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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)

Automating plugin effects

There are many scenarios where you may want to change the way something sounds over time. For these moments, we’ll use plugin automation. Plugins can be changed over time with automation just as with volume; the difference is that instead of one fader to work with, you have a plethora of sliders and knobs, depending on which plugin you are using. Sometimes, this means only having a few parameters to consider, such as with the Trim plugin, for instance, or it could mean having many, many parameters, such as for an EQ. Since Pro Tools doesn’t enable plugin automation by default, we’re going to learn how to activate the plugin automation for each parameter and explore the different ways we can manipulate it.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need a Pro Tools session with a single mono audio track. No audio clips need to be present, but having one present can help demonstrate the results from plugin automation. You will need to...