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The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook

By : Emiliano Paternostro
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The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook

By: Emiliano Paternostro

Overview of this book

Pro Tools has long been an industry-standard Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for audio professionals, but it can often be overwhelming for new and experienced users alike. The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook acts as a reference guide to the software and breaks down each stage of a project into manageable phases. From planning a session, editing a sequence, performing a mix to printing the final masters, you can approach this book either sequentially or peruse the self-contained recipes. You’ll come to grips with workflows for music production, motion picture, and spoken word production, helping you gain expertise in the area of your choice. You'll learn aspects of music mixing like side chain processing to keep instruments from overshadowing each other and conforming for motion picture. The author’s expertise with Pro Tools will help you discover and incorporate different techniques into your workflows. You’ll also learn to build consistent and replicable workflows and templates by understanding what happens behind the scenes in Pro Tools. With this cookbook, you’ll be able to focus on the creative aspects of your audio production and not get mired by the technical hurdles. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to handle even the most complex features of Pro Tools to deliver immaculate results for your clients.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Setting up the session

Before you can begin doing any work in Pro Tools, you need to set up a session. Some aspects of a session can be changed after the fact, and some cannot. Knowing the different session formats is important, as well as understanding how to set them up correctly. For this walkthrough, we’ll create a generic session and discuss the different options and their impact/effects.

Getting ready

If you are working with specific audio files, look at what sample rate they are in. On macOS, you can find this out by selecting the file in Finder and going to File | Get Info. On Windows, you can install a third-party tool such as MediaInfo. This will allow you to right-click on the file in File Explorer and select it as an app to open the file with. The app will show you the sample rate, along with other file metadata.

How to do it…

For this recipe, we will be creating a sample project with a sample rate of 44.1 KHz and 24-bit Bit Depth from Pro Tool...