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Pro Tools HD: Advanced Techniques and Workflows

By : Edouard Camou
Book Image

Pro Tools HD: Advanced Techniques and Workflows

By: Edouard Camou

Overview of this book

Pro Tools HD is a digital audio workstation platform for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is the leading audio software when it comes to professional audio work. Working effectively with audio and producing professional music with Pro Tools HD is not an easy task. Beginning with what the software is about, we will take you all the way through to the steps required to efficiently record your audio. You will discover how to improve the workflow of Pro Tools software and receive innovative tips to enable flawless editing in music production, film scoring, film, and television post-production. Packed with concise and clear instructions on using Pro Tools HD: Advanced Techniques and Workflows, this book starts with different possible hardware and software combinations to help you understand the strengths and limitations of each, before taking you through powerful editing and advanced mixing techniques. When it comes to choosing a ProTools HD system there are different technologies available and therefore, many ways to use the system optimally so, you will learn about some digital audio concepts for better software optimisation. You will then learn editing using Beat detective, as well as covering excellent workflow and routing concepts to take full advantage of ProTools mixing capabilities, integrating both hardware analogue units with your favorite plugins. Finally, you will see how you can export your project safer, faster and better. This guide shows you the framework to enable you to take your usage of ProTools to the next level by explaining and discussing new and advanced features to achieve industry standard techniques.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Vocal editing preparations


Vocal editing is an essential skill for any producer or engineer and Pro Tools offers few settings that we should configure before going any further.

First let's not forget to disable the Link Timeline and Edit Selection and Insertion Follows Playback options, to be able to modify the waveform without losing the timeline selection and be able to press stop/play and audition from the same start point.

We should also disable window scrolling by selecting None from Option | Edit Window Scrolling.

Insertion Follows Playback/Link Timeline and Edit Selection

Tip

The following shortcuts can be used:

Link Timeline and Edit Selection: Shift + /

Insertion Follow Playback: N

Zero crossing

Editing vocal in Pro Tools can be a bit tricky, since the software does not provide a "snap to zero crossing" option. Therefore, every time we make a cut on an audio clip, we are at a risk of creating a click like the example below:

A typical click as a result of clip cut

To avoid clicks,...