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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)

Getting organized with colors


You might think that coloring is a side skill and that you can do without it. Many of us still rely on Pro Tools's default track coloring and manually assign their preferred colors to tracks and clips, but there are simpler ways of organizing our visual references.

Let's begin with the default track color coding. Navigate to Preferences | Display | Color Coding. Here you can choose the default coloring scheme for both tracks and clips. By assigning the default track color coding to Groups, every time we group tracks together, Pro Tools will automatically assign them to the same available color. By assigning the default clip color coding to track Color, we also avoid having a different color for clips and tracks.

This can help busy internal projects where quick organization is essential. While mixing, many tracks often complement each other to create a single melody or sound. Musicians tend to use many harmonies and create multiple different parts, sometimes with...