so, yes. 2. Link Timeline Edit Selection is checked. I don't think that I have manipulated any other defaults. So thus far, no luck. On 2 Jun 2011, at 19:13, Slau Halatyn wrote: Hey Abdul, OK, I have some time now to address your questions. First, let me say that you might only possibly need a trigger for specific audio clips if you're planning to do it in real time. I would bet that you're not planning to do the whole of each podcast episode live, without any edits. So, triggering sounds, per se, is probably completely unnecessary. If it's a live radio-style show then, yes, that would be appropriate. The overwhelming majority of podcasts are put together in pieces with segments recorded, edited and then output as a single mixed file. Normally, any kind of music or sound effects would be copied and pasted into a dedicated track and mixed along with the other material or sometimes even put into the same track as a stand-alone audio region in the midst of other audio regions—essentially as a link in a chain of various pieces of audio. So, I wouldn't worry about the virtual instrument track at this time. To address the audio questions, you seem to have followed the right steps in general. Let me ask a few other questions: 1. When you created the mono track and checked the routing, were you able to hear the signal feeding the microphone? 2. Make sure that link Timeline Edit Selection is checked under the Options menu. Did you change any other defaults? 3. When you stopped the transport, did you press Return to get back to the beginning of the session? BTW, there are two types of playback behavior as it pertains to the insertion point. With the insertion following the playback cursor, if you stop the playback by pressing the space bar, the insertion will stay at the stopped playback position. If insertion is not following playback, the insertion point will stay at the initial position and remain there while the playback cursor continues on playing the material. If you press the space bar in this mode, the transport main counter
Re: Introduction and a few questions.
Yeah, I think you are right about the play button. I'm going to bed now, and I will be taking with me the 36 page document on Pro Tools short cuts. Oh, and if you happen to remember the other shortcuts that need to be disabled, please let me know, I have already disabled the one for spotlight... I am not using an external drive right now, though I will. I get the sense that this is critical, Beyond the issue of space, why is it so? Thanks again, Abdul On 3 Jun 2011, at 01:09, Slau Halatyn wrote: Hey Abdul, Glad it worked. I'm thinking that you probably armed the Record button in the transport but never actually engaged the transport by pressing the Play button. Well, the Command-space bar shortcut will solve that. There's also another couple of options for engaging the transport. One is with a particular f-key (I don't recall which one because I never use it) and num pad 3 and then space bar. Again, I never use that but it's just another option. Glad you're rolling, so to speak ;) Slau On Jun 2, 2011, at 7:00 PM, Abdul D Kamara wrote: Hey Folks, thanks to Slau, the recording problem is fixed. It appears that using the key commands work better than trying to directly manipulate controls in the transport cluster. On 3 Jun 2011, at 00:26, Slau Halatyn wrote: I don't think so. In step 4 Abdul says he armed the track and then in the Transport cluster he engaged the record function. I take that as he took the right steps. bTW, Abdul, you needn't use the transport window or cluster for engaging the transport. Command-space bar is the keyboard shortcut for putting the transport into record. HTH, slau On Jun 2, 2011, at 6:21 PM, Monkey Pusher wrote: It seems he may haver not armed, or record enabled the mono track he wants to record on. He only mention pressing the arm button in the transport cluster, but not the one on the track. You have have to record enable the track as well so Protools knows which track you want the recorded audio placed on. Hope this helps. Steve On 6/2/11, Slau Halatyn slauhala...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Abdul, OK, one thing I forgot to mention is the issue of input monitoring. Now, I'm not sure what the case is with LE systems but, with HD systems, one can switch between monitoring the input or the playback of a given record-enabled track. Option-k toggles between these two modes. It's under the Tracks menu. Again, I'm not sure what the case is with LE so you'll have to check. Now, if I remember correctly, with MBoxes, there was a particular knob that, when turned to the left, sent the input to the stereo out and when turned to the right, sent the recorded signal to the output. So, essentially, if it's somewhere in the middle, you'd get both. I would make sure that the knob is at least in the middle so you can hear playback. During recording, it would be perhaps better to use only the input signal as there would otherwise be a slight delay between the live signal and the playback signal. Using a small playback buffer or using low latency monitoring would help this situation considerably. HTH, slau On Jun 2, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Abdul D Kamara wrote: Hey Slau, So the idea is that some of these clips, which include sections of music and/or voice recording, would be at times overlapping the voice from the primary audio track. I will be following a pretty tight script, doing it live most of the way, so I think I might want to give the instrument track with the launchpad a go. Of course, I understand some of these explanations can be quite involved, so in advance, you have my gratitude. I have been able to set up the baby grand piano to work with my controller. I think I get how a fraction of this works. Expanding my library to accommodate my clips is the trick. On to the audio: 1. By signal feeding you mean that I am able to hear my voice via the microphone? If so, yes. 2. Link Timeline Edit Selection is checked. I don't think that I have manipulated any other defaults. So thus far, no luck. On 2 Jun 2011, at 19:13, Slau Halatyn wrote: Hey Abdul, OK, I have some time now to address your questions. First, let me say that you might only possibly need a trigger for specific audio clips if you're planning to do it in real time. I would bet that you're not planning to do the whole of each podcast episode live, without any edits. So, triggering sounds, per se, is probably completely unnecessary. If it's a live radio-style show then, yes, that would be appropriate. The overwhelming majority of podcasts are put together in pieces with segments recorded, edited and then output as a single mixed file. Normally, any kind of music or sound effects would be copied and pasted into a dedicated track and mixed along with the other material or sometimes even put into the same track as a stand-alone audio region in the midst of other audio
