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The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook

By : Emiliano Paternostro
Book Image

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)

Using faders and automation

Manually adding automation data is perfectly acceptable in many situations. However, it is often the case that relying on it exclusively does not provide enough precision or ultimately makes things sound too mechanical and not natural. The use of physical faders to manipulate sound has been around a lot longer than automation, but with Pro Tools, you do not need to have a physical fader controller to achieve similar results. We’ll use Pro Tools’ built-in tools to create smooth and responsive volume automation.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need a Pro Tools session with a single audio track. No audio clip needs to be placed, but having one will help demonstrate the volume automation effects. Your session will need to have the I/O column active. You can enable this by going to the menu bar and selecting View | Edit Window Views | I/O.

How to do it…

We’ll now create some volume automation using the built-in...