Apr 28, 2014 Pro Tools Fundamentals - Creating New Tracks One of the reasons I stuck with Pro Tools when I first tried it was that it doesn’t do things for you. Anything you. From Pro Tools All-In-One For Dummies, 4th Edition. By Jeff Strong. Pro Tools is an audio and Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) recording program. Aside from recording audio and MIDI tracks, you can use Pro Tools to tweak your recordings to a high level of detail, clarity, and accuracy, using some of the most powerful editing functions available.
Pro Tools is an audio and Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) recording program. Aside from recording audio and MIDI tracks, you can use Pro Tools to tweak your recordings to a high level of detail, clarity, and accuracy, using some of the most powerful editing functions available. You also get excellent mixing capabilities that help you mix your tracks together, EQ (equalize) them, and apply effects. Get the most out of Pro Tools by knowing how to use its keyboard shortcuts to control your music from start to finish.
Pro Tools Keyboard Shortcuts for Creating, Playing, and Recording a New Track
Recording audio is what Pro Tools does best (well, that and editing it). This article guides you through the keyboard shortcuts for creating and recording a new track, as well as playing it back.
To create a new track: Press Apple Command+N (Mac) or Ctrl+N (PC).
To start or stop playing a session: Press the spacebar.
To enable tracks to record:
To start recording in your session (instead of clicking Record and then Play):
To stop recording the session: Press the spacebar.
To place a track in Record Safe mode: Apple command-click (Mac) or Ctrl-click (PC) the Record Enable button for the track.
To place all tracks in Record Safe mode: Apple command+Option-click (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt-click (PC) the Record Enable button for any track.
To toggle between Record modes (Non-destructive, Destructive, Loop, QuickPunch): Control-click (Mac) or right-click (PC) the Record button in the Transport window.
To enter and exit recording while in QuickPunch Record mode (while the session plays): Press Apple command+spacebar (Mac) or Ctrl+spacebar (PC).
To set and enable a pre-roll: Option-click (Mac) or Alt-click (PC) the track’s playlist where you want to put the pre-roll.
To set and enable a post-roll: Option-click (Mac) or Alt-click (PC) the track’s playlist where you want to put the post-roll.
To stop recording and cancel a take: Press Apple command+. (period; Mac) or Alt+. (period; PC).
Pro Tools Keyboard Shortcuts for Making Selections, Editing, and Zooming
Changing a recorded track used to be a messy, inexact, time-consuming process that many engineers weren’t very good at. Even the steadiest hands couldn’t come close to the accuracy and variety now available (to even the clumsiest) through digital editing.
You don’t even have to move your mouse too much to speed up your work; Pro Tools offers keyboard shortcuts for many common functions, including selection, editing, and zooming.
To make a selection while your session plays:
To nudge a selection’s start point:
To nudge a selection’s end point:
To change the nudge value:
To choose Edit modes:
To choose Edit Tools:
To select Zoom presets:
To change the grid value:
If the audio is leaving Logic, to go and STAY in Pro Tools, you need to export your tracks. This is easily done, using the 'Export ALL Tracks as Audio Files' from the File Menu.
This will create contiguous audio files that all start from bar 1, beat 1. You simply import them all into PT, and you're all set. Well... you'll need to create a new mix, but the audio will all be there. Read up on Exporting.. it WILL include any plug-ins, and plug-in automation, but it will ignore volume and panning automation. If you are simply going to a PT studio to record strings, but then bringing the files back into Logic, I would highly recommend creating 'stems'. Stereo mixes of grouped instruments, such as guitars, keys, percussion, taken from your working mix. Solo all the perc, hit 'bounce', making sure the locators in the bounce dialog box reflect the whole song. Bouncing can be done 'offline', making it go relatively quickly. Rinse and repeat with other instrument groups... Then you simply import your stereo stems into PT, setting the faders at unity, and you'll be hearing your rough mix, from only a handful of tracks... much easier to deal with then importing 50 individual tracks, and trying to create a rough mix on the spot. I use stems exclusively when recording at another studio, knowing that I will be bringing the newly recorded tracks back into Logic. Message was edited by: Jim Frazier, because he can't type worth a sh*t...
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