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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)

Editing during playback

The previous recipe showed you how to quickly add edit points while listening to playback, but it requires that you go back and remove clips afterward. In this recipe, we’ll look at a way to edit audio clips as the clips are playing back, and a different way to align them all back together.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need a Pro Tools session with an audio track placed in a track. If you want to try this recipe out on a practical example, then having a recorded voice with errors can help. One has been provided in the GitHub project for this book. Otherwise, an empty audio clip or any audio clip altogether can help.

How to do it…

We’re going to play back some audio and then select a portion of it that contains an error while it’s playing and delete it. Then, we’ll line up the clips quickly. Follow along with these steps:

  1. Activate the Select Tool property and place the insertion point at the beginning...