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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 inserts to add effects to tracks

While volume automation can get you very far within the mix stage of a project, using plugins to affect the sound is how you shape and sculpt the tone as well as add dimension and character. And while it’s possible to do this with AudioSuite and print changes onto clips destructively, it’s a much more practical and effective use of time to use real-time plugins with inserts. With Pro Tools, any one track can have up to 10 plugins inserted, and we’ll be adding some across different tracks.

Getting ready

This recipe requires a Pro Tools session with four mono audio tracks and four stereo tracks. While audio clips are not needed, having them helps demonstrate how the effect signal chain works. You will need to have Inserts A-E active in the track headers as well. To do this, go to the menu bar and select View | Edit Window Views | Inserts A-E.

How to do it…

We’ll be adding plugins as inserts in a few...