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Pro Tools HD: Advanced Techniques and Workflows

By : Edouard Camou
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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)

Summary


In this chapter, we saw some important editing techniques and other organizational concepts. Pro Tools is very powerful when it comes to editing an audio. We should try to use shortcuts as much as possible to improve our workflow. Beat Detective and Elastic Audio are two major features that made Pro Tools the industry leader. Mastering those tools will enhance your creativity and speed.

In the next chapter, we will look at some more advanced mixing concepts using hardware inserts, submixes, and automations, to get more out of our mixes in Pro Tools.